Wolfgang Hammer

You cannot have a good narrative without an active character.

There's no one that sits around and thinks their way through problems.

I think it's a combination of having a dominant worldview to fight against, of having a personal worldview to espouse, and a willingness to, through action, and I think also through quiet reflection, let those voices that perhaps are in the subconscious safely come to the surface and see where it goes without having a specific outcome in mind.

Over time,

Narrative is fear made conscious and conquered through action.

I think...

It's a technology that is able to, through consilience, so through pulling from all strands of knowledge, to communicate an ultimate concern.

So an absolute truth in the story universe.

And in such a way that the individual can understand it on an emotional, personal level, which is kind of also what philosophy has been trying to do.

And it's also what religion has been trying to do.

So in that sense, it's a technology layer of arranging situations and character in such a way

that enables this transmission.

So in that sense, storytelling is soteriological and has, as it's concerned, a form of salvation, not the form of salvation, a form of salvation.

Maybe the answer to the question, am I worthy of love?

The answer is yes.

Very often comes back to that on the emotional love.

And then very often, is it safe to die?

And the answer is, in most cases, yes.

Because it's better than the alternative.

Yes.