Archive for August 2nd, 2019

Whatever the machines tell us

Whatever the machines do or tell us, we will like our stories better, and we will always be rebels.

:- Doug.

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Meaning is bigger than challenge

We seem to be the large numbers species: we think in terms of math and doing things in “scale.” The only critters who outnumber us are the insects and the microorganisms, and they still hold some sway over us.

But. Meaning still gives us a challenge.

Of course challenge is what we need. Numbers alone won’t do it. Meaning is bigger than challenge. Bigger, faster, stronger, more are what challenge is normally about. Meaning makes the challenge worth the effort.

Thus the breadcrumbs we leave in our stories ought be about meaning. So I think today.

:- Doug.

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Story shapes

What are possible shapes of a story? For starters: novels, bed time stories, plays, science, religion, dreams….

:- Doug.

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Meaning-making animal

Humanity is a meaning-making animal. This is the ultimate power. Meaning seems to be the glory, the top, and is not glory the purpose of power?

:- Doug.

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How do we–we?

How do we—we—change the course, not of history, not of the world, but of humanity? This people, this place, this now, find ourselves in a fast moving stream. We see rapids coming. What path choose?

:- Doug.

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