Intro
Stories are not “content.” They are a technology of meaning: they compress experience into pattern, train attention, and make values legible without slogans.
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Critique
What modern storytelling often forgets about meaning.
Attention is the real currency
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Values are learned through consequence
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Empathy is perspective under pressure
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- Meaning comes from patterned attention, not from “themes.”
- Character is a value-system under stress: choices reveal hierarchy.
- Myth is compressed moral reality — a shared orientation tool.
Fix
How to write (or judge) stories that actually build meaning.
Make consequences real
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Use structure as a meaning engine
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Embodied values, not speeches
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Impact
What “meaning” does to a person — and to a culture.
Shared orientation
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The interior life
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Restoration after collapse
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