Stories are to thinking like air is to combustion. You don’t realize how important they are until you try to think in a story vacuum.
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Wait, how do you even find a story vacuum? Society _abhors_ a story vacuum.
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By confusing yourself to the point where you have to tell yourself a new story to get out
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Story vacuums can be way more fun than the impression I get from this tweet. Assuming that what I'm thinking of as "story vacuum" is anything like what you're using that term to mean.
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This is why I prefer “narratives we live by” as opposed to “metaphors we live by”.
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