Jun 18, 2023·edited Jun 18, 2023Liked by Erin O'Connor
[QUOTE} Story collapses the difference between self and other – a phenomenon with huge implications for how we think about change at the individual, cultural, and political levels. People willingly try on new identities through story – which means story opens them to new ways of thinking, perceiving, and being. [/QUOTE]
Huge implications indeed. Raw news reports are more remote from what a person can relate to, feel, experience, than a story involving the same elements.
A story, if good enough, will capture a person's interest in a way logic and facts will not.
[QUOTE} Story collapses the difference between self and other – a phenomenon with huge implications for how we think about change at the individual, cultural, and political levels. People willingly try on new identities through story – which means story opens them to new ways of thinking, perceiving, and being. [/QUOTE]
Huge implications indeed. Raw news reports are more remote from what a person can relate to, feel, experience, than a story involving the same elements.
A story, if good enough, will capture a person's interest in a way logic and facts will not.
Really significant.
Fascinating and a little creepy in a seductive way.