okay ive learned why this thing keeps being relevant, i thought it was an implication, which i could be misreading, that adhering to the hero's journey inherently makes a story better, but apparently in the 1980s there was literally a white guy at disney (not even joe campell, notably) saying "here is a checklist for writing good stories, use this" which has just confirmed so many of my suspicions and opinions about this thing. the heros journey is worthless for categorization or analysis of stories, dont talk about it
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For what it's worth, in my college literature classes (late 90's) Joseph Campbell was treated as a complete joke. He was good at research but his attempts to draw conclusions based on that research were ridiculous overgeneralizations that made for great soundbites and nothing else.
I have no idea if this is the current attitude towards Campbell, or whether it was universal, but that's what was there at the time.
im so glad that academics share my opinion that he was the d-tier youtube video essayist of his time
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