I think I just broke the Code of the Liars Guild. My wife was teasing me about the veracity of a particular social media post of mine, and summed up her argument by derisivly calling me a "storyteller." She was so cute as she mocked me. Cackling madly, I revealed to her the Secret: that ever since the dawn of humanity, storytellers (and actors) have been liars and damn liars. We make shit up and hopefully get paid for it. This is the way.
One could make a strong argument that all culture, is story. That throughout time the thing we now call culture, science, the arts, music, religion, literature, all of it is fundamentally story. Story is the how and why of language. Story is projection into the future, which allows humans to survive and evolve.
If fact the world, as it is perceived is mostly story.
@corlin I completely agree. In my graduate program I wrote a paper on Walter Fisher's "narrative paradigm" communication theory, which matches your statement exactly.
Yep I read him also, Must have been channeling that memory.
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I've got many great stories, and the best ones are those full of truths. It doesn't all have to be true, but I think it must be far more difficult to make things up from whole cloth.
Certainly I remember my ancestors through their stories, and share those stories with my descendants.
Next weekend we're having a memorial for my father, and I'm looking forward to the stories.