Intro
The “decline of stories” is not about taste. It’s about a weakening of the tools that teach us how to see, choose, and live together.
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Critique
How meaning erodes — and what replaces it.
Attention capture replaces attention training
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Moral flattening: consequence without cost
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Safety becomes the aesthetic
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- Meaning erodes when choices stop costing something.
- Empathy erodes when perspectives are performed, not inhabited.
- Myth erodes when stories stop orienting us toward reality and begin soothing us away from it.
Fix
What to demand from stories — and what to practice as an audience.
Restore consequence
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Write for attention, not retention
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Treat myth as orientation, not decoration
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Impact
What it costs when meaning collapses — and what restoration looks like.
Shared orientation collapses
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The interior life thins out
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Restoration: attention, consequence, myth
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