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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yeah--I'm being a little sloppy with semantics, I think your framing is better do you have a good sense of how we've grappled with past demographic waves? I have the impression it was more graceful but maybe that's just another myth :)
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