i'm not aware of any definition of story that requires it have those elements, or they be presented in that order.
you have a very narrow definition of what a story is, and seem to think anything outside of that structure is bad or wrong.
i mean you can define a car however you want. doesn't mean other people have to drive such cars or agree with you. definitions change. is a semi truck a car? it has all those qualities. but i wouldn't call it a car and i'd considerate to have zero overlap with operating a car, hence why operating trucks often requires a CBD and not a regular drivers license.
I'm guessing you never took a college level film class? I took several. A lot of the movies we watched, and I've seen seen outside of class, don't subscribe to your definition of story at all. I still very much enjoyed them and thought some of them were far superior to marvel movies.
people behave according to incentives that reward certain behaviors, and punish others.
i used to work in policy. good policy gets you voted out of office, and makes everyone hate you. You don't get rich from pursuing a broad-based policy that improves the lives of your constituents. a lot of people i met... were smart and open about this. there was no reason to be a 'good' politician because nobody pays you for it, and the voters tend to vote you out for it.
there are some cases where that isn't true, of course. but usually limited to smaller districts/states with more homogeneous populations
is it? I see a lot of calls to violence in left wing spaces. and I've had violence direct at myself by so called left wing people.
Are you sure it's exclusively a problem of right wing people? do you not recall Charlie Kirk? most leftists seem to see nothing wrong with his murder, because he 'deserved it'.
i've been politically active for almost 25 years, and I've seen violence and death called for by everyone. the only major difference is who they want to be the victim(s) of that violence.
sorry what are we talking about now? now we are talking about Christian Zionists?
I thought we were talking about chuck schumers support as a senator of a state with the largest jewish population in the USA and why he gets lots of money for being pro israeli in that state?
There is no such thing as the trans community. There are trans people of all different beliefs and identities. Some trans people hate other trans people.
Trans community is something people impose on them to force them into a collective group so they can grand stand about them.
I don't support them, because I'm not egotistical enough to think I speak for them. I let people speak for themselves. Some trans people I've known were cool. Others were total shitbags of human beings who were violent and abusive towards other people.
what is so mystical and magical about guns to you? that you think they are a special thing?
I can also murder people with kitchen knives, btw. plenty of domestic and non-domestic violence involves knives.
i have a non-chalant attitude towards guns because I'm familiar with them. i also have a dog. some people who don't have dogs freak out around my dog because they are afraid of dogs.
it is about me, and about you. it's about everyone. I used to teach. funniest part of it was people think it was a some sort of deep revelation when they learned something.
You just went full circle and now are arguing in support of what I originally claimed.
You're just mad I didn't spout off specific incidents and made some grandiose claim that one incident is the 'root' of all of this.
You are just being petty and trying to 'one up' me. Yeah, it's a ad hominim attack, because you're attacking me for an ad hominem reason. You don't like the way I said something.
I don't regard you argument as nuanced at all. I regard it as crude and biased to living memory as if our current atrocities are somehow unique and special, they aren't. Americans always have hated each other and should out internal enemies amongst their fellow citizens. The enemy just changes over time, but there is always one.
This is why the left in this country is such a joke. lots of petty people trying to 'have the better argument' rather than just shut up and agree. or worse, trying to be 'more enlightened' about an issue, or 'more woke' or whatever buzzword virtue status bullshit they are chasing for clout.
sorry, do you think all stories must be a certain way? or subscribe to a certain structure?
i mean, there are lots of different types of cars. a monster truck isn't for travel, not is drag strip racer.
No, I'm just not a twat who threatens people with violence with they have a different perspective. Do you want to go beat the crap out of Stanley Kubrick because he didn't make the movie you wanted him to make? Does it offend you that thinks you don't like or enjoy, exist?
You can't stop it from happening. Anymore than you can stop yourself from needing oxygen to breathe. Reality is limited, people are limited. My perspective is rare and only a product of certain luxuries that many people don't and will never have and many people are totally hostile to my perspective to the point they'd kill me if they could.
I've been threaten with violence and physically attacked by people on the right and the left for my own viewpoints. Because violence is a great way to silence people who are different than you. Reason I left reddit was because I was constantly being banned for my perspectives that human beings are what they are and there is no changing us into beings of perfect good, and believing you are a being of perfect good is the more surefire way for you to justify violence and evil upon others.
I just pursue my own good and focus on what I value as bettering myself. Other people disagree with me deeply about that and often tell me that I'm a stupid idiot for not doing what they think I should be doing, which is mostly agreeing with them and validating their choices and beliefs. But my choices come at a cost, I don't get to 'belong' or be a part of any tribe because I won't pursue the party line of 'us vs them' and people think I'm a selfish-jerk for not doing so. Even in personal relationships, I refuse to see the world in 'us vs them' terms and it drives my partners insane because to them the point of a family is to form a unit to 'protect' itself from the 'evils' outside of the unit.
I mean if you truly feel that way, you will be rejected forever. Because people naturally want to form exclusionary groups and they don't like people who want inclusion.
Yes, but they get rejected by society largely, because people don't like people who don't want to be a part of the tribe.
And you want everyone to die. Because everyone wants someone to die. If not physically, at least spiritually.
What you don't get is that anti-queer people see queer people as a existential threat. Hence why they are very motivated. You want to say they are crazy and delusional, and they are, but that doesn't mean their feelings aren't real. They very much believe queer people are going to steal their children if they don't stop them.
Even if tomorrow trans people stopped being an issue, there would be some new group to cause controversy over or who wants recognition that isn't getting it.
In my town there are now debates over the legalization of polyamory, for example. Because here queer/trans issues are largely over and done with. One city in my state legalized it, but it's such a tiny minority of people it's not a big deal yet. Also, since only one town legalized it, it has no broad hold on state-wide laws or institutions. It just means that they allow you plural filing of marriage licenses in the town clerk office and town employees can have their multiple spouses covered under healthcare, etc. And knowing some poly people... they love to go on about how society oppresses an is unfair to them and how monogamy is evil.
And yes, there will always be backlashes. That's how people are. The answer to your question is to just... campaign better. Liberals/leftists don't really fight, because they don't really believe. People on the right, fight and believe, and have been fighting for decades. They simple care more about being against you and thus they tend to rally more support. They fought against abortion for decades and decades and the left mostly didn't care about it, so they lost.
the liberals fought in the 1960s and won. then largely chilled out for the next 50 years and the conservatives started being the belligerent and winning and the left has been on the defensive ever since.
So is driving a car. Is driving a car stupid and pointless then?
I got a gun because I want a gun. Just like I have a car because I want a car. I barely use my car, but it's sure awesome to have one when I need it and a lot better to have it and not need it than to not have one at all.
I'm not campaigning against ICE. I am not under any delusions of grandeur here that my .22 pistol is going to stop what is going on. It's for target shooting and being halfway decent when i go shoot guns with my family on the holidays.
i'm not aware of any definition of story that requires it have those elements, or they be presented in that order.
you have a very narrow definition of what a story is, and seem to think anything outside of that structure is bad or wrong.
i mean you can define a car however you want. doesn't mean other people have to drive such cars or agree with you. definitions change. is a semi truck a car? it has all those qualities. but i wouldn't call it a car and i'd considerate to have zero overlap with operating a car, hence why operating trucks often requires a CBD and not a regular drivers license.
I'm guessing you never took a college level film class? I took several. A lot of the movies we watched, and I've seen seen outside of class, don't subscribe to your definition of story at all. I still very much enjoyed them and thought some of them were far superior to marvel movies.