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It's not about truth, it's just a reflection on packaging and presentation of ideas. You're taking it too literally.

The argument boils down to anything you can't explain doesn't exist, which is shortsighted and pseudointellectual. It's an Agile project manager's understanding of Story. A top comment mentions physics, and I would suggest the concept of mental illness and "hurt feelings" also qualifies.

We don't understand a fucking thing about psychology (the field is rife with fraud and psychiatrists are no more effective than shamans), though there are clearly problems that exist within people's brains. Schizophrenia is very real to the afflicted, yet they can't coherently explain their experience. That doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Whether it's True or Real or not isn't really the point.



I get the basic premise: the idea is that storytelling is how to explain concepts and ideas. It's just one of those glaringly obvious observations.

> The argument boils down to anything you can't explain doesn't exist, which is shortsighted and pseudointellectual.

Yeah, 100% agree. I prefer the old Feynman's quote (paraphrasing): If you can't explain it to a 5 year old, then you probably don't understand it.

(that doesn't mean it doesn't exist)




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