In the dominant expressions of the religious traditions, certainty had a pretty high value. Certainty that I know who the right god is, and I didn’t get the wrong god, and I’m dedicated to that… and I’m certain enough that we can burn women as witches, and do crusades, and whatever we need to do because we have enough certainty about rightness… it’s actually an emotional structure, of associating certainty with security and value, and associating uncertainty, within security, a fear and lack of value, which is an emotional and existential bias, leading to a cognitive bias. So then Postmodernism saw these flaws, and it said shit — look at all the things that we fucked up in the name of over-certainty. All the things we were certain about that were wrong later, even within the sciences when we were pretty certain we had it all figured out, around the time of Maxwell’s equations, and modern physics fucked it all up, and this just happened so many times. We really shouldn’t ever be certain about anything, because historically we’ve been wrong about all of it. And whenever we were over-certain, we could do really terrible stuff.

– Daniel Shmachtenberger

I just listen to person.marc-gafni saying that storytelling is an intrinsic process of the cosmos and that postmodernism is saying all is just stories, to do they land on the same position?