Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Stories
Every thing's a story because if nothing happens there is no story or you. Power through story is manipulative-ability. You can tell the truth or lie outright to get what you want. We seem to find truth easier to handle in mathematics. With calculus anyone can find the story of a line--the truth of the line. But when you order a 100% beef hamburger from a restaurant how do you know it's 100% beef? The power in a story is that it has believability. If everything has an origin, then every move that thing made is a chapter, page, phrase, or word in the whole of its own story. And of course it's always happening and changing and since we're human and don't have instantaneous truth checking machines for every situation we have to have some margin of just believing. The only reason the dollar is worth a dollar is because everyone believes it is, and surely the dollar has its story.
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I think if we had truth checking machines, those suckers would indeed explode. The reason why I say that is because everyone has their own viewpoint and reality and belief of what they hear and see. I think that is why witnesses tend to relay different stories when they are interviewed by police, everyone has a different sequence of thoughts and emotions that paints a vision in their head.
ReplyDeleteEverything is a story, but I think humans have a hard time realizing this because we have a fantastical idea of a clear and chunky beginning, middle, and end. In reality, everything is interconnected weirdly and things are a bit more complicated. When you say "We have a margin of just believing", it makes me think of Pandora's box and how hope is the deadliest element at the bottom. By believing, we have hope, and although "deadly", we utilize it because it's the sole element that keeps us chugging through our own stories.