> experiences with some sort of "narrative" that becomes more synthetic the more it becomes generalized and massaged?
We clearly have different thoughts on the matter, so I won't delve deeply here.
But I would say the message becoming more generalised isn't what I've seen. Though, the tribes I was immersed with had deep story-telling practices, such as weaving and repeated communal retellings. Resulting in near word-for-word retellings some hundreds of years apart. The moral isn't explained or given. Its just history.
We clearly have different thoughts on the matter, so I won't delve deeply here.
But I would say the message becoming more generalised isn't what I've seen. Though, the tribes I was immersed with had deep story-telling practices, such as weaving and repeated communal retellings. Resulting in near word-for-word retellings some hundreds of years apart. The moral isn't explained or given. Its just history.