Self-destroying meme

[nancylebov]

What are the stories that no one has an incentive to tell?

Tyler Cowan on why stories are a risky way of organizing information.

Link thanks to patrissimo.

Comments

[trinker.livejournal.com]

Damn.

Wow.

I love the TED stuff.

I need to go chew on that for a while.

[siderea]

Oh, yeah. I know that one: the Story of How You Were Born To Think Wrong, aka the atheist's version of original sin.

[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Hm. I find myself unmoved and rather unconvinced.