Featured
Podcast
Why Actual Epics are so Rare
The Storycraft Podcast — a wide-ranging conversation about epics and why they’re paradoxically scarce.
Highlighted Features
A small set of featured appearances worth starting with.
Featured
Talk
The Fate of the American Dream
A conversation about the organizing principle of the American empire and what might replace it.
Featured
Essay
Mythmaking in politics
An objective (apolitical) analysis of how myths shape political discourse.
Storytelling Perspectives
The Significance, Structure, and Role of Storytelling.
Storytelling gives Experience Meaning
Stories are how people remember their true nature, as self-awareness grows. They communicate values and experiences across distance and time.
The Erosion of Myth Precedes Civilization's
Without myth, culture no longer inspires cooperation, but fragments into mindless spectacle—where distraction becomes the goal.
How to Make Stories Resonate
Epics challenge assumptions and invite new perspectives. This changes culture for good or ill.
The Story Industry
A wide-angle look at the industry behind modern storytelling — The psychology, sociology, and political-economy of the entertainment industry.
The System
The Political Economy of Storytelling
Incentives, risk-minimization, and brand protection turn art into a pipeline — producing spectacle without soul.
The Output
Why Everything Now Feels the Same
The structural reasons originality is punished — and why audiences feel the hollowness before they can name it.