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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Not necessarily a contradiction there. Grand narratives recursively contain smaller subcultural ones all the way down to individual. But there most certainly are levels of narrative consensus above individual. It is belief in only the individual layer that's platonic.
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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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People who share algebra share more richly than people who share only narrative.
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