純粋な情報伝達では人々を変えることはできません。

物語は効果があります。

「ミウィット」の罠とは、明示的な指示が暗黙の理解よりも優れていると考えることです。ある人は『人を動かす』を読んでテクニックを学びます。ある人は『存在の耐えられない軽さ』を読んで、あらゆる人間関係においてあらゆる人の立場になることがどのようなことか、愛が憎しみに変わるのを見守ること、社会がいかに個人の選択を制約し、形作っているかを学びます。

7. Stories trump information

Stories have closure. This is what sets them apart from ‘“information’, which is by its nature partial, incomplete, fragmentary. Susan Sontag argues this is the ‘moral obligation’ of a writer: to tell stories, because stories will hold our attention and allow us to make moral judgments—not just about what is better ,... See more

“These experiences are the mystic mental states that sages from days immemorial have preached as the highest good of human life. And in the case of literature, at least, the good really exists. The stretch has been connected by modern neuroscientists to significant increases in both our generosity and our sense of personal well-being. Which is to... See more