Netflix Revelations - You Worship 'the Story' because of 'the Toy' because of 'the Story' because of ...

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"The Toys that Made Us" is ... the song (starting at 2:21 in the video at the link below) describes. I've seen a few of the episodes--the one about the STAR WARS-toys, about the Transformers-toys, about the STAR TREK-toys, and now about the LEGO-toys--and it kinda hit me that 'this is an EXACT replica of the way "prophets" work!' See, most of these toys are advertised by 'stories' (that is---as 'high-quality' as the movies-&-cartoons might be without the toys, the productions remain nothing-but ads for the toys!) What happens: a toymaker brings a toy (or toy-line) to a writer, and has the writer come up with a story featuring the toy (or toy-line); the story inspires the toymaker to develop additional toys, the additional toys inspire additional story, and so on. (And in case you can't see the parallel: suppose a writer saw some miraculous occurrence, and was inspired to make it a character in a story, the story inspired people to recreate and see the miracle again, and that inspired the writer (now a prophet) to write additional story, and so on.) Wow. Just Wow.