disillusioned
Kraken
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TLDR: Decent/noble characters are disproportionally represented in popular fiction, and this makes it seem as if there are fewer shit people around.
I've recently made an interesting observation that I felt like sharing.
Most of us know that the better part of the population aren't terribly great people. And yet, the myth about the 'bad apples' aka the "most people aren't actually bad" meme remains pervasive even among blackpill circles.
And I have a theory as to why that is.
Basically, most of our ideas regarding what 'normal' people are like are shaped by popular media. Because that popular culture is disproportionately created by those minorities of people that are talented and not 100% worthless, they tend to have unrealistic ideas of what other people are like. They think "okay, I'm not 100% terrible so most other people probably aren't either" and that mentality influences things like writing, character design, etc. So we have a situation where a small minority of not 100% shit people are made responsible for depicting what the others are like despite not actually understanding just how fucking shit humans are.
This is why it always seems like most main characters in fiction are actually decent people, even the villain oftentimes.
The effect this has on the popular consciousness is that it creates the illusion that the actual supply of 'good' people in society is much higher than it really is, because the ordinary (and mostly shitty) person doesn't get that much representation.
I've recently made an interesting observation that I felt like sharing.
Most of us know that the better part of the population aren't terribly great people. And yet, the myth about the 'bad apples' aka the "most people aren't actually bad" meme remains pervasive even among blackpill circles.
And I have a theory as to why that is.
Basically, most of our ideas regarding what 'normal' people are like are shaped by popular media. Because that popular culture is disproportionately created by those minorities of people that are talented and not 100% worthless, they tend to have unrealistic ideas of what other people are like. They think "okay, I'm not 100% terrible so most other people probably aren't either" and that mentality influences things like writing, character design, etc. So we have a situation where a small minority of not 100% shit people are made responsible for depicting what the others are like despite not actually understanding just how fucking shit humans are.
This is why it always seems like most main characters in fiction are actually decent people, even the villain oftentimes.
The effect this has on the popular consciousness is that it creates the illusion that the actual supply of 'good' people in society is much higher than it really is, because the ordinary (and mostly shitty) person doesn't get that much representation.
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