Perhaps because it is through telling stories that I pay my rent, but I think that humans reason via analogy and storytelling. We attempt to get a handle on the present and predict the future through comparisons to stories of the past. If someone is trying to sell us some new music they do so by analogy. Check out Amy Winehouse, they tell us. She sounds like the unisexual mating of Dinah Washington and Janis Joplin.
Presidential elections function the exact...
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