Outer Narrative Tailoring: the process whereby Outer Narratives
are created or adapted to attract new adoptees of the Inner Narrative.
This is done when the Narrativist group feels they are under threat by
the source of the Narrative dysphoria, as it generally requires the
perceived threat of annihilation to bring a Narrativist to the point of
seeking new sources of support.
Outer Narrative tailoring is also a large factor in the phenomenon of
Narrative Convergence. Through the process of experimenting with new
Outer Narratives, successful ones, those with wide enough appeal to
attract new supporters, are naturally discovered. But because of the
nature of Narrativist thinking, Narrative Tailoring usually only results
in attracting support from other Narrativists. The structure of Outer
Narratives generally only appeals to Narrativists or people with a
shallow understanding of the topic at hand.
Because of this, a feedback mechanism results: ONs that appeal to the
most other Narrativists become adopted as the mantra of the Narrativist
group(s) trying to attract new support. The Outer Narratives that
attract the most support will naturally be the ones mostly closely
adhering to the conceptual framework of the Grand Narrative. This
results in various Outer Narratives from different groups of
Narrativists "converging" around themes and ideas that are centrally
agreeable.
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