“Wow this person is a genius for pointing out how we are doing society incorrectly. How could anyone have guessed at this over and over again for centuries? We should teach this to our children in school and then absolutely savage them as adults for believing it.”
They wrote it down, and often in insightful, compelling ways.
I go to a Shakespeare festival every year to see plays I’ve seen before, because they make laugh, they offer new insights, new perspectives, by being presented by different directors, different actors.
Hell, all stories are the heroe’s journey - may as well stop making new stories since they’re all the same.
As an aside, Upstart Crow is a send-up of Shakespeare himself, using his own stories and methods. Same old stories, but completely new.
People need to stop saying this shit. When Joseph Campbell wrote Hero with a Thousand Faces, it was from his limited point of view and selectively chose or changed details on the subjects he picked. It wasn’t true then, and it’s even less true now.