> it’s obvious that, despite exceptions, most stories portray “goody-baddy” dynamics This is simply not true. At all. Sure, good vs bad is a very simple narrat

> it’s obvious that, despite exceptions, most stories portray “goody-baddy” dynamics This is simply not true. At all. Sure, good vs bad is a very simple narrative and so is commonly used, especially in things like children's stories. But the whole form of Greek Tragedy is based on the idea that bad things happen to good people. That there are no "goodies and baddies". Fortune gives and fortune takes away. Some of the most popular and retold stories in Western literature are not good vs bad. There are no "good guys and bad guys" in Romeo of Juliet, To Build a Fire, The Gift of the Magi, etc There are, of course, challenges. But those challenges are not evil or bad. They are just the human (or natural) condition. Childlike minds might demand a good guy vs bad guy narrative, but it's not universal. In fact, I would wager that many of the hunter-gatherer societies that the author hand-waves away as simplistic have very complex story-telling mythology and cannon.