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Hi all. The Truth About Stories made me think a lot, and in many different tangents. This rant is one of the tangents.  By the way, I completely agree with the idea that stories are all we are, and I was very glad to read that, because I have always had the idea in my head but never heard or seen it spelled out. Hearing stories defined as everything has really got me thinking about how little value this society has placed on stories and words in general, and how we've changed the way we tell stories. You've all heard it before, and it has affected you directly; the english language is disappearing slowly into a sea of lol's, jk's, wtf's, and rofl's. This is the way we tell stories now, and what does that mean? Is this an evolution of our language? And if so, why is it become less sophisticated and not more sophisticated? I think what this means is that the general public has completely lost sight of the importance of stories. We are changing the stories by changing the way we tell them, and therefore we are changing our lives. I could go on an on about the disintegration of language, but I'll spare you that. 

My favorite part of our class discussion on Thursday was when we got to the point where everyone generally agreed that Myths were once science, and some of our science could potentially be myth in the future. In addition, someone (I forget who, and apologize) thought that there was an eventual end to the constant questions/answers/more questions game that science has been playing. These two ideas got me thinking the existential "How do we know what we know?" question, and that is a whole 'nuther can of worms I do not care to open in this forum yet. Anyway, very interesting and thought provoking discussion on Thursday.