my hunch is that the major problem facing the American project is (i) the dissolution of load-bearing myths, and (ii) the failure of successor myths to meet the needs satisfied by the oldpic.twitter.com/wJgytpEWXF
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my hunch is that the major problem facing the American project is (i) the dissolution of load-bearing myths, and (ii) the failure of successor myths to meet the needs satisfied by the oldpic.twitter.com/wJgytpEWXF
outstanding questions (a) why did old myths fail? hypotheses: i. they could no longer function in new social circumstances (tech, postindustrialization, globalization) ii. they no longer suited a population with, eg, changing demographics iii. they were murdered iv. ?
(b) why are successor myths inadequate? hypotheses: i. there's no consensus myth --> strife, struggle for dominance ii. new pantheon(s) need time to expand, become broad enough to fill meaning needs completely iii. they're just not very good stories iv. ?
isn't there some thing about "women are generally susceptible to advertising but recognize/admit this susceptibility, men think that they are immune/resistant to advertising and refuse to believe anything to the contrary" ?
I had a roommate who was a good guy, but when I asked him where he got his ideas from, he said that his ideas came to him apropos of nothing, without outside influence that was annoying. "you are not immune to narratives" -- just hope you get good ones that beget better ones
Invisible narrative guardrails guide our existence down our road, our thread of linearity spun from the soup of all that is.
In the long run, they're all read.
Didn't someone post this before *squints*
its all me baby
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