The Utopia Of A Shared Narrative That Looks To The Future

This article aims to show how narration can be classified as the main way in which the subject understands and transforms the external world. After pointing out how everyone is immersed, from birth, in innumerable predefined narratives, it will be argued, however, how human beings are able to create new narratives through an imaginative exploration of possibilities. This imaginative exploration is directed towards a projectuality concerning the future and, in this sense, narrative is the main means of symbolically constructing a common future. Within the latter lie future generations who, it is argued, must be made part of our collective narrative.