Warren Smith

And if you question that process, you know, you don't understand where and this is how it's always been done.

This is the industry standard.

And you're going to find that in regardless of what industry you're in, you'll come across that in some capacity.

And that's what I think what fostered my interest in kind of critical thinking, but questioning industry.

The industry standard, the way it always is, because you, you will find over and over again, these practices that don't make sense.

They're not rational and people just do it anyways.

Yeah, and this goes back to the idea of postmodernism, how it has infected this, because in postmodernism, there are no eternal archetypes.

Archetypes are solely the result of what we have been conditioned to value, according to them.

It's the opposite view that these archetypes resonate with something deeply ingrained within us.

It's already there.

It's not a social construct.

Post-modernism, everything is a social construct, all our values.

And just that dynamic has a radical impact on narrative structure.

Snow White, for example, they think that they can now mold it and manipulate it to whatever they want and have it because it has equal value if we say it does.

Right.

And then you combine that with because production costs are rising, they are less likely to take gambles on original IP.

So they just keep doubling down on pre-established IP for business reasons.

Good question.

I probably, I did not notice it until arriving at graduate school, but it was, which was 2016, but it was law.

It had to have been before then, but I wasn't paying attention to it.