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

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The Clash of Three Stories in Humanity

i think that the twentieth century is a clash of three stories. You can say that so far we've had two major stories in humanity's history. The first one was the story of religion. And then now this story is collapsing too, in a way. We need a new story to give us an idea about how we should coexist with each other. Science is no longer enough. Our myths, our stories are falling apart.

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