We do seem wired to love and crave stories. But can we ever have an independent personal story that is not significantly shaped by the dominant collective narrative/reality? And might the people scripting that controlling narrative know exactly what they are doing and how to do it?

Personally, I don’t believe those who craft and deliver the controlling narrative have unexamined lives—they have examined their lives and they’ve made a conscious choice to manipulate and control and deceive us away from truth and into a reality tunnel that increases their own power and wealth (usually at the expense of everyone else who is not in The Big Club). They do that willfully and without empathy.

But—maybe—that’s just my personal narrative. Still, until I get evidence to the contrary, I’m sticking to it.