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    "title": "Systems and Stories",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2010-05-29 16:42:59 UTC",
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>Curiously the phrase \u00e2\u0080\u0098everything happens for a reason\u00e2\u0080\u0099 is used to talk about systems and stories, but the \u00e2\u0080\u0098reasons\u00e2\u0080\u0099 are in opposite temporal directions. In system thought it means everything is necessitated somehow by the previous state of the system, in story thought it means every occurrence will have future social significance if it does not already.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http://meteuphoric.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/systems-and-stories/\">Systems and stories \u00c2\u00ab Meteuphoric</a>.</p>\n"
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