A dry recitation of facts or analysis is a flat, or even one dimensional way to describe reality. A reader or listener of such a production will only engage it with a small part of their being--their reason or intellect. The portion of reality that such a discourse can illuminate is small. It's like taking a red LED penlight out into the forest on a dark moonless night.
Fiction, or even better, a play or a movie can engage a person more completely, and can elucidate complex concepts in multiple dimensions of understanding--evoking emotions for example. Fiction is also significantly better at evading dogmatic authorities than a dry recitation of how reality works.
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