A story can save your life.
As surely as knowing how to find your way out of the wilderness a story can guide you through the tangled mess we've created for ourselves.
All of what I am about to tell you actually happened. Right up until we open the door at the back of the room. Once we do that it's the future. It's our future and I can see it as clearly as I can see my own past.
I need about an hour of your precious life to tell you this story that's taken me 15 years to find out.