A new theory without a new practice is simply a new map with no real territory, or what is generally called ‘ideology’.       –Ken Wilber Excerpt B I cannot recommend highly enough Juma and Trevor’s excellent piece (subtitled: Putting Girth In your Quadrants).  My reading of that piece sparked the initial thought that lead to the following contribution.

Adam Gopnik writes: As the Bacchae knew, we always tear our Gods to bits, and eat the bits we like. Still, a real, unchangeable difference does exist between what might be called storytelling truths and statement-making truths—between what makes credible, if sweeping, sense in a story and what's required for a close-knit metaphysical argument. Certain kinds of truths are convincing only in a narrative.