In the post-modern world, being on stage, starring in one's own story becomes its own reward. New ideas for treating people include creating a new story of a person's life, a story which fits the facts but puts a different spin on the events. New SCRs are used as explicit tools in therapy. We live in a culture where you can choose your beliefs, in a culture where people can shop for a church. It's easier for cults to thrive in post-modern society, because of greater media exposure, greater tolerance, and the need for some people to decrease the amount of choices in their lives by letting a leader or guru define reality.
Global stories are attempts to create a global culture.
For example, some people are trying to create a new world story, an emergent fiction of a world based on human rights, or a global society dedicated to the needs of the environment. The global theater is changing our beliefs about traditions and our relationship to traditions, but has not replaced these with a new set of global beliefs or beliefs about beliefs. For those leery of these possibilities, Anderson argues that belief systems are stronger than we realize. They will last in some form without recourse to absolutes. In fact, the realization that morals are socially created may spur increased discourse on the nature of morality and result in greater emphasis on moral beliefs rather than the abandonment of morality.