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Will Storr on the Science of Storytelling: We’re storytelling animals

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Human Rights in the Dark Ages

Human rights are a literary invention according to some people, of the eighteenth century european novels. So the idea of human rights didn't even exist as an idea. And so i'm thinking, if we come up with another idea of that kind of sort, because the world is changed by those stories every time. Like when you're playing socker in the world cup. Let's say you're a from the u k. You have a very strong team in from bulgaria. Buta, we don't take ak forty seven shooting at each other. We may shout and we may wave our flags, but we the story of the rules of the game of sucker, and that

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