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Daniel Helkenn's avatar

These conflicts are becoming very difficult to follow. At the core as you point out, the same players always emerge from the shadows. Thanks for this. I’m not sure how you keep so many threads going at once.

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Karen Gordo's avatar

It's not really a juggling act. It's primarily seeing the same patterns and staging sequences everywhere. Essentially, no matter where you live you can see the narratives being shoved at us. I don't look very deep; just enough to confirm the pattern/staging repeats. Finding the major characters and connections is what is going to give us a heads up on what kind and when big earth changing kinetic plot twists are coming up. So I keep a sort of narrative tally for that purpose primarily.

I did have to develop a decent but rudimentary filing system, though. Because it was definitely slowing me down to try and juggle inside my head any more!

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Daniel Helkenn's avatar

I can get your point about repetition of events. I can kinda do it to. Where you excel is the way you can structure them and incorporate various concepts and different twists. For example the way you incorporated the NCAA tournament motif into your essay was masterful.

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