suspicious of stories??

Found this TEDx by Tyler Cowen interesting, yet disheveled and limited in focus.  But it is worth listening to, got the mental juices flowin, especially toward the end when he finished rambling about kinds of stories and why he is suspicious of them:

Tyler Cowen, you are putting a lot of unnecessary semantic constraints on the word story; as if the definitions of story are limited to linear narratives.  This is not true, stories are more than words or history.  stories have the power to engage and fuse all the senses at once, and convey knowledge, information, ideas, and inspiration.  If you read Leslie Marmon Silko (Ceremony is a good place to start) or several other Native American authors you will learn a lot about this concept.