Because Dragons Can Be Beaten

Stephen T. Harper
5 min readApr 20, 2020

Why we’ll always need Fairy Tales.

Photo by Антон Воробьев on Unsplash

Why do we humans tell stories we know aren’t true? Why do we want to listen to stories we know aren’t true? And why are stories that aren’t true so often longer-lasting and more powerful than stories that are?

Mark Twain once said. “A lie can travel half-way around the world while the truth is still putting its pants on.” He was being sarcastic, but…

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Stephen T. Harper

Cogito ergo…um… wait, I know this one, just give me a minute…