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also, what people need to learn is that it's not just 'white men'. the idea is that the people who run society take all the positive credit for the state of society, and most stories are in service of this image of them. Odysseus is not a slave, for example, or John Galt is not a woman for example, etc. It's just that white men were seen as the face of this 'main character represents the leaders and their values' edit: all this to say that what the video gets right for me is that, basically, the only reason that this comparison is possible is because the hero is always an image of the powers that be, which is why that lends itself to repetition

which ironically becomes its own metanarrative anyway, which is why the author of the video is doing the exact same thing...