It is one of the seeming paradoxes of modern Western culture that never before have there been so many stories told, and never before have we taken stories less seriously. Of course, in some sense, the economic law of supply and demand explains this. When supply increases but demand stays fixed, the price goes down. The more stories told, the less value they have. To change the metaphor, it’s like the nutritional content of food were to drop the more you ate. You would keep eating, trying t...
