Stories can be either bacteria or light; they can infect a system, or illuminate a world.
Birds of Heaven, Ben Okri
I had forgotten what a great book “Birds of Heaven” by Ben Okri is. It is a short book focused on the power of words and also the role of storytelling in the world. I guess it contains stories about stories.
Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the future consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histories for future flowerings.
