storylessness

MICHAEL SANDEL: "Storylessness -- the drift to storylessness," the tendency in our culture and in our public life for everything to be fragmented: for political discourse, political argument to be fragmented; for people to be dislocated; for communities that give people a sense of place in the world to be eroded, from families to neighborhoods, schools, congregations, nations.

Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy 1996

At the very end of your book, the last paragraph, you say the following: "Since human beings are story telling beings, we are bound to rebel against the drift to storylessness."

Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy 1996

As he turns the bracing storylessness of human life into the flaccid narrativity of biography, he cannot worry about the people who never asked to be dragged into his shaky enterprise.’

Two Lives « Tales from the Reading Room 2009