The thing you think of as you is basically a story you are telling yourself.
Similarly, most politics is basically a struggle to tell our collective story in a way that centers our selves — these fragile things built of stories — as the heroes of our subjective universe. 1/6
Similarly, most politics is basically a struggle to tell our collective story in a way that centers our selves — these fragile things built of stories — as the heroes of our subjective universe. 1/6
Our attempts to make these two stories cohere, the self and the society, is why politics is so contentious — because it involves how we construct our own identity and everything we trust. 2/6
But there's liberation in realizing that the received stories we rehearse most frequently are myths. There is deeper truth about who you are and who we are together that does not fit easily into media narrative or political binaries. 3/6
This is still true even (especially) for "third way" politics, b/c there is no midway or 3rd way between imaginary extremes. Claiming we are somehow "above" the power struggle over narrative simply makes the narrative more real, and places our false selves again at the center. 4
I am convinced this is one reason so many of us are so existentially anxious, angry, and sad: we cannot imagine a better story.
The story you are telling yourself about who you are, and the story we are trying to tell about who we are, is fluid and subject to revision. 5/6
The story you are telling yourself about who you are, and the story we are trying to tell about who we are, is fluid and subject to revision. 5/6
Faith is trusting that there is a better story that is trying to find a hearing in your life and in the world. Like improv, the story only emerges if we are willing to follow the fear and say yes to where it goes. 6/6
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