{"id":35890,"date":"2026-01-23T15:16:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=35890"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:16:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:16:37","slug":"guest-contributor-tregonsee-23jan2026-often-unreliable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/guest-contributor-tregonsee-23jan2026-often-unreliable\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Contributor &#8211; Tregonsee &#8211; 23JAN2026 &#8211; Often Unreliable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the fondness for first person (often unreliable) or third person limited viewpoint comes from a fundamental aspect of modernist philosophy. That aspect is that in modernist thought there is NO absolute truth. There\u2019s my truth and your truth and (heaven help us) Kamala Harris\u2019s truth. The Omniscient narrator belies this point, for that story, their narrative<strong>\u00a0is<\/strong>\u00a0the truth. They deny that such can exist in support of their raging relativism. I think the second issue is the types of \u201cstories\u201d they write. Plot is limited or irrelevant, the characters aren\u2019t characters but more archetypes or mouthpieces for their viewpoints. They view the whole purpose of literature to essentially be propaganda. The more traditional is that we are telling a story. There is probably meaning there but in general rarely is allegory the prime purpose. Not to say this doesn\u2019t happen, e.g.<em>\u00a0Starship Troopers\u00a0<\/em>is a polemic on Duty, but honestly, it is also a hell of a good story. Thirdly, the modern literature folks are oddly like what the Puritans were alleged to be. 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