"Power of stories" may be inadequate

The "power of stories" may be inadequate to deal with problems or injustices of global scale, such as a pandemic, or the coming global heating disaster.

*… some of the most urgent and lethal challenges our society is facing are too giant and unwieldy to fit into the little patterns our human minds are used to making. Our present pandemic response policies suggest some people don't get to be "heroes" on a "journey", and many traditional western storytelling conventions aren't up to the task of understanding a climate emergency that defies any sort of conflict-resolution arc.*