The enduring allure of grand narratives in the digital age:
Throughout history, grand narratives—metanarratives arising from a society’s collective anxieties and aspirations, influencing its social, cultural, and political agency—have served as powerful instruments of political and ideological control. They have steered the course of history, defining the self-identity and agency of societies. The Greco-Persian Wars (499–449 BC) engendered an enduring civilisational divide rooted in assertions of superiority, shaping over two and a half millennia of the east-west dynamics, including almost five centuries of colonial politics.

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