It is the stories we tell that MAKE us human. It is the quintessential difference between human and animal. Animals live in the moment, humans rarely live in the moment--we are most usually in the past or future.
The stories we tell to explain why we are here.
The stories we tell to explain who we are--and, more importantly, that MAKE us …
It is the stories we tell that MAKE us human. It is the quintessential difference between human and animal. Animals live in the moment, humans rarely live in the moment--we are most usually in the past or future.
The stories we tell to explain why we are here.
The stories we tell to explain who we are--and, more importantly, that MAKE us what/who we are.
The stories we tell so that we can see where we are going (even though we rarely actually get there).
The jumps in logic are often NOT visible to the person telling the story. The inconsistencies and contradictions--because we tell the stories and rarely think about them or critique them.
It is kind of like trying to teach someone something that you know EXTREMELY well or are EXTREMELY good at... and you can't understand why they aren't getting it (because you left out a LOT of things that you never even think about, though perhaps you once did).
It is the stories we tell that MAKE us human. It is the quintessential difference between human and animal. Animals live in the moment, humans rarely live in the moment--we are most usually in the past or future.
The stories we tell to explain why we are here.
The stories we tell to explain who we are--and, more importantly, that MAKE us what/who we are.
The stories we tell so that we can see where we are going (even though we rarely actually get there).
The jumps in logic are often NOT visible to the person telling the story. The inconsistencies and contradictions--because we tell the stories and rarely think about them or critique them.
It is kind of like trying to teach someone something that you know EXTREMELY well or are EXTREMELY good at... and you can't understand why they aren't getting it (because you left out a LOT of things that you never even think about, though perhaps you once did).