{"id":503,"date":"2021-09-08T14:17:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2024-11-11T08:49:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T08:49:01","slug":"mystery-turkish-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/mystery-turkish-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Turkish Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkish mystery theater<\/h1>\n

how much do we understand? <\/h4>\n

Does it matter? <\/h4>\n

How much of a story do you even need to understand? Last night was the first \u201cMystery Turkish Theater\u201d. We watched classic Turk comedy movie in Turkish, with Turkish subsite titles.<\/p>\n

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CHILDLIKE QUALITIES<\/strong><\/h4>\n

What struck me was the frustration of understanding only bits and pieces of the dialog. My significant other was able to help fill in some gaps, but it reminded me of watching annoying television my parents and old siblings growing up. When I was a kid, their programs didn’t make any sense. Why did they want to stare at two people talking about nothing?<\/p>\n

\u201cWE\u2019LL BE RIGHT BACK\u201d<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Setting week-night programming aside, my big television day was Saturday. Saturday Morning Cartoons<\/em> was a vital ritual for kids in the 80s. There was a conspiracy to draw us kids out of our parents\u2019 hair on their first morning off from the work week. Our parents knew we were occupied and sitting in one place doing nothing dangerous. Although I have no testimony to support this suspicion, I do suspect this provided time for parents to enjoy each other’s company.<\/p>\n

So hot they\u2019re cooool!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This suspicion is further supported by the ritual breakfast that accompanied Saturday Morning Cartoons:<\/em> Pop Tarts(tm)\u2014the one meal a child of four could safely make on their own, which means parents didn’t need to even get out of bed.<\/p>\n

IN STORES NOW!<\/strong><\/h4>\n

But there was more to this conspiracy. It went beyond the parents. Advertisers knew exactly when a captive audience of children were staring at their media. In the post-Star Wars<\/em>, age, every children’s television show was effectively one long advertisement for merchandise that accompanied that show, be it, Transformers<\/em>, GI Joe<\/em>, or My Little Pony<\/em>. Each show was explicitly created not to entertain, but to create backstories for toys that children would demand their parents buy, so we kids could enact the stories.<\/p>\n

KIDS WANT AGNECY<\/strong><\/h4>\n

What we kids want most is to be in<\/em> the story. Stories are how we learn\u2014they lead to understanding and meaning. For a child, understanding is our purpose. The common world is a very confusing place with many layers of cultural complexity. Stories are how we learned about all that complexity. The most powerful learning mode is to do, to act out the story.<\/p>\n

THE PLEASURE OF UNDERSTANDING<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This is the big difference between play centered on fantasy and play focused on physical activity. The latter is activating the body in a laborious way, and it just feels good to be alive to dance, to run, tumble, to be in your body. Pleasure is rooted in the body by its very nature.<\/p>\n

Fantasy play is another kind of pleasure. Both kinds of play trigger neurochemical rewards in the brain. This is why people will read the news incessantly, or watch TED talks into the wee hours each night.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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