Once upon a time I was telling somebody how some folks travel the world but it's as if they've never left their living rooms because of how little their experience with people or worldview grew. i think of the travelers in history, for example, western travelers to the ottoman empire, who when they came back only painted chicks in harems or bathhouses. Like ok, you couldn't go to a library or a forest or a shrine? you travel the world to check out the chicks cuz that's all that's in your mind, and then you go back to your people with all these stories, and that's the lens through which they're seeing another people? So basically, when you're listening to a story or looking at a piece of art, like hello, pay attention to who is the messenger. Because they could be a total shallow idiot. No one's lens is the same, and yes you can tell how someone sees the world and what they'll seek out anywhere by what they do and say on a normal basis, so don't tell me that one narrative is of equal quality to another.