{"id":67937,"date":"2024-05-08T12:33:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T17:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67937"},"modified":"2024-05-08T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T17:33:28","slug":"the-immanence-of-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67937","title":{"rendered":"The Immanence of Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-18914\" class=\"post-18914 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-politicseconomics category-radical-non-duality category-culture-human-nature\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/2024\/05\/04\/the-immanence-of-everything\/\">The Immanence of Everything<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18923\" src=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/images\/tardigrade-Mikrofoto.de-Baertierchen3.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/images\/tardigrade-Mikrofoto.de-Baertierchen3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/images\/tardigrade-Mikrofoto.de-Baertierchen3-300x200.jpg 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Tardigrade photo by Frank Fox at www.mikro-foto.de, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mikrofoto.de-Baertierchen3.jpg\">wikimedia<\/a>\u00a0CC-BY-SA 3.0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently I\u2019ve been reading more of the work of Parul Sehgal, whose article laying out the dangers of stories inspired my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/2023\/07\/03\/the-pure-immanence-of-a-moment\/\">last article on immanence<\/a>, which is perhaps the best piece of writing I have ever done. Stories, she suggested, might be a distraction from (and impediment to) seeing the world as it really is.<\/p>\n<p>I could obviously speculate on whether our stories are \u201call we are\u201d, such that the \u2018story of me\u2019 is a \u2018loud\u2019 fiction that obscures and dumbs down our capacity to see things in all their complexity. Or that all stories, including the \u2018story of me\u2019 are lies and propaganda, describing what we\u00a0<em>want to believe<\/em>\u00a0happened (or is happening, or will happen), rather than what actually is happening (which can never be contained in a story). Or that\u00a0<em>immanence<\/em>, the simple \u2018being-ness\u2019 of things without thoughts or stories or meaning-making about them, is what radical non-dualists are referring to when they say \u201cAll there is, is\u00a0<em>this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Parul\u2019s follow-up is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/TrueLit\/comments\/rqucq7\/the_case_against_the_trauma_plot_by_parul_sehgal\/\">critical attack on the modern prevalence of \u2018trauma plots\u2019<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 novels, films and other stories (including some people\u2019s summing up of their \u2018life stories\u2019) that attribute everything that happened to their characters to their traumatization. She ascribes this to lazy writing (and, I suppose, to the propensity of many in our bewilderingly complex world to want to hear stories that are simple and pat). Some have even described it as \u201ctrauma porn\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That got me thinking about my recent use of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/howtosavetheworld.ca\/2024\/01\/05\/civilizations-cycle-of-trauma\/\">this \u2018cycle of trauma\u2019 model.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Am I guilty of over-relying on this \u2018simplistic\u2019 model to explain too much modern human behaviour (the genocide in Palestine, for example)? It\u2019s certainly possible&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Immanence of Everything Tardigrade photo by Frank Fox at www.mikro-foto.de, from\u00a0wikimedia\u00a0CC-BY-SA 3.0 Recently I\u2019ve been reading more of the work of Parul Sehgal, whose article laying out the dangers of stories inspired my\u00a0last article on immanence, which is perhaps the best piece of writing I have ever done. Stories, she suggested, might be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32260,32259,34498,34497,3467],"class_list":["post-67937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-dave-pollard","tag-how-to-save-the-world","tag-immanence","tag-parul-sehgal","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67938,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67937\/revisions\/67938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}