{"id":8362,"date":"2013-09-11T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=8362"},"modified":"2021-02-20T15:01:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T09:31:25","slug":"the-narratives-that-we-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2013\/09\/11\/the-narratives-that-we-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"The narratives that we drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

It probably started with the ‘narrative’ post<\/a>, but a few things I read later made me wonder about our choices of narratives and where this could be leading to. Some narratives happen to us depending on our circumstances – time, geography etc, and some we choose of our own volition, or so it seems.\u00a0Continuing from the earlier post, I think it’d be safe to say that with a more connected world, our ability to choose narratives has been heightened. Abundance of creation, and consumption. I think this was the related fantastic little\u00a0piece of content<\/a>\u00a0that triggered this entire line of thought. It has some thoughts on material consumption, and though delivered differently, it has some profound insights as well.<\/p>\n

Partly thanks to that abundance, the noise around us has also increased, and has found better ways of being amplified. To quote Clay Shirky,<\/p>\n

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It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In fact, one could argue that compulsive consumption (material, and otherwise<\/a>) is one of the reasons for our ‘emptying out<\/a>‘. (do read) As I was writing this, I had a sense of deja vu, and some searching pointed me to this<\/a>, written 3 years back, in which I tried to figure out whether there was a middle path between a self that was driven by others’ perceptions and one that was driven by a moral compass dictated by few external stimuli. In that post, I had quoted from Paul Graham’s ‘addiction’ post<\/a>,\u201cwe will increasingly be defined by what we say no to<\/em><\/strong>\u201d I think that still holds true.<\/p>\n

In this era of abundance, what narratives should we choose to be part of? How can one be objective, is one even right by being objective? An excellent post whose advice I hope to implement more is this<\/a>. I really couldn’t disagree with any of the 30 things mentioned, it just seemed intuitively right. But I think this would serve as an excellent first lesson..<\/p>\n

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(via<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

until next time, an open and shut existence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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