A philosopher argued we stopped believing in one big story that explains everything

Commissioned to report on the state of knowledge, Jean-François Lyotard argued that societies once organized themselves around grand 'metanarratives' — progress, science, religion, revolution — that promised to explain and justify everything. He claimed the postmodern condition is simply growing distrust of any such single, all-encompassing story.

— Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge — 1979
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