Story niches in the socio-ecosystem

• What is the role of different stories/cultural myths & morals?
• What stories work for you, how & why?
  
• <!--[if !supportLists]--> How does variety and/or unity of story impact us?

Why I posted this topic:
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I’ve got my own spiritual practice that works for me, with its own 'night-language' (myth-language) and story, metaphors which interconnect me and the rest of us with the natural world very directly as brothers and sisters in creation. I don’t feel a need for humans to hold the kind of special role described by the Great Story -- and I get grumpy when I feel like we are ignoring the value of non-human consciousness. I am finding, however, that the evolutionary perspective allows for greater leaps of the imagination about where we can go and what right action is – and think it has great potential.

I also acknowledge the power of the universe story for many people in providing them a framework that explains their role as a human.  I also see how encompassing that story is.  However, I think there are story niches – there needs to be a variety of cultures, stories, languages, species, in different places – it is that diversity that facilitates our evolution and robustness.  So I wonder how the ‘great story’ can be a means of understanding this, without becoming an invasive species that wipes out the other ones – but rather is a way of framing that acknowledges the value of other stories in the socio-ecosystem?