La crisis de la narración

Narratives create bonds. What connects and links us is born from them. In this way, they found communities and save us from contingency. However, today, when everything has become arbitrary and haphazard, storytelling has become a commercial weapon that transforms storytelling into one more tool of capitalism, propagating amid the disorientation and lack of meaning characteristic of the society of information. Storytelling and information are opposing forces. The spirit of the narration is lost among the information that turns individuals into consumers, lonely and isolated, dedicated to moments, with the aim of increasing their performance and productivity. Only the narration is the one that elevates us and unites us through a common history of communicable experiences that make the passage of time meaningful, contributing a transforming power to society; it is the only one that can gather us around the fire to give us meaning. This narrative crisis has vast precedents, which Byung-Chul Han investigates in this essay, and which are a continuation of his reflections on the information society.