THREAD:
“Storytelling is Life.”
Our power constellation of Imagination, Empathy, Connection; all revolve around it. It is the most human and most essential tool for innovation and for social change.
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#storytelling #fiction #innovation #metaverse
The ability and power to create and believe in mass fictions - money, geographical boundaries, religions - and then use them to organize & in turn to shape & change our reality is what differentiates humans from other animals. Brains 🧠 manifest.
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#storytelling #innovation
Yuval Harari. Neil Gaiman. Kurt Vonnegut. Leslie Marmon Silko. Amanda Gorman.
@harari_yuval @neilhimself @Kurt_Vonnegut @TheAmandaGorman
I think they all believe this about the great power of our stories and fictions.
I sure do. 🤷♂️
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“Storytelling is the way that unarticulated memory becomes art, becomes artifact, becomes fact, becomes felt again, becomes free. Empires have been raised & razed on much less."
— Amanda Gorman @TheAmandaGorman
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“We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things.”
— Neil Gaiman @neilhimself
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“All the true things I’m about to tell you are shameless lies.”
— Kurt Vonnegut @Kurt_Vonnegut
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“I will tell you something about stories. They aren't just entertainment. They are all we have to fight off illness and death. You don't have anything if you don't have stories.”
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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“Fiction isn’t bad. It is [a] vital [tool]. Without commonly accepted stories about things like money, states or corporations, no complex human society can function. We can’t play football unless everyone believes in the same made-up rules …” — @harari_yuval
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