practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any narrative influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct storyteller
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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
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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. ?
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these are not easily testable hypotheses rather potential metastories
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so i and ii do have content another way of stating the first is, "people stopped telling these stories because external factors like globalization, digitalization in the workforce, et al reshaped society to the point that the old stories were no longer useful"
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the second, "old stories centered some demographic in a way that excluded other demographics, and now demographic change leaves a lack of some necessary (for that story) consensus"
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