Our stories shape the way we feel about our role in the world, the basic ideas we come to accept as the way the world functions. Hollywood makes dreams. Bollywood, maybe even more so. Fairy tales aren’t too different. Myths explained what the world was like and why it was like that, and not different.

Myths are still competing with each other and with reality, as when some try to argue that environmentalism had to be wrong because it was nothing more than a story of profligate consumption having to lead to a reckoning eventually, but also when different visions of the future are made to compete for followers.

There’s a problem, though.

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