Tyler Cowen：Be suspicious of simple stories

Tyler Cowen·TEDxMidAtlantic
Be suspicious of simple stories
Summary
I am very sorry that the speaker stood on the TED stage only one time.
It's because I really love such stories that are written about human behavior and the behavioral economy sharply and funnily.

We are taught that we have to believe teachers, parents, great people, and stories that they say, though, the title says that be suspicious but it's especially simple stories that are, I think, understandable easily and after all, people can't remember difficult, complex, and messy stories or don't want to remember them.

However, simplicity means that the point of a narrative is stripped away and is written about good versus evil. 1)
We believe and depend too much on simple stories but it's very hard to get away with those. 2)
And then, with stories, outsiders manipulate us. 3)

The speaker's message is that we try to be suspicious of simple stories more because our lives are messier and it'll be okay to be more comfortable with messy, though, we must not be self-deceptive but we are not that we are fundamentally reasonable.