Finding Coherence

We know that our lives are shaped by stories; the ones told to us by others, the ones we tell others, and in the end most of all by the stories we tell ourselves. Stories have power, and rarely I suspect more than now, and we would do well to consider our relationship with the storytellers.

When I consider the stories being directed at me by all types of media, from the respectability of the BBC to the attention seeking headlines of the mainstream press and onwards to the outright hysteria of social media and targeted mail campaigns (for some reason, I am being bombarded by mails from the American Right) what I notice is a dissonance and polarisation, perhaps best displayed today as lobbyists in the USA argue over whether 5G interferes with aircraft safety, and a decision that is being made today as to what takes precedence – safety, or commercial roll out of 5G. I’d rather not be part of the live experiment that finds out which it is.

However, what I am being told, at high volume, is n…