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Seasons: new cultures, new worlds

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Narratives[1] are the consensus mechanism of the subjects of society by the objects of art, politics, religion, and economy. Individually, stories are the forms that relate meaning to our experiences, and guide action. We live in and relate by stories. We think the way we think and do the way we do partly because of things that have been said to us by stories of the past, and by what we say now in reply[2]. Stories enable powerful social-economic effects by creating trust-based consensus (via artifacts/objects). The most resonant stories consolidate collective action by creating common language & representations which allow people to know & trust each other by sharing a certain interpretation of the world. The winning story consolidates social-economic influence and prototypes a certain order. The winning story enables its own economy (by definition of value) by enabling its own community. The result of this collective action is the implicit establishment of societal ideals and standards as the foundations of institutional bias. Stories relate both embodied knowledge from immersive experience and memetic knowledge from abstract purpose. One is cultivated and bottom up, the other is fabricated and top down. As with much else, the context and origin of narratives carry crucial political stakes. Who cultivates and owns the stories?

0: life is a story Narratives [1] are the consensus mechanism of the subjects of society by the objects of art, politics, religion, and economy. Individually, stories are the forms that relate meaning to our experiences, and guide action. We live in and relate by stories. We think the way we think and do the way we do partly because of things that have been said to us by stories of the past, and by what we say now in reply [2] . Stories enable powerful social-economic effects by creating trust-based consensus (via artifacts/objects). The most resonant stories consolidate collective action by c

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