How did we, as educators, allow such a simplistic narrative to go unchallenged by good history and civics taught at school and university?
One conversation has centered on a rather simplistic narrative of Trump as an enemy of Silicon Valley; this goes along with a self-flagellating regret that the technology industry didn't do enough to get Hillary Clinton into the White House.
So they have manufactured a convenient, simplistic narrative of villains and victims, where right-wing extremists and special interests are conspiring to stop progress through a cynical fear-mongering misinformation campaign.
It's part of a simplistic narrative formula that gives the player their character's motivation – usually some paternal impetus to protect.
The incident was to prompt a global outcry and weeks of protests in India, and to reveal problems often ignored by those overseas who are perhaps too eager to embrace a heartwarming but simplistic narrative of growing prosperity in the world's biggest democracy.
The fact that this tale of sadomasochism among genteel folk has been reissued at all suggests a dissatisfaction with the simplistic narrative of liberation that has dominated women's literature practically since the date of this novel's original publication.
Unfortunately, contemporary intellectual history has been less kind, preferring a more convenient and simplistic narrative of the liberal canon that excludes him.
"What I object to is Cage's simplistic narrative of an innocent man radicalised by the British state.
By framing the debate in an over-simplistic narrative of left vs right, Grayling is trying to distract us from the real purpose of judicial review: it is about ensuring public bodies and the Government are subject to, rather than, above the law.
