Trumpism: The Birth of Political Nihilism
As observers, we humans tend to view the world through a vast and interlocked framework of narratives, coherent stories that help us to discern patterns of cause and effect in the real world. These narratives serve to become powerful guides to help us interpret and piece together the world around us in one, solidified piece that makes reasonable sense.
Without formulating narratives, we would either live in an emotionally-charged “instant” all the time, moments of joy and panic giving way to the next moment of joy or panic, much like animals do — everything we know of cause and effect, of form and structure would dissolve, and nothing would make sense on a long time-frame anymore, a total quantum chaos devoid of anything sensible.
Our world is programmed to understand a succession of moments, collections where things make sense, narratives that guide us down our lives’ paths. They’re composed of the very values we’d questioned and come to accept our entire lives, the things that have always made sense to us, from our experiences to our thoughts.
