The Other Triumph of Luis Enrique

El Pais

Lean Left

Factuality

Ownership

The science of telling stories (Captain Swing), by Will Storr, is an interesting and revealing book. In it one of the sexiest aspects of power is broken up: narration. In the first human communities, information was vital and served to order hierarchies. In the event that a rumor was circulated that affected someone who had put the interests of the group before his own, “a wave of good feelings flooded the receivers of the narrative.” However, i…