Read "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter and free yourself from this nonsense.
"selling narratives" I could have delivered the same crock-o-shit rant in the 50's just when consumer marketing was getting huge.
We've been sold the narrative of a "white picket fence" and what a surprise, you can buy it all in the Sears catalog.
Looking back, this is the main reason I stopped going on sites like 4chan. People just take a braindump on the site, then because there's no personal context you can easily see it as some kind of insight. You just end up believing the things you want to believe anyway. The whole place is just a funhouse mirror, where you can interact with a version of yourself that has never felt the touch of another human.