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Compared to scientific articles though, writers haven't discovered anything new in a long while. Has there been a new archetype or plot in the last century? Al
by roenxi 3y ago
Compared to scientific articles though, writers haven't discovered anything new in a long while. Has there been a new archetype or plot in the last century?
Almost all the innovation in storytelling and communication is happening in mediums that don't lean as heavily on longform writing as literature. Case in point, if you want to look at the biggest influence on discrediting CNN's propaganda it would probably be ... Trump, on Twitter, screaming "Fake News!" endlessly. That did a lot more to undermine their brand than any academic analysis.
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- nathan_compton 3y agoI'm not disputing twitter is writing, though. I'm sure the "I only read the classics" types disdain twitter too. But I also think your comment is roughly akin to someone saying that there hasn't been anything new in theory of gravity research since the publication of GR in 1915. That might appear to be the case for lay people, but the field has made major advancements since then both in refining what is understood about GR and staking out territory on the frontier. Just because literature hasn't produce an archetype or story as durable as the the old standards (which arguably have nothing much going for them except familiarity and an appeal to the lowest common denominator) doesn't mean there hasn't been any "progress" or genuine novelty either.