Every bit of this makes sense and resonates with me, Stewart. Not sure if you read Heather Cox Richardson or if her piece from 5.16 made it to your eyes, but her discussion of “narrative warfare” really struck a chord with me. As someone who, like you, has spent a career paying attention to the language (verbal and otherwise) people use to communicate, and how, done well, that can deepen the convictions of the listener, and how the current movement so capitalizes on that reality, and…well, here we are. I’ll admit that I wasn’t ready for this one to end when it did. You’ve scratched the surface of an iceberg!
Thanks for your comments and for all the connections you make. I DID read HCR, but after I had written. If there is a theme in my writing, it’s how we all construct meaning… and our culture seems to be at a point of epistemological crisis. “[A]nd, well, here we are” sums it up very well.
Molly thinks my pieces end too quickly. And this one certainly does. No doubt, I will return to the iceberg in the future!
Every bit of this makes sense and resonates with me, Stewart. Not sure if you read Heather Cox Richardson or if her piece from 5.16 made it to your eyes, but her discussion of “narrative warfare” really struck a chord with me. As someone who, like you, has spent a career paying attention to the language (verbal and otherwise) people use to communicate, and how, done well, that can deepen the convictions of the listener, and how the current movement so capitalizes on that reality, and…well, here we are. I’ll admit that I wasn’t ready for this one to end when it did. You’ve scratched the surface of an iceberg!
Thanks for your comments and for all the connections you make. I DID read HCR, but after I had written. If there is a theme in my writing, it’s how we all construct meaning… and our culture seems to be at a point of epistemological crisis. “[A]nd, well, here we are” sums it up very well.
Molly thinks my pieces end too quickly. And this one certainly does. No doubt, I will return to the iceberg in the future!
I look forward to that return!