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From the Ted Talk by George Monbiot: The new political story that could change everything
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Now, we are creatures of narrative, and a string of facts and figures, however important facts and figures are — and, you know, I'm an empiricist, I believe in facts and figures — but those facts and _______ have no power to displace a persuasive story. The only thing that can replace a story is a story. You cannot take away someone's _____ without giving them a new one. And it's not just stories in _______ that we are attuned to, but particular narrative structures. There are a ______ of basic plots that we use again and again, and in politics there is one basic plot which _____ out to be tremendously powerful, and I call this "the restoration story." It goes as follows.
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Original Text
Now, we are creatures of narrative, and a string of facts and figures, however important facts and figures are — and, you know, I'm an empiricist, I believe in facts and figures — but those facts and figures have no power to displace a persuasive story. The only thing that can replace a story is a story. You cannot take away someone's story without giving them a new one. And it's not just stories in general that we are attuned to, but particular narrative structures. There are a number of basic plots that we use again and again, and in politics there is one basic plot which turns out to be tremendously powerful, and I call this "the restoration story." It goes as follows.
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