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Category Archives: Social Narrative
Group Identity – A Society’s Sense of Self
Here’s a little essay on how narrative can determine whether a group, culture, or society will hang together or fall apart… When you see a society as a group mind, you can see that it must have an identity, just as … Continue reading
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Narrative Structure and the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership)
By Melanie Anne Phillips Narrative works in the real world as accurately and efficiently as it does in fiction. Not surprising since fictional narrative is nothing more than our attempt to refine and understand how people are driven and how they … Continue reading
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Dramatica Theory (Annotated) Part 8 “Communicating Through Symbols”
Excerpted from the book, Dramatica: A New Theory of Story How can essential concepts be communicated? Certainly not in their pure, intuitive form directly from mind to mind. (Not yet, anyway!) To communicate a concept, an author must symbolize it, … Continue reading
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Dramatica Theory (Annotated) Part 7 “Symbolizing Concepts”
Excerpted from the book, Dramatica: A New Theory of Story It has been argued that perhaps the symbols we use are what create concepts, and therefore no common understanding between cultures, races, or times is possible. Dramatica works because indeed … Continue reading
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Narrative Structure, Game Theory and Crowd Control
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John Muir and the Poodle People
My latest video on narrative psychology…
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Intellectualism
Intellectualism is the nobility of a free society. (Something I just thunk of that might be a good thematic topic for a story).
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