Value valenced stuff is autocorrelated: bad with bad, good with good, etc.
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Date: November 19th, 2022 9:03 AM Author: Razzle Property Mediation
In fact, one could venture that "values" just are our identification of Things that cluster together and produce similar kinds of effects. Thus, there's a lot of ruin in a nation; truly and obviously Good Things/People are better than we suppose, while obvious and apparently Bad things/People are worse, etc.
There is a great tendency in modern society, though, to suspect that there must be some intrapersonal balancing of scales; the ugly duckling who turns out not to be a swan after all but just ugly when he grows up must have some compensating gift, however hard to discern, or so people suppose.
This supposition is wrong. Things balance in stories because it's surprising, and stories need an element of surprise, but it would not be surprising if the gun introduced in the first act goes unfired in the last, or if the ugly hunchback whom everyone reviles turns out to be boring, dull, insipid, and ugly on the inside, as well.
"Life's as simple as it looks."
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5238283&forum_id=2#45516327) |
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