Compelling thread on the importance of storytelling.

Call me naïve, I just get hung up on this bit 2 tweets in: "even when it's not true..."

Isn't that it right there?

Liars lie because it's advantageous to them, but a lie is still a lie. https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/1325545840031784962

It's a lot easier to sound good, if you're telling a lie.

There's a reason novels sound so much better than, y'know, real books. They are lies. (Sit down, novelists. Yes, you made a choice between telling the truth and sounding good, and you chose the lie.)

And then there's the right-wing media echo chamber that elevates those lies like gospel.

(Another good thread worth scrolling through: https://twitter.com/mattsheffield/status/1324908316548493313