In After-postmodern
times we live in a paradoxical situation in terms of the deep meaning of Narrative
and its value for the West Society.
As the author
Siva Vaidhyanathan explains in the book “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects
Us and Undermines Democracy”. Nowadays people do not care too much to read books
and explore its deep meanings. Everybody is very busy with distractions and
shallow things in Facebook, even with good things that in the beginning the founders
of it thought that was happening.
Maybe we can
add to that reflection that some explanation of the situation is “the archetype
of the shadow”, in a Jungian concept. The shadow of the human being is in every
human activity. Any activity. Even if we think that it is the purest activity
ever. The purest faith, the purest religion, the purest brotherhood, and so on.
The human
being must learn how to deal with “the shadow”. Ancient traditions, religious
or of other nature, have some keys to deal with the shadow. Even Narratives are
a way to deal with the shadow. It is a very ancient way.
In After-postmodern
times, some fields learnt to use Narratives to get a deeper knowledge and to
deal with the shadow, as, for example, the Narrative Medicine.
Maybe Facebook
must learn to deal with the shadow, or the users of Facebook. Or maybe people
can have some time to read books or deeper narratives. Facebook is not good or
bad. It depends on what use we make of it.
