💬 Opinion May 17, 2026 · Shmuel Klatzkin

Tale First, Facts Later

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All stories are not equal.
But we all equally live in stories.
Who we are we know by the story we tell ourselves. We spin the points of meaning we meet into a yarn, and the yarn we weave into a fabric, the fabric we shape into the clothes which we wear when we appear before the world and the people in it.
We may clothe ourselves in the dress of a rationalist, a follower of numbers and hard evidence. We may clothe ourselves as a storyteller in complete control of the tales we tell. But we all ali

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