Wolfgang Hammer

I think you do have to know which part of it you're in.

We experience both desire and fear.

It's not just one or the other.

The hero's journey is very often a desire to rise in the world.

That's a desire to fulfill one's potential in the world.

An anxiety or a fear purged is an idea of an inherent fear of something that might happen to you that you really don't wish to happen.

And it feels good to see a version of the world play out where that which you're afraid of actually doesn't happen because you have had agency in defeating it.

And this is always really important.

So story is character and action.

Things don't happen to you.

You act against obstacles.

And as you do require knowledge, with knowledge comes power to then...

effect the outcome.

It's also interesting to see that this is never done alone.

They're always surrogates, people who give you knowledge and people who aid you in the quest, whatever the quest may be.

I have an unusual maybe view of this because I don't know if we think it needs to be enjoyable.

I think that's a recent meaning in the last 30, 40 years.

Phenomenon where storytelling became entertainment almost exclusively.

I don't think that's really the genealogy of that space at all.

But I also think story has a religious aspect.