canon-orientation is about cataloging the facts of a universe, ranking them in terms of precedence, establishing a repository of truth that reflects the best understanding at that point in time
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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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I tend to think that there likely are underlying realities, but that there can never be a fully reliable signal when we access or approach them & so we must continue to find competing perspectives, interpret and reinterpret. Also, writers should trust readers to collaborate, yes.
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