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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Two people share some narrative consensus if they recognize each other as human, and not if one or both derecognizes the other, contributing to their social death within the home narrative. The rest is just graph theory.
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It makes more sense to me, if you put your proposition on its head: The “sources” of the “socially dead” you list are classic narratives par excellence. The other half is the one that struggles with scriptlessness, inauthenticity and aimlessness.
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