The WGA Strike Was Caused by Joseph Campbell

A pet theory.

A screenshot from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.

Joseph Campbell was a guy who wrote a book called The Hero With a Thousand Faces, where he argued that all the myths, legends, folk and fairy tales of the world followed a similar pattern. He dubbed the pattern, “the monomyth” and in it, delineated a cast of recurring archetypes. He borrowed the archetypes from psychiatrist Karl Jung (who stole the idea from Sabina…