> But why should there be an overarching story? I think that I can answer your question. Bear with me. I think the reason stems from the same place why Jesus s

> But why should there be an overarching story? I think that I can answer your question. Bear with me. I think the reason stems from the same place why Jesus shared his worldview through parables (for instance), and why Orwell and Huxley outsell Nietzsche and Bentham. I think that narrative is a very effective way to get a point across, and it also may be how we (as cognitive beings) are fundamentally wired. Did you ever stop to think that your life which appears to have a coherent narrative thread only appears so because you internally and involuntarily constantly construct and reconstruct this narrative thread overlaid on the messy indigestible complex fragments of your existence. Like the persistence of vision allows the discrete frames blend into continuity. The pattern is us.