HMM. THE UTILITY OF STORYTELLING. It’s more that they’re universally accessible

HMM. THE UTILITY OF STORYTELLING.
It’s more that they’re universally accessible and they are accessible without specialist experience, study, or training.
It’s also more that they convey general principles more successfully (intuitively) even if they convey specifics poorly.
It’s also that all communication is in some sense storytelling. The question is, the degree of abstraction.

As such empathically accessible stories are more accessible and superior for conveyance of psychological content, while abstract accessible stories are superior for content that is NOT empathically accessible.

“Or as we say, calculus is hard. That doesn’t mean it’s wrong. Superstition, Sophistry and Deceit are easy. That doesn’t mean they’re right.”

Not everything can be dumbed down. However it is possible that everything important to teach a five year old about successfully (and morally) navigating life can be. 😉 There is more genius in Aesop than there is in most of the books of philosophical discourse.

Cheers

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