Yancey Strickler

I really did.

I struggled with that for a long time.

And to put these words together...

Felt deeply wrong.

And then I was reading Joseph Campbell, Hero with a Thousand Faces, which is where the monomyth story comes from.

He's comp religion, studies all the major world religions.

Here's these themes.

And he has this section about the doors of transformation.

And so the hero, heroine, as they go through the journey, they go through the shit and they're at their absolute lowest point.

And it's then that they look up with this unique worldview of having eaten absolute shit, and they can see suddenly the doors of transformation.

And Campbell writes that the doors of transformation across myths, across societies, across all of these belief systems,

doors of transcendence a transformation are locked the same way and they're locked by opposites it's light and dark life and death love and hate these things that we perceive as being so opposed that there can be no space between them but what that the hero's journey shows you and what trans transcendence transformation really is perceiving the space between the opposites

And that by moving through that space and bringing them back, it brings that power to the village.

The point of the hero's journey is not the hero's benefit.

It is the village's benefit.

It is that you bring what you have learned to everyone.

And when I read that and just thought, wow, it is the power of opposites.

It's these things that if we imagine artists as becoming more powerful,

capitalistic.

That seems like the worst thing imaginable.