Do you think, John, that the preponderance of the word narrative is negative in that it feeds

into the notion of a person or a group having my truth or our truth. This is Kevin Pete asking this question.

Is this usage a legacy of postmodernism?

Seems to me it's a retreat from the straightforward notion of truth.

Yeah, I hate that word.

The way it's involved...

Narrative because it can be used to mean the way I feel, the way I choose to frame my story is an alternate

version of what the rest of you think of as empirical truth and you have to respect it because

I'm Brown.

I don't like it.

I don't like it at all.

Even say 20 years ago, the word narrative in that sense was pejorative.

I there was a what is it? Landmark uses it. You go to Landmark in order to figure out what to do with your life because you're feeling kind of lost.

Landmark at least 20 years ago was using that, oh no, you're being held back by a narrative.

No folks, I did not do Landmark, but back then many people thought that I should and so I went to a couple of foundational meetings. No you're being held back by a narrative and what they meant by that was something that does not correspond with reality.

But now, of course, I hate to say it, it's the CRT thing.

The idea is that the racial narrative coming from an individual represents that person.

You know Hassan Minhaj, the comedian, the South Asian comedian who's been caught telling stories

about racist things that happened to him that didn't actually

happen to him and he defends himself by saying that he's using these things in these routines

because he's representing people of his ethnicity and their experience.

That's the narrative thing.

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