Sentence examples for consensus narrative from inspiring English sources

Getting caught up in a splinter narrative is actually easier than being appropriately skeptical of the consensus narrative.

Bu an emergent property of modern technology is that Western culture has increasingly fragmented from a single consensus narrative of the world to two or more — and the repercussions are remarkable.

But right now we seem to be at a weird worst-of-both-worlds intermediate point: we have an official consensus narrative, dictated by the same governments and massive media organizations who brought us the Iraq war, and, simultaneously, extremist splinter narratives promulgated via social media.

These splinter narratives sufficiently small in scope, and sufficiently internally consistent, that, just like the official consensus, they knit together into something that feels like the fabric of reality, if you don't look too closely… especially since, as the Iraq war proves, you actually can't trust the consensus narrative.

Nobody knows for sure what the BICI will say today and it would be unfair to suggest it won't ultimately agree with the consensus narrative already outlined by the eminent international human rights organizations.

Maybe it's really rather better-suited to fracturing the consensus narratives traditionally used to glue societies and peoples together because it's so good at isolating and magnifying differing viewpoints — and thus at ripping apart the social fabric along existing fault lines.

There is an avoidance of affect and a repudiation of the traditional liberal-lenient gestures of dialogue, dramatic consensus and narrative resolution.

After many failed attempts, there has still not been a successful truth commission to establish a consensus of narrative that could allow the region to come to terms with its past; instead, divides are entrenched along the lines of contested recent history.

This caused the consensus-generating narrative whose mobilising ability was evident in Tahrir Square to be replaced with warring identities: Islamic versus secular in Egypt and Sunni versus Shia in the region.

(Thanks, guys!) Here's the basic consensus: Though the words "narrative" and "story" are largely interchangeable, a "narrative" emphasizes the structural aspects of a story and the art of telling and controlling it to influence an audience.

With "Argo," Ben Affleck indulged in nostalgia for a narrative of consensus simplicity (and that is, itself, a grotesque oversimplification).