narrative
Narrative is the art of wrapping our inadequacy in beautiful rhetoric, transforming failure into a heartwarming tale. It functions like a theater that gathers sympathy and applause while conveniently relegating real problems to intermission. Seasoned craftsmen stitch together patched facts to weave the backstage of a convenient history. Many actors compete for the role of protagonist, delivering loud monologues of self-justification. Every shred of reality is granted passage only through this sugary fiction.