We’re just awash — aground! — in “narratives” these days.
“Narratives” are conceptual stories or frameworks that are designed
by the ever-grinding mind to organize and categorize realities of everyday life. Many of the realities faced by the ordinary person, starting with me,
are unsatisfactory and distressing. “Narratives” are a form of mental control, to vitiate and diminish some of the distress of life..
But “narratives” don’t work! They are seldom completely true; and more often, they are cataclysmically partial. In both senses! This cast examines two “narratives” — one regarding an apparently neglected English hymn writer and the other being racism — and comes up with a caution.
I then expand the caution to account for irrational experiences within personal relationships. I had a vision a year ago, at a lovely wedding on the Atlantic Ocean, which invalidated almost everything else in front of me. (And it happened to be a great wedding.) But my vision rendered null and void the entire situation. “Let me take you there.”
Let’s hear it, too, for General Johnson.