There are philosophers who claim that any civilization depends on the stories that people tell. Here are two commentaries on that.
Matthew Arnold:
Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born1
Charles Eisenstein:
For anything to turn or change, it has to fulfill its extreme. The current ideology, the cultural story, that we live in has to finish its telling before a new story can be born.2
1From the poem Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse, 1855.
2From “Living With The Contradictions”, alternet.org, November 13, 2012.
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