How Paris went from City to Porn Star

I've heard people say that the facts speak for themselves. But they don't. Facts are creatures of the Bonelands, mute and cold and unyielding as a marble pillar. And just as comforting. Facts say nothing. They need a storyteller. But tell a story and the facts don't matter. This is the challenge. This is the temptation.

Language and story renders the secrets of complex assemblies of facts understandable. Language and story allows us to devoted the universe and u understand the rules of the bonelands.

But language just as easily lies. And story just as easily misleads.

And our minds are ill equipped to judge the difference.

And so... dictators, false prophets, illusionists and stage psychics, con artists and reality television; all because our brains are wired to understand story and not fact.