"Stories with that structure often have 6 secondary features. These don't always appear with the sympathetic plot, but they're common:
1. The protagonist is appealing (e.g., strong, clever, kind).
2. They are alone & suffer early misfortunes (e.g., they're orphaned or abandoned).
3. They are high-status or tied to high-status individuals (e.g., there's a prophesy about them; they're the child of royalty).
4. They journey to distant places.
5. Their opponents are formidable & repulsive.
6. Anyone who opposes the protagonist suffers or is reformed." -- manvir singh @mnvrsngh
We show that 1 individual can reverse the norm of a group of 100s, and minorities as small as 0.3% of the pop can impose their norm (current thinking assumed 10%). Call it the
@GretaThunberg effect?
How? When inds are _less prone to adopt a new norm, their group becomes weaker."
re. Twitter negative comments: sorry, it's very valuable to me. It's easy to curate: I use LIST. I have a focused list ("story") which provides great, relevant information. It seems there is a subgroup of people on Twitter who understand how to use (& how not to use) it / imo Twitter is underrated.