We have the opportunity to write an infinite story, but time and time again write a finite one.

(Like the infinite game, an infinite story aims to include as many as possible for as long as possible, and when the rules get in the way, they’re changed.  On the other hand, the finite game is exclusive: some win, and the winners make the rules – most don’t even get to play.)

Yuval Noah Harari contends that Humans stepped outside their biological instincts to create larger cooperative networks: ‘humans created imagined orders and devised scripts.  These two inventions filled the gaps left by our biological inheritance.’*

These devices, though, have created inequality and distinction not based on reality: men and women, blacks and whites, residents and aliens, rich and poor, and all the others.  They’re all bubbles we create to live in.

The same devices can write a different story.

My friend Alex** claims we are Human Becomings.  Those who see the fictions, see through them, aiming to script a better story, are such Becomings.  The attempts might be clumsy, but when we keep in mind all can thrive, we’re heading in the right direction: hope for outsiders and insiders of the stories in the bubbles.

(*From Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens.)
(**See Alex McManus’s Makers of Fire.)