Chapter I offers the concept of some very large stories -- or narratives, or social myths, or deep stories -- without which people living together cannot understand where they have come from, where they are now, and how they should go forward. In other words, people cannot live without large stories, which this chapter describes as Stories with a capital S. This point is buttressed by reference to writings and ideas of Neil Postman, Hannah Arendt, Yuval Noah Harari, Kwame Appiah, and other thinkers. The problem is that all of those necessary Stories are not entirely true -- are instead false. Later chapter explore the implications of this reality.