The Great Storytellers

There is perhaps no more fitting title to adorn academics than that of society’s great storytellers.

For what is an academic but one who purposefully divorces themselves from life, in order to invent all manner of fiction.

For it is not enough to see what is before you plainly, and act according to nature’s evolved rationality. One must feel as though they have more control than nature’s random misgivings. We must have a monarchy of analysis and research to kneel to, and to thank when our days conclude without hazard.

We must have reasons for what we see, and choose to affix our actions to the anchors and lines drawn by those who have spent the time to reveal them.

But those anchors and lines are not so real after all. For one can always rationalize a turn of events. There is no lack of reasons. No great prevention that would otherwise thwart the drawing of such connections.

We live and die by the stories we tell. An academic has not penetrated the human bias of storytelling, they have merely dressed it up and supercharged it under the guise of institutional authority and societal ignorance.

Never underestimate the ability of the protected class to legitimize narrative.

They are, by all logical accounts, the great storytellers among us.