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Category Archives: Narrative
The Human Need For Narratives
We love emotionally satisfying stories, but many, if not most emotionally satisfying stories about public issues are distorting our understanding of reality. Is this true? What are some examples? Grok says: Yes, it’s likely true that emotionally satisfying stories about … Continue reading
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Who Determines The Winning Narrative? (6-16-24)
01:00 Who determines the winning narrative? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15558303:00 Christian nationalism as niche construction, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15545905:00 LEADERSHIP LAB: The Craft of Writing Effectively, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM10:00 Electronic Intifada: How the Gaza genocide will lead to Israel’s collapse, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7qO9fGYZA41:20 Dooovid joins, https://x.com/RebDoooovid42:00 The stories we tell … Continue reading
What Determines The Winning Narrative?
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” (Thucydides) The dominant determine our dominant narratives. When the dominant change, our narratives change. We have different narratives under Donald Trump than under Joe Biden or Barack … Continue reading
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Discourse, Reality, and the Culture of Combat
Historian John A. Lynn wrote in 2005: Historians need to differentiate between the reality of war and die way in which a culture conceives of war: between the concrete and the conceptual. At die conceptual pole, the term ‘discourse’ signifies … Continue reading