Interesting, but VERY much use of “they”, “corporations”, “controlling the masses”, etc.

Says we have been fed 3-act narratives for 2 millennia and it’s enough. We need new ways of telling a story:

“They [the Hollywood majors?] want to participate but they don’t know how. They all think they are much better at this stuff [storytelling] than they really are.
What you have to do is create a call and response, where you open the dialogue, they [the consumer?] respond, then you come back and you can open the window for their response as much as they are really ready to respond. So that’s one model. The church used it in the protestant era and it really worked.
The second thing is to think of yourself in some cases rather than as being a storyteller to be a tool creator. Create the tools and rules through which people can interact more meaningfully, through which people can create narratives together. Right? It’s like the dungeon master in an old DND [Dungeons And Dragons?] game. The dungeon master was the sort of person who sort of helped guide a story through time. And he did have absolute authority over what happened, but really what he did was created and manipulated rules to help a group of people get to the most interesting story places. Of course this story structure is different. It’s not this [three-act] narrative structure. The object of the story is not to get to the teaching moment and sleep. Right? The object of the story is to keep it going. Rather than games with winners or losers we’re looking at infinite games. The object of the game is to keep getting to play the game. That’s why they come back.
And finally, and this is the hardest thing but the most necessary thing, is for us as the professionals to create safe spaces. The job of the storyteller, instead of guiding people over that arc, is really to create the sacred circle. And that’s a hard thing to do in our society. That’s the only thing you can do with your skill. That’s the only thing really left as we evolve as a society past the teaching story, past the programming story, past solely using the male narrative arc to get to sleep or to programme ourselves to death. What we’re doing as professionals is we are creating the boundary condition through which people can go from whatever unconscious life is into this space that you’ve created, this sacred space, this trusted place, where now they can develop narrative, where now they can do story together.”

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