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Governments aren't very good at telling stories.
We wanted to share our stories with each other.
As a culture, we tell ourselves lots of stories about the future, and where we might move forward from this point.
Some of those stories are that somebody is just going to sort everything out for us.
Other stories are that everything is on the verge of unraveling.
Like all stories, it has a beginning.
But I'm always very interested to think about what might the stories be that the generations further down the slope from us are going to tell about us.
And one of the ways I like to do that is to look back at the stories people used to tell before we had cheap oil, before we had fossil fuels, and people relied on their own muscle, animal muscle energy, or a little bit of wind, little bit of water energy.
We had stories like "The Seven-League Boots": the giant who had these boots, where, once you put them on, with every stride you could cover seven leagues, or 21 miles, a kind of travel completely unimaginable to people without that kind of energy at their disposal.
Stories like The Magic Porridge Pot, where you had a pot where if you knew the magic words, this pot would just make as much food as you liked, without you having to do any work, provided you could remember the other magic word to stop it making porridge.
And what are the stories that we tell ourselves now, as we look forward about where we're going to go.
I think I'd like to just return at the end to the idea of stories.
Because I think stories are vital here.
And actually the stories that we tell ourselves, we have a huge dearth of stories about how to move forward creatively from here.
And one of the key things that transition does is to pull those stories out of what people are doing.
Stories about the community that's produced its own 21 pound note, for example, the school that's turned its car park into a food garden, the community that's founded its own energy company.
And for me, one of the great stories recently was the Obamas digging up the south lawn of the White House to create a vegetable garden.
Your call may be recorded so that they can collect the funniest dumb user stories and pass them around on a CD.
So, some of the stories are just so classic, and yet so understandable.
And I tell you stories from there.
I have hundreds and thousands of stories of very very well-to-do families, and children from well-to-do families, who are getting trafficked.
And over there I experienced other people's suffering, up close and personal, immersed myself in some rather intense and emotional stories, and at times I experienced great fear for my own life.
And I decided that I had compromised, just like my friends in those discussions, where we told stories in contexts we made excuses for, rather than taking responsibility for.
And it is, for me, a language which expressed the intangible, and gives voice to people and stories without.
I invite you into three recent stories of mine, which are about this way of looking, if you will, which I believe exemplify the tenets of what I like to call compassion in storytelling.
Sometimes, when the war is over and all the film crews have left, the most inspiring stories are the ones that float just beneath the radar.
And one editor told me that she wasn't interested in doing what she called "manual labor stories."
In 2007 and 2009 I did stories on the Delhi Fire Service, the DFS, which, during the summer, is probably the world's most active fire department.
Here are some of the stories they wanted us to share with you.
And for me, I guess, the litmus test for whether this would work, and what it would mean, was always going to be bedtime stories, because that's sort of where the journey began.
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