Narrativist:
An individual who filters their experience of reality through a
story-like internal structure (the inner narrative) which they shield from criticism using badifaith arguments (the outer narrative, these can also double as "dog-whistles" to signal other Narrativists) and who further
engages in compaction cycles (ritualized scapegoating). Narrativists
often select their leadership based entirely upon whom they
perceive as presenting the most credible threat to "The Enemy".
Everything
that doesn't compose to their delusion that their chosen leader is
going to lead them into smashing The Enemy is simply discarded,
resulting in them ignoring large chunks of reality. In a sense, they are
playing chess while half the pieces are invisible to them. No matter
what game plan they ultimately concoct in order to achieve their goals,
it will really only make sense to them. To anyone who can see the entire
game board as it is set out, what they are doing looks irrational and
random, if not outright self-defeating. If however you could perceive
the game
board the way they do, (that is only seeing the pieces that they want to
see), then i would argue that their strategy would make more sense.
So
it isn't so much that Narrativists are inherently irrational so much as
they are arriving at irrational conclusions as a result of how they are
filtering reality. Understanding how Narrativists filter reality
enables one to understand the Narrativists themselves. (Ultimately they
are just humans trying to meet the same needs as everyone else.) It is
my contention that once an individual understands how Narrativists are
filtering reality then the pattern behind much of the odd behavior on
display in the present political situation makes a great deal of
rational sense.
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