I remember the narrative breaking, really hard, in two particular occasions:
The twin towers attack.
The 2008 mortgage financial crisis.
I don’t think, particularly, that the narrative is broken now, but I think that it has lost some of its harmony (Trump having won the 2014 elections, I believe, is a symptom of that).
This is very close to what fellows like Thiel and Weinstein are talking about. In this particular sense, yes, I understand it’s crucial to maintain the narrative although I don’t know anymore whose job it’s—to keep it from breaking out entirely (for example, say, in a explosion of the American student debt, or China going awry with its USD holdings).
These stories are not part of any law of our universe, so they are bound to break at anytime. It takes only a few smart, uncaring individuals to tear at the fabric of reality until it breaks—that is not okay!
So that it’s why I believe is happening at the macro-narrative; but to be more directed towards the individual, which is what your post seems to hint at, I don’t think for a second that your life does not run from narrative, maybe that’s a narrative itself. I believe further that some rituals are important to keep and to have an individual story is important to be able to do any work we deem important.
It may be more apt for the fifth post in his sequence (Stories About Progress) but it’s not posted yet. But I think it sort-of works in both and it’s more of a shortform comment than anything!
I remember the narrative breaking, really hard, in two particular occasions:
The twin towers attack.
The 2008 mortgage financial crisis.
I don’t think, particularly, that the narrative is broken now, but I think that it has lost some of its harmony (Trump having won the 2014 elections, I believe, is a symptom of that).
This is very close to what fellows like Thiel and Weinstein are talking about. In this particular sense, yes, I understand it’s crucial to maintain the narrative although I don’t know anymore whose job it’s—to keep it from breaking out entirely (for example, say, in a explosion of the American student debt, or China going awry with its USD holdings).
These stories are not part of any law of our universe, so they are bound to break at anytime. It takes only a few smart, uncaring individuals to tear at the fabric of reality until it breaks—that is not okay!
So that it’s why I believe is happening at the macro-narrative; but to be more directed towards the individual, which is what your post seems to hint at, I don’t think for a second that your life does not run from narrative, maybe that’s a narrative itself. I believe further that some rituals are important to keep and to have an individual story is important to be able to do any work we deem important.
(I’m not sure if you meant to reply to Benito’s shortform comment here, or one of Ben’s recent Thiel/Weinstein transcript posts)
Yes!
It may be more apt for the fifth post in his sequence (Stories About Progress) but it’s not posted yet. But I think it sort-of works in both and it’s more of a shortform comment than anything!