Narratives are four-dimensional casual chains that link events together in a way that demonstrates a theory. The same event might occur in multiple narratives. For example:
8:46 AM – Flight 11 crashes into the World Trade Center’s North Tower. All passengers aboard are instantly killed, and employees of the WTC are trapped above the 91st floor.
That actually happened, but there are an infinitude of stories that all share that event.
Compression is the utility of the tool.
Plausibility is a necessary element.
Shared stories allow us to compress a chain of real literal events into an agile, theoretical constructs which we can pass around in a variety of ways. Once distributed, each individual who knows the story may decompress that construct into a copy of the original series of events adapted to their specific goals and environment. The implications are yours to interpret however they suit you.
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