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Storytelling: Bewitching the Modern Mind | Christian Salmon
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Politics, as currently practiced, is no longer the art of the possible, but the art of the fictive. Its aim is not to change the world as it exists, but to affect the way it is perceived. This is the subject of Christian Salmons Storytelling, which looks at how the creative imagination has been hijacked in the twenty-first century. Salmon anatomizes the timeless human desire for narrative form and how it is abused in the marketing mechanisms behind politicians and products: luxury brands trade on their embellished histories, managers tell stories to motivate employees, soldiers in Iraq train on computer games conceived in Hollywood, and spin doctors construct political lives as if they were a folk epic. Salmon unveils the workings of a storytelling machine more effective and insidious as a means of oppression than anything dreamed up by Orwell. The reality-based communityto use a phrase coined by an aide to George W. Bushis now regularly outmaneuvered by public relations gurus and political advisers, as they construct story arcs for a population that has come to expect them.
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Found this game and thought it would be fun to see how it went! Can‘t wait to see where this story leads!

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wanderinglynn Her book of fairy tales lay open on the desk beside her. 11mo
julesG Behind her, the fire was crackling in the hearth. 10mo
Meshell1313 Suddenly, she heard a knock at the door. 10mo
dabbe She fuzzily came to, and while mumbling to herself, shuffled to the door. 10mo
SaunteringVaguelyDownwards She opened the door; at first glance, she didn't see anybody there, but then she looked down. 10mo
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Ddzmini
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So me 😝🤣🤣🤣

Lreads Same! It frustrates my husband sometimes. 🙃😁 5y
LauraBeth 😹😹 @QuietlyLaura my husband is always like, “Can we please land the plane?!” 5y
Lreads @LauraBeth 😂😂👏 5y
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DGRachel A friend from college swears I am incapable of telling a short story. He‘s not wrong. 😂 5y
sprainedbrain Ummm. This is me too! 😂 5y
ForeverReader This is definitely me! 😂 5y
Ddzmini @QuietlyLaura @DGRachel @sprainedbrain and @ForeverReader well we are in good company 🙏🤷‍♀️ 5y
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