Stories are more important than facts

We believe in lots of fictional stories as if they were true facts about reality and complain that other people do not believe in these "facts". I think it is time to realize, that our stories are just as fictional as other people's stories and create a story, that everyone could believe in.

Yuval Noah Harari talks about fictional stories:

Spiens: A Brief History of Human Kind:

[LadyMontane]

I felt the influence of Prof. Harari throughout another one of your videos - "Do we all live in the same reality?" (watched it just before this one). Your vids are spot on - maybe it's because I share your views and it's nice to get them presented in a coherent way, haha. It's cool to learn that we both are fans of the same scientist :)

[zunaidraoha]

Fact is telling, stories r more important than facts

[richardjefferson]

Hi. You had a video up before about ‘why do we care about certain deaths more than others.’ I think that is very timely - George Floyd. I think the incident was horrible and I think blacks suffer more abuse from cops than whites... but I also think we allow one case to make us believe the problem is bigger than it is (we are emotionally driven) / worth addressing. This country has limited resources and this problem isn’t big enough to justify fixing it considering how hard and costly it will be to fix. The FDA allows a certain amount of rat parts into all of our food not because they think it’s good but because it would cost too much to make it 0%. NTSB allows... etc. And I am black, BTW. Bro, your videos are well-argued, well-produced and very funny. The most enlightened and artist and kind and interesting among us are never celebrated.... because most simply don’t have the eyes to see it. Rock on... and repost that video.

[yalkn]

"Toyota isn't real" ...ok

[BronzeBound]

Brushing off humanities ratiocinational superiority, and the innovation, exceptionality, and progress therefrom so candidly and unsupported is appalling logically, your assertion against mans survival instincts is a compositional fallacy at best, your assertion against modern-mans survival chances in the wild is ironically due to the results of decadent, safe, and prosperous civilization as benefited us by the initial point; and to claim certain ideas to be "dysfunctional and outdated" without clarifying by what measure such consideration is to be made (my own philisophical tradition would propose incompatibility with objective axioms, mans nature and reality - rendering those 'stories' of more worth fact, or close to) leads me to believe we are excercising a quasi-collectivistic/majority pragmatic compatibility with instantaneous societal norms - which is essentially circular logic as one would seemingly have to bolster this idea by the assertion of primacy of idea over fact and reject objective reality and axiomatic deductive reasoning as an alternative.

[Davos-stok]

Why do you compare humans and animals on the basis of survival in the wild? Human beings are adapted to thrive in the civilisations they have constructed. Money has value by fiat. Corporations, nations, judicial systems are veritable entities. Are you arguing that intangible things are all figments or one's imaginations? Toyota is a corporation, a legal entity that exists under the framework of the law, hence a judge order to dissolve it would nullify its existence. The last part of your video is premised on such cretinous logic that its hard to watch. How are 'money' and 'politics' fictional stories? How is working for money to buy food a fiction? This embarrassing video could've been avoided if you had even a rudimentary understanding of economics.