Nymrod, I like where you are coming from and I agree with you. I don't know if this style of writing is the best way to download what you're saying into culture. I think it needs more story and more character, whether that is your own personal story or a writing style which invites the reader to see this as part of their own story. More story! More mythic potency! More right-hemispheric activation! Just my thoughts. Keep doing what you're doing!
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And I totally agree. This *isn't* the best style to reach millions, to impact culture at scale. But! that is not what this particular piece is trying to do.
This essay isn't very mythopoetic because it is _about_ the mythopoetic. It is meta. It is intended _for_ those who wish to engage with generating and telling the stories this time needs. People like _you_, who are engaging with such questions as the one you have raised here. ;)
I'm with you that we need more 'juice,' more mythopoetic potency. The path this publication walks starts first with grappling with what this _responsibility_ entails. This is what this essay is about.
Another way I want to respond to your comment is on the individual developmental level.
This essay (to the extent that it is effective) aims to dialectically move the reader toward a _certain mode_ of what Robert Kegan calls a "Self-Transforming Mind"--the 5th stage in his model. It also presents a philosophical scaffolding for a particular, skillfully detached, way of relating to stories that corresponds with this stage. This essay can support or even boost up anybody working through this territory and up toward their own "Self-Transforming Mind."
Indeed, this essay should also be powerfully supportive for anybody moving toward a "Self-Authoring Mind"--4th stage in Kegan's model.
These are advanced stages, relative to where the cultural center of gravity is. For culture itself to move toward these stages requires more individuals stably holding the ground there. You could say that this essay aims to provide that stability.
Nymrod, I like where you are coming from and I agree with you. I don't know if this style of writing is the best way to download what you're saying into culture. I think it needs more story and more character, whether that is your own personal story or a writing style which invites the reader to see this as part of their own story. More story! More mythic potency! More right-hemispheric activation! Just my thoughts. Keep doing what you're doing!
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Thank you for reading. We appreciate your patronage. :)
And I totally agree. This *isn't* the best style to reach millions, to impact culture at scale. But! that is not what this particular piece is trying to do.
This essay isn't very mythopoetic because it is _about_ the mythopoetic. It is meta. It is intended _for_ those who wish to engage with generating and telling the stories this time needs. People like _you_, who are engaging with such questions as the one you have raised here. ;)
I'm with you that we need more 'juice,' more mythopoetic potency. The path this publication walks starts first with grappling with what this _responsibility_ entails. This is what this essay is about.
Another way I want to respond to your comment is on the individual developmental level.
This essay (to the extent that it is effective) aims to dialectically move the reader toward a _certain mode_ of what Robert Kegan calls a "Self-Transforming Mind"--the 5th stage in his model. It also presents a philosophical scaffolding for a particular, skillfully detached, way of relating to stories that corresponds with this stage. This essay can support or even boost up anybody working through this territory and up toward their own "Self-Transforming Mind."
Indeed, this essay should also be powerfully supportive for anybody moving toward a "Self-Authoring Mind"--4th stage in Kegan's model.
These are advanced stages, relative to where the cultural center of gravity is. For culture itself to move toward these stages requires more individuals stably holding the ground there. You could say that this essay aims to provide that stability.