narratives
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narratives
To play an alternate reality game is to be drawn into a collaborative project of explaining the world. It is to lose, even fleetingly, one’s commitment to what is most true in the service of what is most compelling, what most advances a narrative one deeply believes.
Jon Askonas • Reality Is Just a Game Now
ARGs can keep going because there are a myriad of possible solutions to puzzles in the game world. Debunking only ever eliminates one small set of narratives, while keeping the master narrative, or the idea of it, intact.
The New Atlantis • Reality Is Just a Game Now
Well written piece that perfectly describes the meta crisis
Expanding Our Cultural Reference Points
society.mirror.xyz
People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accumulation of every second we’ve lived; they’re the narrative that we assembled out of selected moments. Which is why, even when we’ve experienced the same events as other individuals, we never constructed identical narratives: the criteria used for selecting moments were different
... See moreTed Chiang • Exhalation: Stories
As the world around us becomes increasingly complex, chaotic, and confounding, writing remains one of the most reliable tools we have to root ourselves into more truthful, nourishing lives. Carefully crafted words help us unearth and resolve the self-sabotaging stories stewing in our subconscious. They act as a beacon, beckoning us towards who
... See more“You are not alone across time.”
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