# Wait but why: The Story of Us

https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html

Perhaps one of the most thought-inspiring readings of 2019 and 2020 and re-reading/re-referencing since then for those interested to dissect today's politics with sharp analytical, structured, almost mathematical tooling without regard for any rigour and correctness. Insightful, entertaining, inspiring. Veeeeery long. Full of great illustrations.

Too good to easily summarise, almost everything quote-worthy.

Builds up a "blog-quality-theory" of today's political landscape and dynamics (I need to get a good word for this kind PhD thesis with blogosphere-quality-level rigour, but stratospheric passion behind). Starts with building up a thought framework for an individual and their focus on "stories" and "power" (this is an absolutely fascinating topic for me these years anyway) and our handling of stories and what they generate/invoke in our interactions. Then proceeds to generalise to society and study of societal dynamics which provides a background "theory" for explaining what's going on in politics in recent years.

Mostly US-centric, but I think also well applicable to many phenomena we observe in most of the [Western Culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_culture).

The series culminates in the post [Political Disney World](https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/12/political-disney-world.html) which is an extremely insightful (and entertaining!) big-picture explanation of political landscape, struggles and friction we observe every day, but fail to recognise the context of.

I'd be interested to hear about/read a take on this little "theory of everything political" attempt from a trained psychologist or a sociologist.

Recommended.