Thought experiment: if one assumes everything is just a story or narrative, that story itself assumes there's no truth. Does someone whose identity is grounded in a story that assumes there is no truth really likely to look for said ''truth''?
There's a paradox there. It's like someone saying there is no sky or anything above us, so they never bother to look... because there's nothing above us! Why would you look up if you've adopted the narrative that there's nothing to look up at?
That being said, I wouldn't discount the suggestion that we all live by stories. Definitely. However, I think part of the real story comes down to how people actually react when they discover new elements of the story, new plot lines which weren't part of the ''original'' the person planned in their head.
The more interesting stories are the ones where people become brave enough to go off script, to welcome to unplanned plot twists, and actually see where it takes them.
"Reality" changes all of the time. The world was once flat and the earth was the center of the universe. Some stories endure longer than others. Scientists cannot even objectively say where "reality" comes from since we affect any experiment we conduct. There is no difference, really, between subject and object. I am totally okay with questioning everything. I have zero problems with paradox.
Thought experiment: if one assumes everything is just a story or narrative, that story itself assumes there's no truth. Does someone whose identity is grounded in a story that assumes there is no truth really likely to look for said ''truth''?
There's a paradox there. It's like someone saying there is no sky or anything above us, so they never bother to look... because there's nothing above us! Why would you look up if you've adopted the narrative that there's nothing to look up at?
That being said, I wouldn't discount the suggestion that we all live by stories. Definitely. However, I think part of the real story comes down to how people actually react when they discover new elements of the story, new plot lines which weren't part of the ''original'' the person planned in their head.
The more interesting stories are the ones where people become brave enough to go off script, to welcome to unplanned plot twists, and actually see where it takes them.
"Reality" changes all of the time. The world was once flat and the earth was the center of the universe. Some stories endure longer than others. Scientists cannot even objectively say where "reality" comes from since we affect any experiment we conduct. There is no difference, really, between subject and object. I am totally okay with questioning everything. I have zero problems with paradox.