The Basics Guide

Tag: Narrative Structure

  • Worldview as Cultural Infrastructure

    A person’s worldview shapes perception, action, and culture. Owning and sharing it builds coherence, trust, and influence. Shifting from passive inheritance to active authorship enables clarity and impact. Articulated worldviews become infrastructure—structuring relationships, guiding discourse, and enabling bottom-up cultural transformation.

  • Short Windows, Long Windows, and Why Context Is Everything

    Short Windows, Long Windows, and Why Context Is Everything

    A short window is a moment that appears to carry outsized impact—a perfectly timed phrase, a message dropped at just the right second, a window of attention you can supposedly hack. It tempts people who believe one bold move can alter everything.

  • Continuity

    Continuity preserves structure through change, enabling identity, meaning, and stability across systems. It holds memory, governs rhythm, and sustains coherence. Without it, fragmentation, mistrust, and collapse follow. Continuity isn’t rigidity—it’s the condition that makes adaptation, trust, and growth possible.

  • Bathos

    Bathos

    Bathos denotes a sudden transition from the profound to the trivial, often yielding a comedic outcome. Rooted in Greek origins and popularized by Alexander Pope in the 18th century, this concept spans various mediums, including literature and film, reflecting shifts in cultural aesthetics and values.