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I always thought The Little Mermaid something of a horror story!

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I have an old-school copy of that story. As you do, I started reading it to my son. I skipped ahead and thought... Hang on. So she sacrifices everything for this idiot prince who then rejects her and then she gets her sisters to sacrifice their hair too, also for this idiot prince, and then he marries someone else and she dies in pain and alone.

So I shut the book and said.. er... Let's play some Lego!

Keep up the good work Prof & don't feel bad for taking a break.

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One of the things you might consider is sending out links to your other writing or media appearances here on Substack. I’m interested in your writing anywhere it’s published.

On that note, here’s a link to our host on the great Heterodorx podcast:

https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-73-walking-the-talk-with-doc-stock/

The Little Mermaid analogy is very apt. There’s so much magical thinking involved in this. It’s not really malicious in most cases, but it makes very little sense, and only the addition of more magical elements can somewhat pull the story together. And like all fairy tales, there’s little thought for what happens beyond the end of the story.

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Is this 'fairy tale' a description of Gnostic Expressive Individualism?

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