Stories are impossible, but it’s impossible to live without them. That’s the mess I’m in. –Filmmaker Wim Wenders Progressive storytellers looking to advance transformational change have a problem. The problem is melodrama, our culture’s dominant mode of story. A virtuous hero overcomes obstacles and saves an innocent victim from an evil villain. Melodrama is fundamentally [...]
The Mess We’re In: The Challenge of Melodramocracy |
| By: Glenn W. Smith Sunday March 7, 2010 9:30 am |


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