ABSTRACT
The whole world loves a storyteller. There is magic to the act of storytelling, a warmth of waiting as someone begins, “Once there was a …” The storyteller unravels the struggle of good and evil, gods and demons, humans and animals. The beauty of a good story is that it can be told again and again. But in the modern world, storytelling is dying out. The battle between good and evil is no longer embodied in myths, fables, anecdotes, or parables. The struggles of humankind are now sought to be captured in the grids of social science, and the classic narrative of social science is the bureaucratic report.
