Narratives

 

So, for sometime I have been thinking about multi-dimensional politics, and

also the relationships between game theory and politics.  All this reminds

me of free groups and the word problem in group theory.


Well, one connection to this is the narrative.  It seems that a " narrative "

is one of the guiding principals in the politics as it appears to me, in 

the U.S.  And the politics seems to revolve to some degree on the

coherency of the narrative.  


So what is a narrative?  I suppose that you can think of this in many ways,

but clearly it is a sequence of some type.  There are various elements

to it, but finally when you connect or weave these elements together

you end up with a narrative.  What are the elements?  They can be

dialogues or conversations.  They could also be actual events or

maybe what you might call " facts ", documents, or such like that.


Now, when you think about it , these narratives need some kind of

foundation, like Eastern European culture or Chinese, or Central

European or Mediterranean or something like that.  That's mostly coloring.


Also most narratives have some kind of rhythm,  like, snappy, or slow

or methodical.  


But at the " end of the day " , it seems like, these narratives have

a tremendous effect on convincing, large numbers of people that

such and such is a reasonable course of action.  


The only problem is  reasonable and course of action, don't always

work together as well as you might think or even like.  That is

simply because in the course of an action, you run up, often or

even frequently, with unanticipated eventualities which make up

so much of our experiences.


So, what is the point?  Really, I am not sure, but clearly a great

deal of thought and activity is involved with this.  Ideally, it might

lead to thinking of this political game in more that 1 dimension,

placing it on a plane or 3 dimensional space, even, although

most probably to work well, it might require more than that,

which is frustrating, because it it so hard to visualize.






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