The White Album — When the Stories That Organize Reality Stop Working
We rely on stories to turn scattered events into something coherent. But what happens when the story itself stops explaining what we see?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The White Album by Joan Didion as our lens, this episode investigates narrative as a system for organizing perception. Across essays about personal disorientation, political movements, institutional behavior, media performance, cultural change, and California itself, Didion repeatedly examines the gap between the stories people construct and the reality those stories are…
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