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Before the modern age, people were far more accepting of supernatural and/or unproven narratives about our world. Nowadays we demand evidence for anything out o
by dvdkon 2y ago
Before the modern age, people were far more accepting of supernatural and/or unproven narratives about our world. Nowadays we demand evidence for anything out of the ordinary and faeries in a purportedly realistic story would feel wrong to us. It seems natural to me that the genre of "fantasy" has emerged, to let us have unrealistic elements in stories without having to admit them into our worldwiew.
It sort of mirrors children's development, with them gradually considering fairy tale elements as less real and relegating them to stories specifically.
- d0mine 2y agoBefore the modern age, and perhaps for the vast majority even now, there is no such notion as supernatural. Magical thinking, superstition is not the exception, it is the norm. It requires conscious effort, training to diminish its effects, to introduce logic, facts into the thinking process. Propaganda would be much less effective if people were able to think rationally.