On metanarratives – or, how we transform our cultural mythology

Summary

Around 2010, Sharon Blackie recalls, there was much talk that “the old story isn’t working” and that “we need to write a new one”. She wholeheartedly agreed with the first. Her case against the second is that a culture’s big stories can’t be drafted in a workshop: they grow slowly, from many smaller stories and new ways of living.

Rationale

She helps us hold a tension: our research repeatedly highlighted separation as the deep problem, yet we’re not arguing for a ‘single story’ to replace it.