The concept of the ‘dominant narrative’ as used here can be seen as equivalent to Jacques Lacan’s ‘the master’s discourse’, which is discussed in the responses to these stories. The ‘dominant narrative’ examined here is simply each of the dominant set of beliefs or tenets laid down to implement and maintain the current ideological/moral order. As the author of Notes From Another Country, Winston, points out so well in his explanation of Lacan’s ‘the master’s discourse’, both it and our ‘dominant narrative’ version are meant to be obeyed, to be revered, to be idealised. They must not be questioned or exposed as lying or indulging in crude, self-promoting propaganda. All that is ‘bad’ is outside, all that is ‘good’ is in here, in the dominant narrative, which is usually supported by the state and its laws. What should shock us all is how today’s individual dominant narratives have captured so many with their insidious propaganda.
A series of individual dominant narratives is now examined. The title of each is:
