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by blueflow 813 days ago
That something is widely popular for millenia does not prove its truthfulness. Mythology and legends are still fiction.

> You might as well say "everything is subjective, there is no truth".

Strawman. I'm criticising this specific kind of thing as fiction, not everything in general.

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Fictional on a surface level. A depiction of fundamental human archetypes if you see beyond it.

And it can't be a strawman as I misrepresented nobody.

If you want to find out what the human archetypes are, you have to measure real people for specific properties and look if there are patterns. Myers & Briggs did that in 1944, their ideas got popular but are not uncontroversial.

"Seeing behind fiction" is a bad excuse, the only thing you will get is your own imagination.