[UA] Avatar of the Chronicler?

[Eslington ~]

On 2/13/07, Russell Rayburn <rusrayburn at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/13/07, Ted Prodromou <merovingianheir at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Avatar of the Confessor, I'd say.
> > They're supposed to write down what they hear, too.
> >
>
> Nice... there a write up of that some place?


Yep. Statosphere. Great book, even if a lot of the information is reprinted
in UA2 I'd reccomend buying it for insights into the movements of the clergy
and the crunchy goodness in the form of new archetypes and rooms of
renunciation.
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Now as to the meat of this topic, I don't think our visible clergyman is an
avatar of the Chronicler or Confessor or anything. Odds are is that he's
just a crooked priest.

If we're talking about Archetypes though, you can see an interesting
phenomenon at work.
In recent years, the rise of blogs (and to a lesser extent, personal
websites) have become challenges to the Chronicler archetype.
After all, if the person who lived a story is the one who tells it, then
what need is there for an external recorder?

The Autobiographer archetype is rising in public conciousness, all across
the internet.

Fortunately for the status quo, most bloggers are still busy talking about
things outside themselves like what's on TV or which Naruto Character some
guy's quiz says they are, and those talking about themselves are tarred with
the same brush as masturbatory teenage whinejournals.

But everyone who has something interesting to say about their own life is a
chip against the foundation of the Chronicler Archetype.

 "The Guardian" is a very deliberate choice of name.
(At least, that's what a Manchester cobweb farmer once told me.)
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