It is also simplistic to think that since people can't handle the truth, lies are better.
narrative per se is not bad, but lies are.
Of course we can resort to Gödel and his incompleteness theorem to reject axioms validity, but try that argument at the bar, with the first stranger you meet.
The bigger picture requires profound knowledge of the current laws to imagine how they could break under a new, different paradigm.
Think about Asimov's work, he was writing fiction, but was writing something that could happen, not something just because it could bond people together.
TL;DR: saying "we need to switch to renewable sources of energy or we'll all die" is fiction, we don't know for sure if we'll all die, but it's good to switch to renewables.
"If you do this or that God will punish you" is a lie that nobody should tell and nobody should believe in, even when it sounds good (thou shalt not kill), you shouldn't do it because it's bad, not because God told you.
narrative per se is not bad, but lies are.
Of course we can resort to Gödel and his incompleteness theorem to reject axioms validity, but try that argument at the bar, with the first stranger you meet.
The bigger picture requires profound knowledge of the current laws to imagine how they could break under a new, different paradigm.
Think about Asimov's work, he was writing fiction, but was writing something that could happen, not something just because it could bond people together.
TL;DR: saying "we need to switch to renewable sources of energy or we'll all die" is fiction, we don't know for sure if we'll all die, but it's good to switch to renewables.
"If you do this or that God will punish you" is a lie that nobody should tell and nobody should believe in, even when it sounds good (thou shalt not kill), you shouldn't do it because it's bad, not because God told you.