After-postmodern Narratives 3

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.