The Roots of Everything

The discovery that the Earth orbits the sun had significance outside of science. It also created a transition from the Christian spiritual order back to the old worship of pagan deities and astrology, which simultaneously produced the justification for the absolute power of the state.

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The whole crux of scientific thinking is to view the world as a machine. But is this really justified or just part of our Western imaginative framework? What are the alternatives, and how do we even think about the world otherwise?

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No way of viewing the world is "neutral," and the scientific worldview is no exception. Our idea of "science" comes out of our distinctly Faustian view of the world, one that is both deeply religious and has one ultimate goal in mind: world domination.

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Since the Scientific Revolution, we've been telling ourselves a very specific narrative about our own history, one that's so biased even secular scholars now refer to it as the "myth of progress." But myth or not, it still rules our imaginations.

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Folk stories used to be local, human, and participatory, but in our time stories have become corporatized and dis-incarnated. Are tabletop games, and role-playing games in particular, a way we return to local stories that we both tell and inhabit?

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