[UA] Stereotypes and archetypes

[Matthew Rowan Norwood]

> Greg Stolze makes a distinction between the two –types:
> 
> Stereotypes are found in literature and movies and popular culture in general.
> 
> Archetypes are found in history.

Do you still stand by that distinction, Greg? The UA archetypes (e.g.
Masterless Man, Flying Woman, Pilgrim, Fool) seem much more fiction-
than fact-inspired. Surely you'll agree that REAL people in history
never fit into neat little categories like this, and that they can only
do so insofar as they allow their lives to be fictionalized and
mythologized.

-Matt Norwood

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