Absolutely! I mean that social change tends to move along paths that have been mapped out by narratives, because this is what is seen as legitimate. That's how things are able to change seemingly so fast, because in a way people have already accepted that logic for the world. Some researchers of the collapse of the Soviety Union called the phenomenon a "memory of the future." Does that work as an answer?
Do you want to say a bit more about stories as the infrastructure for the future?
Absolutely! I mean that social change tends to move along paths that have been mapped out by narratives, because this is what is seen as legitimate. That's how things are able to change seemingly so fast, because in a way people have already accepted that logic for the world. Some researchers of the collapse of the Soviety Union called the phenomenon a "memory of the future." Does that work as an answer?