Re: Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative - Archived Message Posted by dovetailjoint on February 4, 2019, 2:56 pm, in reply to "Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative -" I seem to remember that the Guardian's Luke Harding said that he was essentially 'a storyteller' too and was rounded on for his trouble. Our culture has changed and moved on from the structures of old. Today almost everything within our media and public discourse is linked to 'entertainment' in various guises. Personally, I think these changes are highly problematic, to put it mildly. Narrative is now, apparently, all. This is rather dangerous because it can easily come to mean that the best narrative or storyteller... wins the public's attention, and this doesn't mean that the story is actually, True, only that it's the best story told in the most entertaining way. My wife complains that her students know next to nothing about the ghastly realities behind nuclear weapons, their incredible destructive power. Huge bombs that are capable of wiping entire cities off the map in mere seconds. In as little as half an hour all of Europe's major cities; London, Berlin, Paris, Moscow, Warsaw... could be turned into piles of smoking ash along with the tens of millions of human beings that live in these cities across the continent of Europe. Surely the 'left' has a major share of the responsibility for this dire state of affairs, the collosal ignorance and lack of knowledge? Somehow the left's narrative has failed badly. I think we're looking at far deeper and wider cultural malaise, where the population has been woed and groomed by 'entertainment' or bread and circuses, into a lulled state of apathy and pasivity, a dreadful post-modern dreamworld. Message Thread: Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative - - Rhisiart Gwilym February 4, 2019, 9:28 am One of Caitlin's best this - - David Macilwain February 4, 2019, 12:21 pm Re: Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative - - dovetailjoint February 4, 2019, 2:56 pm Re: Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative - - turtleman February 4, 2019, 3:30 pm P.S. - turtleman February 4, 2019, 3:34 pm Could be a mistake T - the other lot mention God all the time... - David Macilwain February 5, 2019, 12:32 am Re: Could be a mistake T - the other lot mention God all the time... - turtleman February 5, 2019, 3:16 am Re: Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative - - Bluefool February 4, 2019, 3:33 pm Re: Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative - - dovetailjoint February 4, 2019, 4:14 pm   Searching