I have been hearing the word narrative thrown around a lot in the news and in counter-news articles.
umm, reality isn’t a storybook – so what does this even mean?
Note: I did a quick search about narrative first and found only [one relevant eli5](https://redd.it/b8utov), but I don’t understand it… so if we’re actually talking about the same thing then I need an ELI5 on their ELI5
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So I think there is a confusion of terms here (or conflation is probably more accurate).
When it comes to facts (ie gravity pulls objects with mass toward each other) there isn’t such a thing.
However political issues, say abortion, has some gray area as far as when a life is a life, people cherry pick what information they use to support their arguments thus supporting their belief in their narrative.
Basically the same idea as a documentary. They clearly interviewed real people and found actual documents, but which parts of the interview they use and which parts of the document they put on the black screen between scenes is used to support whatever narrative the film is putting out there
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