BIG HISTORY, SCIENCE AND MYTH: A RESPONSE TO LISA SIDERIS
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In an interesting article posted on this website, Lisa Sideris has challenged the need for Big History and the New Cosmology. She see these concepts as not only as unnecessary but as even harmful. This article is a response to Ms. Sideris’ position. It challenges her perspective and explains not only why they are need but why they are essential. G HISTORY, SCIENCE AND MYTH: A RESPONSE TO LISA SIDERIS
- Used by people who call the work: Big History, New Cosmology, The New Story
- Applies a deep time evolutionary perspective to: Ecology/Sustainability, Religion/Spirituality
- Keywords: Big History,New Cosmology
- Why I love this Resource: Shows Importance of Big History and New Cosmology
- File:https://dtnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Lisa-Sideris-response-3.pdf
- Posted By: Mike Bell
- Date Added: January 27, 2016
Hi Mike – Also thought Ms. Sideris’s article quite interesting but also recognize that trying to address the evolution of human cultures and all of the side affects we have on the planet is very difficult to accomplish in relatively short articles. This debate of how humans need to evolve based on a story is obviously quite old – we have been telling stories for an awfully long time – and unfortunately the relative truth of any story (what I have come to call the Fog of Truth) is always questionable which also must include the human tendency to find… Read more »
Hi Rich, Thanks for your response. I agree with your comments about the difficulty with stories. Part of the problem is that our culture sees stories as unreal: either made-up fairy tales for children or imaginary stories on television–soap operas, detective stories or tales of derring-do facing walking zombies. I’ve had some experience working with indigenous people who have a very different concept of story. There is a story about a First Nation (tribe) in Northern British Columbia that wanted to begin working on its land claim. The band council and some elders were meeting with federal civil servants who… Read more »