{"id":8271,"date":"2012-01-05T16:37:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T15:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/?p=8271"},"modified":"2023-01-06T10:27:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T09:27:56","slug":"the-downside-of-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/the-downside-of-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"The Downside of Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting speech on &#8220;the heuristic narratological basis of self-delusion&#8221;,\u00a0 &#8220;the stories and metaphors we seduce ourselves with&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RoEEDKwzNBw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Transcript is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/r\/discussion\/lw\/8w1\/transcript_tyler_cowen_on_stories\/\">http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/r\/discussion\/lw\/8w1\/transcript_tyler_cowen_on_stories\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is one extract from the transcript.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Another set of stories that are popular &#8211; if you know Oliver Stone movies or Michael Moore movies. You can&#8217;t make a movie and say, &#8220;It was all a big accident.&#8221; No, it has to be a conspiracy, people plotting together, because a story is about intention. A story is not about spontaneous order or complex human institutions which are the product of human action but not of human design. No, a story is about evil people plotting together. So you hear stories about plots, or even stories about good people plotting things together, just like when you&#8217;re watching movies. This, again, is reason to be suspicious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He is so right. Our narrative bias feeds the engine of Ideological belief, which always holds that there are oppressors and oppressed and that the oppressors are intentionally oppressing, usually via conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Complex systems, emergent properties, mistakes and unforeseen second or third order effects are discounted. Narrative bias demands agency, and that serves Ideology, the dominant political mode of our time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting speech on &#8220;the heuristic narratological basis of self-delusion&#8221;,\u00a0 &#8220;the stories and metaphors we seduce ourselves with&#8221;. Transcript is here: http:\/\/lesswrong.com\/r\/discussion\/lw\/8w1\/transcript_tyler_cowen_on_stories\/ Here is one extract from the transcript. Another set of stories that are popular &#8211; if you know Oliver Stone movies or Michael Moore movies. You can&#8217;t make a movie and say, &#8220;It was &#8230; <a title=\"The Downside of Stories\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/the-downside-of-stories\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Downside of Stories\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27,29,34,7,14,15,42,19],"tags":[300,296],"class_list":["post-8271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-audio-and-podcasts","category-contemporary-culture","category-language-writing","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-psychology","category-sociology-social-sciences","tag-processed","tag-published"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prY0k-29p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8115,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/slavoj-zizek-animated-by-ras\/","url_meta":{"origin":8271,"position":0},"title":"Slavoj Zizek &#8211; First as Tragedy, Then as Farce","author":"LimbicNutrition Shorts","date":"October 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Slavoj Zizek animated by RAS.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Miscellaneous&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Miscellaneous","link":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/category\/miscellaneous\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16829,"url":"https:\/\/www.limbicnutrition.com\/blog\/jon-ronson-on-social-media-shaming\/","url_meta":{"origin":8271,"position":1},"title":"Jon Ronson on Social Media Shaming","author":"Limbic","date":"October 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"From Jon Ronson's TED talk \"How our real lives can be ruined by our digital ones\" Transcript from Jon Ronson on TED Radio hour's Screen Time part 2: \"I think for other people, it's because Twitter is basically a mutual approval machine. 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