Thank you so much to you and

. I’m just riffing off of the great work Demi is doing here, but I’m glad if my musing can prove interesting or thought-provoking :)

Reading back over my comment, I would only add that there are obviously myriad other examples—literatures great tragedies from Aeschylus to Shakespeare to Miller, popular music inundated with tales of love lost, artistic masterpieces from Goya’s “Saturn” to Rubens’s “Proemtheus,” pretty much the entire horror genre of film…—the list of media and mediums is interminable. Conflict is built into our fundamental conceptualization of narrative itself! I think this is may be informative as to why we have the world we do, even if we did have the power to change it.

Of course, you then immediately have to grapple with the “art imitates life imitates art” loop, the different types and ideas of “conflict,” the fact that there are many reasons why someone might make such art, and any number of confounding factors, which is why I just kind of left that idea there because to really dive in would require some serious deep-sea equipment rivalling that of a Big Daddy from Bioshock, and I’m just not up for it at the moment haha