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Do you think Taylor Swift's life inspired the Hanna Montana show, or the show gave Taylor Swift a template to follow, or is it a Jungian archetype that inevitably occurred because history was ready? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (9 children)

Taylor Swift started out around the same time as the Hannah Montana show, so not that one.

Taylor Swift and her team have too much business savvy to follow a 00s Disney show as a template, so not number two.

Trying to cram real life people and things into "jungian archetypes" is reductionist and the online, self-taught philosophist bro's version of astrology.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 11 months ago (8 children)

Two people thought of evolution at the same time, independently. Two people thought of calculus at the same time. At the right time.

Sometimes history is just ready for a thing to happen, and it happens. Maybe I muddied the water with my talk of archetypes. I think we can have the best of both worlds here.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People have recognized that species changed over time since the BC era. There are records of such from the Latin/Greek area and the Islamic area and Chinese area. Two dudes didn't magically come up with evolution from scratch at the same time.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago

Of course you're right. It was the mechanism for change, namely Natural Selection, that was discovered.

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