Three False Narratives

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Crisis Magazine offers three examples of how we misinterpret today’s news in terms of yesterday’s frame of reference.
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One way to mitigate the stress of future shock is to pretend to oneself that nothing has really changed. Thus, a common response to novel situations is to try to understand them from within old and comfortable frameworks. We take new facts and new developments and try to force them into old narratives even though the old paradigms aren’t adequate to contain them. Explanations that were useful in analyzing events that happened half a century or more ago are hauled out to explain new situations that bear only a surface similarity to the old ones.
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Old narrative: Blacks are victims of white racism.

New reality: Blacks are victims of dysfunctional family and social systems created by perverse paternalistic incentives.
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Old narrative: Diversity is our strength and immigration enriches a nation.
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New reality: Too much diversity can destroy a society.
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Old narrative: Islam is a religion of peace, and extremists are a tiny minority.
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New reality: ISIS, Boko Haram, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, al-Nusra, al-Shabbab, Hezbollah, Hamas, suicide bombers, lone wolves, beheading of children, sex slavery, forced conversions, celebration of baby-killing, attacks on school children, hundreds of thousands of Christians fleeing their homes, anti-Semitic mobs in Europe.
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I agree more with the new reality but I am not sure what point is trying to be made.
 
interesting read - especially in light of the events in France today.
 
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