Narratives aren't just used in entertainment; they are also a fundamental political tool of power to shape our perception of reality and guide it in a desired direction
The buddhists would say we all react to life through our conditioning. Here Thomas you have shown how we are conditioned by the narratives they want us to hear.
Well written! The USA's education is *at least* as bad and in some ways its far more tragic as verifiably correct truths (or at least as close as we can get to an historical truth) from our past that have been surpassed may provide a large part of what could be a viable framework for humanity to move forward from where it is at right now. After WW2, the USA's system began a multidecadal process of centralization and de-democratization, a piece of what was included in this was the informal centralization of our education system, and it, along with the rest of our centralized information ecosystem began to propagate anti democratic propaganda. The USA, for all of its faults, used to genuinely be a semi-populist, semi-politically decentralized, semi-economically decentralized, semi-culturally decentralized, and semi-scientifically decentralized republic with democratic governance structures based around its former completely different than today's versions, decentralized and publicly accessible mass-member Democratic and Republican parties of old. The so called Populist and Progressive eras were defined by a great many (hundreds) small groups, most of whom didnt refer to themselves as Populists or Progressives, forming, deliberating, and operating independently of each other who enacted policies across the entire policy spectrum, with only foreign policy excluded. This was possible because local areas an states had far more fiscal powers and it was before we foolishly consigned most of the key economic policy areas to being the sole purview of our Federal Government. And the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s New Deal Era decades was, and its frustrating because this can be thoroughly demonstrated, not a centralized technocratic dictatorship, the political and economic decentralization and democratic features persisted. The tragedy is that the Old Republic was continuously adding who could be involved, so we had a weird dichotomy in the post war decades where, during the phase space where it was dismantled and as such we were de-democratizing, groups such as African Americans were using its structures to win civil rights. Then once they won the ability to fully utilize these structures, in the 1970s we finished up dismantling them and swept the rug right out from under communities who had just achieved full democratic membership and plunged them back into being politically excluded in a de-democratized and centralized system
Nietzsche thought the christian narrative was brought down by its quest for“Wahrhaftigkeit” (truthfulness). Successful narratives backfire. Post truth is an era of increased sensibility for truth.
The buddhists would say we all react to life through our conditioning. Here Thomas you have shown how we are conditioned by the narratives they want us to hear.
Well written! The USA's education is *at least* as bad and in some ways its far more tragic as verifiably correct truths (or at least as close as we can get to an historical truth) from our past that have been surpassed may provide a large part of what could be a viable framework for humanity to move forward from where it is at right now. After WW2, the USA's system began a multidecadal process of centralization and de-democratization, a piece of what was included in this was the informal centralization of our education system, and it, along with the rest of our centralized information ecosystem began to propagate anti democratic propaganda. The USA, for all of its faults, used to genuinely be a semi-populist, semi-politically decentralized, semi-economically decentralized, semi-culturally decentralized, and semi-scientifically decentralized republic with democratic governance structures based around its former completely different than today's versions, decentralized and publicly accessible mass-member Democratic and Republican parties of old. The so called Populist and Progressive eras were defined by a great many (hundreds) small groups, most of whom didnt refer to themselves as Populists or Progressives, forming, deliberating, and operating independently of each other who enacted policies across the entire policy spectrum, with only foreign policy excluded. This was possible because local areas an states had far more fiscal powers and it was before we foolishly consigned most of the key economic policy areas to being the sole purview of our Federal Government. And the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s New Deal Era decades was, and its frustrating because this can be thoroughly demonstrated, not a centralized technocratic dictatorship, the political and economic decentralization and democratic features persisted. The tragedy is that the Old Republic was continuously adding who could be involved, so we had a weird dichotomy in the post war decades where, during the phase space where it was dismantled and as such we were de-democratizing, groups such as African Americans were using its structures to win civil rights. Then once they won the ability to fully utilize these structures, in the 1970s we finished up dismantling them and swept the rug right out from under communities who had just achieved full democratic membership and plunged them back into being politically excluded in a de-democratized and centralized system
Nietzsche thought the christian narrative was brought down by its quest for“Wahrhaftigkeit” (truthfulness). Successful narratives backfire. Post truth is an era of increased sensibility for truth.