Narrative storytelling reveals inner conflicts that polemics and polls cannot.

Evidence

Stories connect us to each other. In ways that polemics and polls cannot, they can reveal our conflicts within ourselves and our vulnerabilities to each other. Stories can describe why certain choices are made and others are passed over, and they can reveal the colors of our emotions. Stories have the capacity to convert a line drawing into flesh, to dislodge the power of the presumption and prejudice. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 61