The best place to find an abundance of archetypes of human
   personality stereotypes is to look at movies (and other forms of
   literature; but movies are easiest to access].

   If you want a REALLY QUICK way to find a bunch of archetypes, TV
   commercials have them in ABUNDANCE. 30 seconds or less, and if
   you analyze each character, they're all super-quick stereotype
   snapshots that we barely even question, due to continual
   exposure.

   Here's the funny thing: Because of how we absorb "who we are"
   primarily through relating to others' experiences (whether
   'real' or 'fictoinal') - we can live THOUSANDS of lifetimes by
   the time we're, say, 8 yrs old and have watched lots of TV.

   Each image of a person or person-like thing (Lego Movie for
   example), are templates with which we can compare ourselves with
   and against. 'is it me? is it not me?'

   At one time, perhaps it was just our family. Our pet. Maybe the
   neighborhood. Other kids once institutionalized schools started
   up.

   But with media we get thousands of examples of "what it is to be
   a person".

   With the Internet, millions.

   Not only do we define ourselves based on these archetypes, but
   we define OTHER using the same metrics.

   For some AWESOME codification of media archetypes, go to
   [1]http://tvtropes.com

   They not only outline *people types", but they also illustrate
   "life script" types.

   A lot of our unhappiness in life, is BECAUSE our lives aren't
   following "a script" that we _believed_ to be true... and not
   even REALIZING it's a script we're reading off of.

   This is the stuff I've been studying as well. FASCINATING stuff.

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   1. http://tvtropes.com/