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Yes, that's why I called them "failed attempts to encapsulate reality into an over simplified story."
by keiferski 2y ago
Yes, that's why I called them "failed attempts to encapsulate reality into an over simplified story."
- professor_x 2y agoThis sounds like a non true scotsman. If large societies buying into a story doesn’t qualify it as a success, what does? M
- keiferski 2y agoWhy would that be the qualification for success? I didn’t write that “everyone believing it” was the marker of success, so I don’t know why that would be relevant. In another comment thread, I wrote that a story is needed which combines accurate scientific information with a human purpose in the world. Those examples quite obviously didn’t have scientific views of the world.
- watwut 2y agoBy that standard, successful societies are the ones without a story. While the ones with story are autocratic and dictatorships.
- goatlover 2y agoThose societies not being failures as a result. They both fail to properly understand politics and economics. Also sociology.
- bossyTeacher 2y agoBy that token, every attempt to encapsulate reality into a simplified story is successful until it fails. Not a very useful thing to bring to the table