There was always gate keepers that kept crazy, a baseless stories under some sort of lid. But now all these gatekeepers have been by passed and rendered irrelevant. Now there's just no barrier to a crazy story's ability to sprea da beyond the confines of your little social network. It is completely main stream. And it just makes me wonder whether it's possible for a civilization to exist an enformation environment like this,.to thrive n and to hold itself together.
Humans are storytelling animals. Stories are what make our societies possible. Countless books celebrate their virtues. But Jonathan Gottschall, an expert on the science of stories, argues that there is a dark side to storytelling we can no longer ignore. Storytelling, the very tradition that built human civilization, may be the thing that destroys it.
In The Story Paradox, Gottschall explores how a broad consortium of psychologists, communications specialists, neuroscientists, and literary quants are using the scientific method to study how stories affect our brains.
In this conversation based on his new book, Gottschall reveals why our biggest asset has become our greatest threat, and what, if anything, can be done. It is a call to stop asking, “How we can change the world through stories?” and start asking, “How can we save the world from stories?”