Everything is a story…

A very interesting article on Larping (Live Action Role Playing) which highlights something buried deep down near the roots of the human condition.

One of the key messages of the book Sapiens is that we live in a world of stories. Companies are stories; countries, currencies, governments, and religions too.

Base reality is physics and chemistry, everything else is a story…

  …even ourselves. This is rarely clearer than in this article.

 “So much of adult life is about LARPing, whether or not people realise it. When you take on a new job, you have to learn how to play that part, you have to learn how to act as that job.”

https://www.wired.com/2017/06/geeks-guide-larping/

My #top100 #scifi Num:51 The Fountains of Paradise

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An elevator to space – a crazy idea at the time, made so plausible and obvious that today we assume it’s only a matter of time. Clark carving the possible with imagination. Direct and straightforward prose. Probably the last of his best. 

My #top100 #scifi Num:55 The integral Trees

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The Smoke Ring is a free-fall environment. A Jupiter-sized planet which once orbited the systems neutron star, ripped apart by hideous gravities, now exists as a hoop of habitable gas.  
Tribes of humans, separated from technology have gone native. 
What a backstory!