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The "Story" is the main unit of transmission for the hooman brain and as such has a number limitation as well as benefits.

One limitation is that stories must follow templates. It needs a hero, villain, climax, happy ending, etc.. this requires contortion, elimination, and sometimes even outright fabrication of information in order to make the story "whole"

Another is that a story is told only from one perspective with a clear moral compass of good and evil. To see the information from another perspective requires recreation of ANOTHER story with a different set of heroes/villains/etc...

This not only requires good story telling ability, but also the technical skill to express the idea in the medium (writing/comic/speech/etc..) as well as a true belief in a different set of heroes/villains.

That is... not only is diversity of values required but that diversity needs to be proficient and willing with regards to telling the story.

The benefit of a story is like the benefit of the shipping container. It is robust and easily transmissible. It can be part of the global economy of ideas with little friction. It is very scalable.

Neutral information, while it has the benefit of being able to be parsed from a variety of different perspectives, lacks the integrational capacity of a Story. Providing neutral information without embedding it in story is the equivalent of shouting into the void.