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A Story to Bind Us: The Intellectual Deep Web and a New Grand Narrative
- finding new ways to connect and have authentic, generative conversation to make sense of complexity - whether cultural or personal - is more important than it’s ever been.
from The Sensemaking Companion: Section II by Alexander Beiner
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- Internet subcultures, by contrast, are building grand narratives and meme worlds that help people feel their way through the chaos that’s currently unfolding. These stories cut deep, down to the most foundational questions of race and religion and destiny. We shouldn’t be too surprised that complex conspiracy theories, intergenerational trauma, and... See more
from The garden of forking memes: how digital media distorts our sense of time by Aaron Z. Lewis
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- I feel we're all slowly coalescing towards some kind of increasingly complex state of memetic symbiosis. That we're in the process of forming a thriving web of sensemakers, meta-theorists and systems poets who are all increasingly connected to communities of like minds in our bioregions and simultaneously attuned to a global network of shared insig... See more
from The Liminal Web: Mapping An Emergent Subculture Of Sensemakers, Meta-Theorists & Systems Poets by Joe Lightfoot
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