In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.
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It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern.
The telling of stories creates the real world.
I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.
Stories are one of the means by which a culture preserves its identity.
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.
Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about.
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.
A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.