I always get a chuckle when people treat history (shit happening) as History (this seemingly quasi-divine thing that underpins the course of the universe).
I think it is kind of what happens when you kill God, but didn't quite finish God off.
Do not confuse the stuff that happened, is happening, and will happen with the narrative you want…
I always get a chuckle when people treat history (shit happening) as History (this seemingly quasi-divine thing that underpins the course of the universe).
I think it is kind of what happens when you kill God, but didn't quite finish God off.
Do not confuse the stuff that happened, is happening, and will happen with the narrative you want to tell yourself and others about it.
One is the result of a complex of interactions so far reaching and often invisible and obscure it is almost meaningless to talk about causation or it having a course or overarching structure and the other is...
a story.
Stories ARE important (to humans--it is what makes us human). We can't disregard them. But we also need to be aware of their nature and limitations WRT reality.
I always get a chuckle when people treat history (shit happening) as History (this seemingly quasi-divine thing that underpins the course of the universe).
I think it is kind of what happens when you kill God, but didn't quite finish God off.
Do not confuse the stuff that happened, is happening, and will happen with the narrative you want to tell yourself and others about it.
One is the result of a complex of interactions so far reaching and often invisible and obscure it is almost meaningless to talk about causation or it having a course or overarching structure and the other is...
a story.
Stories ARE important (to humans--it is what makes us human). We can't disregard them. But we also need to be aware of their nature and limitations WRT reality.
Do not mistake the story for the thing.
You never really kill God; you just change his name to something else.