In this book, we point towards the ontologies of story and value. Story is real. And value is real. That is the reality consideration that we engage in this book.

Along the way we engage Yuval Harari’s rejection of the ontology of both Story and Value. Harari is perhaps the most popular parrot of the postmodern zeitgeist at this moment in time. Harari’s key idea is that we need a new story around which open societies can cohere in order to respond to the meta crisis.

However, Harari insists that all stories are nothing but fictional social constructs and that value itself is but a delusion, a human contrivance. This is a sure recipe for totalitarianism. It implies that a fictional story must be made up and imposed on the population through some form of totalitarian control, whether overt or covert.

In response to the deconstruction of Story and Value we must tell a new Story of Value that is aligned with the truth of Reality: Story is real. Value is real. Story and value are both eternal and evolving.

The leading-edge sources in the interior and exterior sciences now point towards a deeper realization: Reality is not merely a fact; Reality is a story. Reality is not an ordinary story; Reality is a Love Story, a Story of Eros Value. But the story of Reality, like all love stories, is unfinished.

Your love story is chapter and verse in the Universe: A Love Story. How you live your story changes Reality itself. The ultimate categorical imperative of Reality is therefore: live your story!