False Narratives and Peanut Butter
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False Narratives and Peanut Butter
I hungered for cast-iron certainty even though I realized that I was living in a morass of uncertainty—why
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
She wrote on Hollywood and Washington, New York and Sacramento, Terri Schiavo and Martha Stewart, grief and hypocrisy and Latin American politics, and somehow it all drove toward the same point: Narratives are coping mechanisms. If we want to truly understand ourselves, we have to understand not just the stories we make up together, but the tales b... See more
Alissa Wilkinson • The Essential Joan Didion
while shared stories and singular sources of truth are comforting, they also run the risk of over-simplification and easy-to-ignore exclusion. On the face of it, it feels like the most dystopian of our existential themes — more fear than question. But what if there’s a potential upside to decentralized reality? What if the fragmentation of reality ... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
it’s easy to see why our parts may tell false stories and mistake them for the truth. Exiles, terrified by trauma, live in a wordless, innocent lie that says, The terrible thing that happened is always happening. I am still in it. Managers and firefighters live in opposing stories but make the same false claim: There is absolutely nothing wrong her
... See moreMartha Beck • Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life's Purpose
Reality exists in two places at once; within us and without us, and where the two points intersect is our mere perception of it, forever at the border of distinction and ephemerality.
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