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That story stirred up some stuff in me because it felt uncomfortably similar to an experience I had last year. Put me in a weird mood the rest of the day. And all because I really liked the gimmick they used to market Arc Symphony:https://www.polygon.com/2017/5/15/15640938/what-is-arc-symphony-ps1-jrpg …
I don't have a good articulation of the common thread. Something about fighting over who gets to control the narrative. Or about the trouble you run into trying to reduce everything to good guy / bad guy, or abuser / victim. Still percolating on this.
One more: a few weeks ago there was a school shooting in Colorado. I don't think many left-leaning people have heard about it, because it's really narratively uncomfortable: one of the shooters was a trans boy:https://nypost.com/2019/05/09/inside-the-online-posts-of-colorado-shooting-suspect-maya-mckinney/ …
Perhaps this is pointing to unreliability of labels and narratives in general—reminds me of Sarah’s thread on seeing horror/beauty in ecological contexts. I find myself trying to deal with the ambiguity over and over as well
Skepticism towards metanarratives is already typical postmodernism, skepticism towards personal/human narratives on the other hand...just the next step? If we’re already lost and nihilistic w/o metanarratives, what would it take to accept ambiguity in personal narrative?
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