Here's a major hypothesis: There can be only one grand narrative in a society at any given time, and it can only supply psyche energy to 50% of the people it is about. The other 50% have to find dark energy to live off of because they're socially dead. A no-free-lunch theorem.
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I think that's more complex. It's not a grand narrative so much as the shadow of one.

