Jonathan Gottschall on the stories we tell ourselves
Dialogues with Richard Reeves
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The Importance of Stories in Persuasion
Richard Vedder: I'm refusing on principle to watch the movie because so many liberal friends have just came and said it just tells you everything that's wrong with America. It does make me wonder a little bit about where you start your book when you start your argument, which is that story is a form of persuasion. He says stories really can be forces that Bill Bridges and bring people out of their entrenchments. And if we can resist telling them in the crudest and most primitive ways, they're the only things that are good at bringing people out of entrenchment. But part of storytelling, the sway of storytelling, is also exercised just to maintain our bonds, to maintain
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