There is a reason you can’t put a good book down. As humans we have a natural affinity for storytelling. This expresses itself on a granular level; the very way we organise knowledge in our minds is as narrative, and our personal egos mean we are always telling our own story. The same is true on a collective scale, history is the story we tell ourselves to feel more significant – our cultural mythologies satisfy our appetite for greater meaning. The white saviour narrative which permeates supposedly factual history books throughout the West is a great example of this, as are the patriarchal na…