By Loyal D. Rue
In a compelling learn for someone attracted to the place we got here from and the place we are going, Everybody's tale bargains a thrilling travel of typical historical past that illuminates the evolution of subject, existence, and attention. As outdated myths, non secular tales, and different shared narratives of humankind are more and more seen as intellectually improbable and morally beside the point, they develop into much less prone to satisfy their unique purpose-to supply humans solutions and supply a feeling of balance and peace in everyday life. dependable Rue restores that imbalance with a brand new tale in response to truth. Rue, writer of a brand new York occasions amazing publication of 1994, via the Grace of Guile: The function of Deception in average heritage in Human Affairs, now offers an evolutionary journey recounting our shared "epic of evolution"
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Thus we appear to be in the presence of a trait that is both universally and exclusively human, suggesting that what humans are has something to do with their stories. If these ideas hold upthat is, if storytelling is an essential human activity bestowing substance and form on the lives we havethen it would follow that changes at this level of human thought will be among the most profound and far-reaching we can imagine. Thus we have good reason to believe that appropriate changes at the level of story might hold the power of reorientation needed for enhancing human solidarity and cooperation.
The trouble is that once limits have been reached, spreading out no longer brings relief from stress, it just means Page 9 more stress. Of course the subject of limits is not a source of worry for those infatuated with the prospects for colonizing outer space. Thus we are subjected to proposals for building metropolitan space stations and for seeding life forms on some of the thousands of asteroids in our solar systemthe ultimate triumph of colonialist mentality. Despite the fact that some highly respected and competent individuals have promoted the colonization of space, there remains no good reason to consider these projects anything more than idle fantasies feeding off a fallacious analogy between the new world of the fifteenth century and the open sky of the twenty-first.
The primal instinct of narrative, of continuous scenario invention, is what makes the human brain superior in performance. In dreams we construct stories of unconstrained fantasy. In gossip we evaluate others with tales of their exploits and foibles. And in religious myths we repeat the epics that ennoble our lives, our tribe, and our species. Religious epics satisfy another primal need. They confirm that we are part of something greater than ourselves. They say, Page x Death may claim your precious self, and those you most love, but it will not claim the tribe or sully the benefits that empower the tribe.