[UA] archetype rarity?

[Joshua Symonds]

Well, if everyone tries to get good at it, then does everyone
inadvertently channel a Parent archetype, even at low levels? I
personally don't much like the idea that practically every parent taps
into the archetype of the Father/Mother. Can they all use channels,
under duress?

Being a high-level avatar, in my mind, takes a degree of dedication
above and beyond the standard dedication that everyone shows. If
everyone is a pretty good parent, then you have to be a frighteningly
good parent. Your actions must ooze parenthood in a way that elevates
you beyond everyone else's parenting. They parent, and have lives on the
side. You Parent.

And, thus, I think that dedication is more likely to show up in the
archetypes more likely to incur adversity, such as the Mystic
Transvestite. It's more difficult to have a life on the side when you
(even inadvertently) step on the path of something so difficult to
follow. It requires more all-consuming dedication, in my mind.

To put it another way. Anyone can be a parent. It takes a certain
special type of devotion to follow other archetypes, and that devotion
makes it more likely for those people to reach high level in them.

-----Original Message-----
From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]
On Behalf Of Greg Stolze
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 11:10 AM
To: ua at lists.uchicago.edu
Subject: RE: [UA] archetype rarity?

>Many Mothers are created,
>but only a few Mothers would really try to get good at it. Conversely,
>only a few Mystic Hermaphrodites are created, but if they've started
>channeling the archetype, chances are they're obsessed about whatever
>put them on the path. It's the difference in societal adversity, I
>think. To be really dedicated to being a transvestite hooker shaman or
>something of that order requires a step more oomph than being a
>dedicated mother.

Mm, not sure I buy that.  Speaking as a fairly new parent, it IS easy to
get obsessed and trying to get really good at it is the norm, not the
exception.  I've wanted to be a writer since I was in kindergarten, but
being a writer isn't enough to get me out of bed four or more times a
night
when I'm completely exhausted.  Being a father is.  I'm not sure I'd run
back into a burning house to save the hard drive with my work on it, but
I'd run back for my son.

-G.

So, when Christopher Lee was getting direction from George Lucas, do you
suppose he just closed his eyes and pretended it was Peter Jackson?

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