The Importance of Teaching an Origin Story

The idea of teaching an origin story vanished after 1900, he says. "It's something that everyone did in every society in the world before about 1900" That sense of loss has shaped a lot of 20th century literature art,. You've got the art of the 20s. It's all about chaotic, cubist world, broken into fragments. But maybe beneath the chaos, what's happening is we're slowly, we can slowly tease out a new story and that's what I'd like to think Big History is doing.