The crisis of narration

In this essay, the author tells us about narrative in its most global and generic aspect, a necessary narrative that is being lost and, with the loss, so is our identification as a society since “narratives are generators of community. He storytellingon the other hand, only creates communities. The community It is the community in commodity form. It consists of consumers. Thus, the author criticizes the purpose of the current narrative, since really the «storytelling es storyselling“To explain stories is to sell them.” For this reason, the author states that “in our daily lives we explain fewer and fewer stories to ourselves. “Communication as an exchange of information paralyzes the telling of stories” so that our discourse is built mainly on the provision of data, but without a correlation or analysis that develops a story when transmitting it. With this approach, the author also influences the narrated life and relates it to happiness, which is not a “one-time event.” “It’s like a comet with a very long tail that reaches into the past.” Thus, the author evokes memory and makes special mention of the work of Proust and Heideger who fought “temporal atrophy, the threat of the disintegration of time” and, quoting the German author, reminds us of his theory in which he states that «Man does not exist at every moment. It is not a being of moments. Existence covers the entire period that extends from birth to death. Because of the lack of external orientation, because there are no narrative anchors in the being, the strength must come from within oneself to contract the span between birth and death, and turn it into a living unit that penetrates and understands all events and all. the facts.” Thus, continuing with his allusions to Heideger, the author indicates that we must try to ensure that existence “does not disintegrate into momentary realities of experiences that happen and disappear”, an existence threatened by the ease with which we take snapshots of our reality, increasingly exposed and immortalized in a technology that favors digitalization that “aggravates the atrophy of time. “Reality disintegrates into information with a very small margin of relevance.” With this purpose, and linking technology with its use, the author also talks about social networks and cites the stories of Instagram stating that “they are a simple succession of snapshots that do not narrate anything. In reality, they are nothing more than visual information that disappears quickly. There is nothing left”, as well as the selfieswhich “do not serve to remember, but to communicate”, in an approach that he already shared in “The expulsion of the different” and that here he repeats by stating that “life cannot be narrated in the form of quantifiable events” in a bad way. use that enhances and magnifies narcissism, that great danger that “eliminates the gaze, that is, the other, and replaces it with an imaginary mirror image.”