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Why Do We Keep Telling the Same Stories? Archetypes in Pop Culture

"Archetypes aren't just storytelling tools—they're reflections of us. We keep retelling them because they help us feel understood."

https://www.thecollector.com/archetypes-pop-culture/

Books by Jung at PG:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/44679

Odysseus und Nausicaa

Painting of Odysseus und Nausicaa by Carl Fielgraf. Odysseus is sitting on a rock with a cloth around him, and he is about to drink from a bowl. He is looking at Nausicaa who is standing and pointing to the right. A servant kneels at the foot of Odysseus and is offering him a bowl of fruit.

📢 WJDS Special Issue: "Well-Being in the Digital World" is out now.

Five interdisciplinary papers explore how digital technologies affect user well-being, covering dark patterns, online mental health support, eudaimonic virtues, technostress, and digital disconnection. Open access to all papers here:

➡️ https://ojs.weizenbaum-institut.de/index.php/wjds/issue/view/5_3

via Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society

Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society. Special Issue "Well-Being in the Digital World"

[P] There are days when it hits me like a truck just... how much group narcissism and group sociopathy are clearly collective neurotypical traits, where biologically-wired dutiful tribalism occupies the space held by empathy and morality in neurodivergents. I was just reading a game's story about a mother who kindly asked the "heroes" to not to meddle in her attempts to save her son. The "heroes" denied her. Why?

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DATE: December 12, 2025 at 07:00AM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG

TITLE: Chopstick Robot Building Kit Delighting Underfunded STEM Classes Around the World

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/chopstick-robot-building-kit-delighting-underfunded-stem-classes-around-the-world/

In Singapore, a pair of self-described “tinkerers” have made headlines around the world for their simple educational toy set to help low-income families introduce their children to robotics. More than just robotics, the stick-in-socket building set encourages kids to manifest the wonders they create in their minds, so long as they can be made with […]

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[P] It's sincerely concerning how large a body of readers have difficulty separating out setting and story. These two things are not the same. I saw a recent discussion on whether things should be dragged out or wrapped up and it lead to so much confused language. I mean, protip: You don't need to put an entire reality through armageddon and nullification to end a story. A story can end and the Universe goes on. Conflating the two is bizarre.

This week's at the library: @princetonupress has a 70% off sale at the moment! I bagged myself four fascinating books:
- The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences
- The Network of Life: A New View of
- Zero to Birth: How the Human Brain Is Built
- Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time

@bookstodon

A photo of four books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books, part of the beech-coloured laminate floor, and a red curtain covering the door. From left to right, we have: - The Mirror and the Mind, which divides its cover into a white and silver-coloured half and plays tricks by mirroring the title and author name; - The Network of Life, showing a close-up of a leaf's vein pattern, the colours grading from yellow through green to blue; - Zero to Birth, which shows a diagram of a human embryo inside the capital B of Birth, and the outline of a human brain in coloured dots that are connected by many lines; - and Long Problems, which shows a dark blue background with the title in bold white letters, printed at a ninety-degree angle and narrowing towards the top, imitating the Star Wars title crawl.

"How to want things again"

Substack article I found, and feel like it's worth consideration. I don't agree with all of it, but found it an interesting read.

How to break the doom scrolling dopamine habits, and "want things" again.

https://archive.is/SgZPc