El peligroso futuro de las historias

Shonda Rhimes es una de las personas más poderosas de la televisión americana por la calidad de sus historias. Que yo sea fan de sus historias, también es un hecho.

Hace unas semanas, TED (evento que es famoso precisamente por la forma de contar las ideas) publicó una entrevista con Shonda sobre el futuro de las historias.

Aquí una parte del transcript (lo dice mucho mejor que como yo lo puedo traducir):

"But honestly, it's a very hard world in which now, as grown-ups, we're so interested in watching our own thing, and we don't even know that we're being fed, sometimes, just our own opinions. You know, the way it's working now, you're watching a feed, and the feeds are being corrected so that you're only getting your own opinions and you're feeling more and more right about yourself. So how do you really start to discern? It's getting a little bit disturbing. So maybe it'll overcorrect, maybe it'll all explode, or maybe we'll all just become -- I hate to be negative about it, but maybe we'll all just become more idiotic.

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Well, you know, there's -- That's an intense subject to me, because I feel like the lack of narrative that a lot of people have is difficult. You know, like, there's a lot of organizations that don't have a positive narrative that they've created for themselves that would help them. There's a lot of campaigns that could be helped with a better narrative. The Democrats could do a lot with a very strong narrative for themselves. There's a lot of different things that could happen in terms of using storytelling voice, and I don't mean that in a fiction way, I mean that in a same way that any speechwriter would mean it. And I see that, but I don't necessarily know that that's, like, my job to do that."

Y no solo eso. Lo único malo no es que escogemos historias que le convienen a nuestras opiniones, también nos creemos nuestras propias mentiras (y estas nos limitan).

Conclusión: si vamos a desarrollar un súper poder, más vale usarlo para el bien.