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TOPIC: For Savile watchers
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Re:For Savile watchers 5 Years, 4 Months ago
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Thank you for that, JK. It's a very good piece from Andrew Rosthorn.
This quote, from a 1970s Duncroft resident, fascinates me: “Well, even back then, I noticed if you were talking about real abuse
it was boring, like any real story, it doesn’t have the right beginning,
middle and end, it doesn’t have the high points.” If we are so accustomed to drama, to narrative fiction, that we judge the credibility of a real-world account by the same standards, then we are likely to be captivated by the very stories we should trust the least.
Old-fashioned common sense ought to protect us from such making blunders...we all know that something can be 'too good to be true', even a story of appalling evil. Yet our rationality demands clear motivations, causes and effects, and a chain of events...something quite like narrative coherence.
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