@xarvh @freakazoid I don't personally believe that a "great community" story is *fundamentally* harder or more complicated to understand.

I do think that it is harder to understand in this very moment and context, where people have not become accustomed to such narratives due to the prominence of individualist narratives.

Ultimately we understand most things in the context of those things that we are already familiar with, and so I think that "which story is the easiest to understand" mostly boils down to "which story do people see the most" in the end.

This is actually also why I think that we need more representation of communal efforts and structures in various media. It helps people become familiar with the mechanics of such a society, and makes it easier to understand them as applied to the real world.