история за опасността от историите

Бележка: извинявам се че цитатите са на английски в момента нямам време да ги преведа, не се знае дали ще го направя.

След като гледахте видеото искам да ви кажа, че темата ме занимава отдавна. Започна с този цитат.

School! We sat in English class and we dissected the stories that I’d escaped into, laid open their abdomens and tagged their organs, covered their genitals with polite sterile drapes, recorded dutiful notes en masse that told us what the story was about, but never what the story was. Stories are propaganda, virii that slide past your critical immune system and insert themselves directly into your emotions. Kill them and cut them open and they’re as naked as a nightclub in daylight.

"Eastern Standard Tribe" - Cory Doctorow

Чрез блога на Diane Coyle разбрах за:

Louis Menand’s 2001 The Metaphysical Club, an intellectual history of a quartet of philosophers whose influence helped the United States emerge from the trauma of the Civil War and grow into the successful society, economy, world power it became in the 20th century.

“The belief that ideas should never become ideologies – either justifying the status quo, or dictating some transcendent imperative for renouncing it – was the essence of what they taught. … They taught a kind of skepticism that helped people cope with life in a heterogeneous, industrialized, mass market society. … This skepticism is also one of the qualities that make societies like that work. It is what permits the continual state of upheaval that capitalism thrives on. Holmes, James, Peirce and Dewey helped to free thought from thralldom to official ideologies, of the church, the state, or even the academy. There is also, though, implicit on what they wrote, a recognition of the limits of what thought can do in the struggle to increase human happiness.”

Всичко това има връзка с историите. Макар да станаха много цитатите се изкушававам и включвам още един The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda.