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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5790215" data-attributes="member: 463">Yes, I think that's exactly right.The ironic thing is that when most people who haven't ploughed through a ton of Edwards essays talk about G N & S, they actually use those terms in the earlier threefold model GDS sense - they say Narrativism, but their use of the word is identical to Dramatism.  They thus accidentally recreate a functional model out of the dysfunctional mess of GNS.  I used to correct them, but now I think they're doing it right.  The GDS split is intuitive and can actually be useful; whereas pushing people to use the correct definitions of a bad model seems like a bad idea.OTOH, Edwards is a terrible theorist but a fantastic publicist. I doubt I would even have heard of GDS if not for him and his GNS. So maybe he did a good thing, in a strange and indirect way.</blockquote>