Fiction can be far more powerful than the truth, because storytelling is so universal, and its roots are so primal in all of us.
A thousand persuasive, logical, angry arguments against slavery by real abolitionists didn't change the minds of 1% of the people who wept over the fate of a fictional slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel (and who voted accordingly).
To this day the two most efficacious ways of teaching something are stories and games.
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Fiction can be far more powerful than the truth, because storytelling is so universal, and its roots are so primal in all of us.
A thousand persuasive, logical, angry arguments against slavery by real abolitionists didn't change the minds of 1% of the people who wept over the fate of a fictional slave in Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel (and who voted accordingly).
To this day the two most efficacious ways of teaching something are stories and games.