Informant38

Storytelling is not entertainment. Or if it is it is in the sense that sex is physical exercise.
Storytelling, like sex, is an essential part of human continuation. It's how what we are moves through time.
The question I'm asking is how is it that people so willingly accept placing the telling of stories to their children into the hands of strangers. Or accepted, because once it was done for a generation or two it became just how things are; like streets full of machines spewing poison gas, you get used to it, it's how it is, how it was when you were too young to know anything.
It's about control, as are most of the problematic elements of how we live. The strange sexual taboos with their unnatural rules are about control first and sex second, and it's the same with storytelling. Once you control the stories children hear you control their view of the world.