We are the first generation bombarded with so many stories from so many authorities, none of which are our own. The parable of the postmodern mind is the person surrounded by a media center: three television screens in front of them giving three sets of stories; fax machines bringing in other stories; newspapers providing still more stories. In a sense, we are saturated with stories; we’re saturated with points of view. But the effect of being bombarded with all of these points of view is that we don’t have a point of view and we don’t have a story. We lose the continuity of our experiences; we become people who are written on from the outside.
Sam Keen
(Sent to me by one of my best friends. I think I might print this and tape it to my bathroom mirror so that I can read it every day.)
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I’ve recently decided that I want to help people write their own stories and I too will be printing this comment :)
(Source: brit)
