call these two styles canon-oriented and fandom-oriented
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but at the same time the world only really seems legible through the prism of narrative, there is of course an underlying "reality" but it isn't directly accessible
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and the fact that most people take their narratives to be reality means while reality-as-competing-narratives may not help describe reality it does help describe people
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and while you cannot control reality directly through narrative, you can control it through people by the instrument of narrative. what reality actually is maybe is academic
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anyway the competing political narratives that purport to describe the reality of current events can probably be better thought of as fandoms that believe they're canons
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