One Grand Story.(comments would be nice,not necesarrily for this one either)long title

(this will soon be edited)Well lets start off this blog with a great big, i have no clue what to write about. So with that said i am going to "wing-it." Hopefully the ideas will flow through my fingers or bullshit will flow through them making something terrible difficult to read. Well, while we were all indulging in the Postmodernism for Beginners book I was applying Lyotards(from here on known as L, no you crazy Bleach fans not that L). Well applying L's ideas to our current day. I was noticing that many countries still use this Metanarrative aspect to steer their people into the desired direction. First example that comes to mind, would be President Obama and his health care reform. He is desperately, it seems, trying to steer the people into the direction of reform; while the counter-party trys to drastically do the opposite scare the hell out of people associating the word reform to socialism. This all is leading to the grand narrative of this american story here, well all of this would be steering the american people towards being "better off". (kinda lost track here.)On page 29 L defines metanarratives as "big stories, stories of mythic porportions." With this I will rant until the cows come home. What exactly is our metanarrative now? The overall metanarrative of America? the world? It seems to me that world wide the Metanarrative would be to become "successful", in American depending on the person it would be to have the white picket fence, two cars in garage, a wife and kids all in a suburban setting. But who creates these metanarratives? i would say the media, the past and many other things. This "success" meta narrative would sum up all of the desires and needs aroung this one thing(picket fence etc). These grand narratives are also used as propaganda in some senses, such as the Prop 8 grand narrative; Gays will take over california and eat your children, ok maybe not eat your children but turn them gay. Meta Narrative are used to define or give meaning to our lives. Some use meta narratives to guide their lives and their own morals, religion a large meta narrative a very versatile narrative that exists in some form or another in every country. In brave new world this metanarrative is somewhat smudged over, it seems to be apparent in a direction of "efficiancy" but there is no universal direction or point to why they are doing any of this. The reason of their life is just to fulfill their enacted roll, if one dies there is no problem he/she can be easily replaced.