Re: Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative - Archived Message
Posted by turtleman on February 4, 2019, 3:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Caitlin on the crucial relationship between fact and narrative -"
We're dealing with a society where the vast majority of people are not accustomed to serious thought. In this climate, unfortunately, one must be quite savvy in the Art of Communication to win listeners and influence thought. True, the devil uses narrative too. True, the whole society is junked up on the Spectacle. True, it is endlessly depressing to realize in order to fight the advertisers we have to be advertisers ourselves, and even if people buy the Just narrative over the devil's narrative it will be nothing but a luck of the draw whose outcomes will be utterly impermanent because people, being unaccustomed to serious thought, will remain mere spectators and consumers and round two will go right back to the devil. But if we care more about the Art itself, and love Truth even more than the world or the reader itself (Love God more than anything, including your own mother) then that should put us a few notches above the merchants and peddlers. turtleman
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