There have been a bunch of different potential names thrown around for this phenomena, and narrativemancy always seemed like the weakest contender out of them. The Thing definitely involves narratives, don’t get me wrong, but narrativemancy is just...unaesthetic, and I feel like it misses something?
I generally refer to this idea as metamancy. I do also feel as if your approach, while solid, tends to overgeneralize, and there are times where it is instrumentally useful to temporarily believe in things that don’t cleave to reality at all.
While I agree with narrativemancy not being a great word for it, I think I dislike metamancy even more. Just a datapoint in the search for the best word for this.
I have a friend who recently complained to me about systemic misuse of the stem “meta-” and so now I’m unable to determine whether I would have been neutral or positive toward your suggestion. :/
There have been a bunch of different potential names thrown around for this phenomena, and narrativemancy always seemed like the weakest contender out of them. The Thing definitely involves narratives, don’t get me wrong, but narrativemancy is just...unaesthetic, and I feel like it misses something?
I generally refer to this idea as metamancy. I do also feel as if your approach, while solid, tends to overgeneralize, and there are times where it is instrumentally useful to temporarily believe in things that don’t cleave to reality at all.
While I agree with narrativemancy not being a great word for it, I think I dislike metamancy even more. Just a datapoint in the search for the best word for this.
I have a friend who recently complained to me about systemic misuse of the stem “meta-” and so now I’m unable to determine whether I would have been neutral or positive toward your suggestion. :/
I’m curious what examples you’d give of misuse. I certainly agree with overuse, but I only know of “metarationality” as an example of actual misuse.
edit: wait no it’s not, also I just updated hard towards approving of metarationality