 The story that a culture holds is the organizing principle of that culture and it the story gives meaning to the things that the people in that culture do and Orients them toward a collective aim and a collective purpose. I think that right now the dominant civilization of this planet is in a crisis of its story We so the question what is our story now? In a way you could say there isn't one We had one that still has a lot of power the story of humanity rising above nature to become the lords and masters of the material realm using all other beings and materials of nature for our purposes in this glorious enterprise of transcendence and domination like that was the story But today that story is dying because We don't resonate with it anymore, and it's not working It's the paradise that it was supposed to bring us has not come to fruition so we are in a crisis of meaning a crisis of our systems that are all built on the stories and nearing a point where we are Are ready for a new story