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'''AM:''' That is a very strong-. It is the national pastime for a reason: it's fun and meaningful. And it’s … right. Like, those people are annoying. And the narratives that they push are annoying. But the problem is, it's reductive to say, you know, “What we need to do is, sort of, smash their narratives to bits, and then we'll be free of the narrative.” There's no … And I’m not saying you're saying that. I'm saying that there are a lot of people … Most people that I've encountered, when you take them to the next step of this logic, they go, “The world I want to live in is a world where we don't have narratives forced down our throat. We want to live in a narrative-free existence where we can just speak the truth.” And it's a fantasy. It's like- | '''AM:''' That is a very strong-. It is the national pastime for a reason: it's fun and meaningful. And it’s … right. Like, those people are annoying. And the narratives that they push are annoying. But the problem is, it's reductive to say, you know, “What we need to do is, sort of, smash their narratives to bits, and then we'll be free of the narrative.” There's no … And I’m not saying you're saying that. I'm saying that there are a lot of people … Most people that I've encountered, when you take them to the next step of this logic, they go, “The world I want to live in is a world where we don't have narratives forced down our throat. We want to live in a narrative-free existence where we can just speak the truth.” And it's a fantasy. It's like- | ||
'''EW:''' Yeah-. No no. But, look … Not on this show, man. Like, on this show we talk about the need for load-bearing fiction, right? And we can't live narrative-free—humans are narrative-making machines. | '''EW:''' Yeah-. No no. But, look … Not on this show, man. Like, on this show we talk about the need for [[Load-Bearing Fictions|load-bearing fiction]], right? And we can't live narrative-free—humans are narrative-making machines. | ||
'''AM:''' It's just not logically- | '''AM:''' It's just not logically- | ||