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Netflix, or sentimental education

2021-02-27T01:28:36.321Z


The mass narrative of the present, the television series, uses the old invention of the hero to transfuse us with the emotions and behaviors that we must observe


Marcin Dorocinski and Anya Talyor-Joy, in an instant from the seventh chapter of 'Lady's Gambit' PHIL BRAY / NETFLIX / NETFLIX

Perhaps the most influential invention of our civilization is that of the hero.

At least since the

Iliad

, mass stories have made use of this technical marvel and that mechanism so deeply rooted in the human psyche that is mimesis, to educate the population emotionally and morally, which is no small thing ...

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