"When it comes to uniting people around a common story, fiction actually enjoys three inherent advantages over the truth. First, whereas the truth is universal, fictions tend to be local. Consequently if we want to distinguish our tribe from foreigners, a fictional story will serve as a far better identity marker than a true story... … Continue reading Why Fiction Trumps Truth
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The Knowledge Ornament
"Knowledge must be burned, hammered and beaten like pure gold. Then one can wear it like an ornament." —Tibetian scripture referenced in Chögyam Trungpa, "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism." Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1973. Pg. 17.
