Emergence 3.0
A Novel – In One Page Per Day
Sunday, March 31st, 2019
Chapter
Three: Water
Narrative
mattered.
The experience of injustice nourishes the rebellious spirit like water
soaking the roots of a great tree, feeding the heart of the revolutionary until
grows so large and beats so painfully that it bursts, but the experience of injustice
could never be enough. The story had to be told, and the narrative reinforced.
Too much water and the organism will die, just enough and it will
thrive, it will multiply until the towering tree it becomes a mighty forest, beating
with a million hearts, a wall to its opponents protecting those within, more
than a wall, a force field, a sheltering spirit that can strike with power at
any who approach it.
The experience of injustice is nothing if the story of it is never told.
Everything has to be laid out in context. The experience of injustice does not
occur in a vacuum, it is always a pattern of behavior, of action and reaction.
No event is isolated, everything is related.
If the experience of injustice cannot be tied to an earlier predicate,
then it is merely an accident, it is forgivable. Therefore the first story that
is told of it, the first witness must connect to the continuing grievances of
the people.
The principle who experienced the injustice, and the witness who
observed it, must both see the event in the same light, even if the witness and
the principle do not agree on the predicate, they can be drawn together through
the power of the narrative.
An argument against the narrative is always an argument in the context
of the narrative. And the narrative is all that matters.
All histories have three dimensions; the events as the actually
happened, which includes both the intersection of actions and intentions that
are the material and formal causes of the events, and the consequences which
flow from them; the dimension of perception, how the events are perceived and
remembered by those who actually experienced them; and the narrative dimension,
the story that is told.
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