Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
Humans evolved to acquire symbols as quickly as possible.
Language and storytelling evolved to be acquirable as easily as possible.
That’s why our tales spin us.
Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
Our brains evolved to tell stories before they evolved to speak.
This has fundamental implications for our susceptibility to communication in the networked age.
Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
As much as our modern day Number Six – Fed Chair Jay Powell – may protest that he is a free man with lots of wiggle room on the pace of future rate cuts and being data dependent on inflation and blah blah blah, he has no degrees of freedom whatsoever. He has two choices, both of them terrible.
If we care about the influence of social networks on our minds, why are we talking about bipedalism and the 8 million year cycle of co-evolution it kicked off?
Because it defined how our young were parented, how we taught them, and what they were exposed to. Because it changed how our symbolic brains evolved.
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Recent major media stories that feel to us like they’re part of a larger narrative campaign.
Man’s road to becoming a storyteller began with a single step.
That step kicked off millions of years of co-evolution of the human brain, society, language – and our relationship with story.