{"id":61057,"date":"2021-12-22T09:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61057"},"modified":"2021-12-22T09:58:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T14:58:58","slug":"todays-contemplation-collapse-cometh-xxxvi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61057","title":{"rendered":"Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVI<\/a><\/h3>\n

On Narrative Control and \u2018Fact Checking\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the areas of interest for me as I weaved my way through my ten years of formal post-secondary education (yes, I spent the entire decade of the 1980s pursuing four degrees at several different universities; some of it part-time as I waffled between education and full-time work for relatively good pay in a grocery store) was that of epistemology (the nature and origins of \u2018knowledge\u2019). It was likely the result of some of my required readings: Stephen Jay Gould\u2019s Ever Since Darwin, Thomas Kuhn\u2019s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and Clifford Gertz\u2019s The Interpretation of Cultures. Regardless, I ended up exploring (outside of my regular classes) such topics as deconstructive criticism, hermeneutics, and philology; interesting topics for someone who ended up teaching elementary school students (10 years) and as a school administrator (15 years).<\/p>\n

Upon reflection, this exploration of how humans come to \u2018know\u2019 what they know (or at least what they believe) has led me to be rather skeptical of dominant narratives, especially of \u2018authority figures\u2019. My challenging of \u2018authority\u2019, as it were, may have come somewhat \u2018naturally\u2019 given I grew up in the household of a police officer. Not that I consider my dad to have been \u2018authoritarian\u2019, not at all, but the somewhat \u2018natural\u2019 pushback children can give to parents was slightly coloured in our household by the simple fact that my dad was a sociocultural authority figure on top of his role as a father.<\/p>\n

Anyways, I believe I have always questioned to a certain extent the \u2018popular\u2019 stories we are exposed to. And as I\u2019ve read more widely over the years, I\u2019ve come to hold that these stories tend to always play to the pursuits of the people that dominate society\u2019s economic and power structures.<\/p>\n

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