Continuing this post, see this article for some samples of new tales addressing today's critical issues.
"In campaigning for change, the art of storytelling has been too often replaced with reliance on a deluge of facts and polices. Progressives have learned the hard way in an age of Brexit and Trump
that it is messages that resonate with mythologies – such as 'making
America great again' tapping the former frontier optimism of
nation-builders, or 'taking back control' for the brave, resilient
island – are impervious to fact and rational argument. In both you might
also glimpse the village whipped up by the charismatic trickster who
appears in its midst, into a fury of self-destructive suspicion and
isolation. If you want change to happen, you have to change deeply
embedded cultural narratives. Progressive politics needs better stories as much as it needs facts and policies. Without them it will flail and flounder."
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