{"id":88,"date":"2009-10-21T06:02:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T06:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/?p=88"},"modified":"2014-10-02T12:18:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T12:18:58","slug":"metanarratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/2009\/10\/metanarratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Metanarratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metanarrative\">Metanarrative &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; attempts to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">construct<\/span> <strong>grand theories<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tend to dismiss the naturally existing chaos and disorder of the universe<\/span>. Second, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">metanarratives are created and reinforced by power structures and are therefore not to be trusted.<\/span><\/strong> &#8216;Metanarratives&#8217; ignore the heterogeneity or variety of human existence. They are also seen to embody unacceptable views of historical development, in terms of progress towards a specific goal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=27fe0d64-97c1-8985-9e80-b41561eccbf3\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metanarrative &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia &#8230; attempts to construct grand theories tend to dismiss the naturally existing chaos and disorder of the universe. Second, metanarratives are created and reinforced by power structures and are therefore not to be trusted. &#8216;Metanarratives&#8217; ignore the heterogeneity or variety of human existence. They are also seen to embody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,69],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-mind-menagement","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gentlejunk.net\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}