'Among the skeptics, story’s innocence is never presumed. Story is frisked. Story is marched to the dock. “Every crisis is in part a storytelling crisis,” Rebecca Solnit wrote in the Guardian earlier this year. “This is as true of climate chaos as anything else. We are hemmed in by stories that prevent us from seeing, or believing in, or acting on the possibilities for change.”'

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/seduced-by-story-peter-brooks-bewitching-the-modern-mind-christian-salmon-the-story-paradox-jonathan-gottschall-book-review