Standing above the narrative can also be a narrative for a certain sort of person if that person rejects other narratives without checking their correctness. What are failure modes of this?
That’s my failure mode, at least with political narratives (probably other areas too). To the extent that I can influence politics, I’m not going to take that opportunity, because I (generally) disbelieve what everyone else says, but I don’t put in the time to have opinions of my own.
I think I mostly like this better than the alternatives. But I do have to put a bit of effort into remembering that not having opinions isn’t the ideal state.
Standing above the narrative can also be a narrative for a certain sort of person if that person rejects other narratives without checking their correctness. What are failure modes of this?
That’s my failure mode, at least with political narratives (probably other areas too). To the extent that I can influence politics, I’m not going to take that opportunity, because I (generally) disbelieve what everyone else says, but I don’t put in the time to have opinions of my own.
I think I mostly like this better than the alternatives. But I do have to put a bit of effort into remembering that not having opinions isn’t the ideal state.