narrative change
Paul Venuto • feed updates
When we try to change the world, when we create containers for work, initiate relationships, or chart strategic paths forward, we are always battling assumptions. What myths underlie those assumptions? How can those myths be ripped out from under the lies they prop up? How can inevitability—a construct of the wicked—be ripped apart?
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
adrienne maree brown • adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life | The On Being Project
When a fact or set of facts prompts people to change course, it’s usually because someone or something has interrupted the narrative they knew and told a story that feels more true—one worth making changes over.
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
I’m reminded of the words of sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” Of course, it was also noted by philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Such a statement displays the narrative
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when you aren’t just dismantling the narrative but providing another one, you are creating a new reality for your audience.