If we really think about what we really are, inside our heads, in the most elementary sense of how our minds work - we are Hunters/gatherers. That's how our brain works. If we hear a scream from somewhere we immediately became frightened. Why? Because we are programmed that way, because in our genetic code it says that we should afraid from sharp sounds because it may indicates about some danger hidden in the jungle. Although our ways of life have changed from those glorious days, the psychology of our brain still works in the same basic way. Instead of hunters, we have become consumers, service providers, and career builders.
If we think of a story, and its most basic structures throughout infinite of generations, its the dichotomy between a protogonist and an antagonist. even if there isnt a villian, that there must be some kind of a purpose. But life does not work like that right? We do not have one basic desire. We have no villain dedicated to destroying us and what we believe in. but that not the complete truth is it. we do always feel that way. That there is a a narrative to our life, the brain builds a story in a way that it believes it should be...if we go back to those essential ways of how our psychology, we find that there too is the same dichotomy. There's a hunter, and there's a pray. There is a clear goal, there is a success, or a failure.
From the time we draw on caves to the big Hollywood movies, one basic thing remains, that the most effective way - no, more that that, it's probably the only effective way to share ideas , is to make them feel about the idea, A certain journey, a certain conflict, and almost always a certain evil. It describes exactly the same basic instinct that every hunter has in his nature. In the most essential sense of being human, of being alive, we experience reality in the eyes hunters, or as prays. So when a story manages to put us in a similar situation, in a similar mental process, it works. It activates a someting deep within our imagination, within our nature.
If we think of a story, and its most basic structures throughout infinite of generations, its the dichotomy between a protogonist and an antagonist. even if there isnt a villian, that there must be some kind of a purpose. But life does not work like that right? We do not have one basic desire. We have no villain dedicated to destroying us and what we believe in. but that not the complete truth is it. we do always feel that way. That there is a a narrative to our life, the brain builds a story in a way that it believes it should be...if we go back to those essential ways of how our psychology, we find that there too is the same dichotomy. There's a hunter, and there's a pray. There is a clear goal, there is a success, or a failure.
From the time we draw on caves to the big Hollywood movies, one basic thing remains, that the most effective way - no, more that that, it's probably the only effective way to share ideas , is to make them feel about the idea, A certain journey, a certain conflict, and almost always a certain evil. It describes exactly the same basic instinct that every hunter has in his nature. In the most essential sense of being human, of being alive, we experience reality in the eyes hunters, or as prays. So when a story manages to put us in a similar situation, in a similar mental process, it works. It activates a someting deep within our imagination, within our nature.