The association between story and reality is completely arbitrary. (Science? Science is a craft for creating stories closely coupled to reality. It's a special

The association between story and reality is completely arbitrary. (Science? Science is a craft for creating stories closely coupled to reality. It's a special case and not as popular as you might think.) To get popular a story needs to be simple, satisfying, logically consistent with the other stories... I think that covers it. Reality? LOL. We are bronze-age mud-worshippers.