What's Going on in the West?

In the universities and in broader society right now is a debate between two fundamental, low resolution narratives. The question is, what story should be paramount? And this is how it looks to me. In the west, we have reasonably functional, reasonably free, remarkably productive, stable hierarchies that are open to consideration of the dispossessed. Our societies are freer and functioning more effectively than any societies anywhere else in the world,. tat any societies ever have. We essentially need something approximating a low resolution, grand narrative to unite us - otherwise we don't have peace.