Stories of a collective plot play second fiddle to individual plot (self-actualise yourself, but you are self-actualising yourself in a nightmare). Actually, there isn't even a collective plot anymore. Fundamentalists want to hide in their stupid past-world. Transhumanists want to hide in a computer. Here I think post-modern multiculturalism is in fact a view that itself produces fundamentalism because it gives us no direction - then people just stupidly cling to a non-existent past or a non-existent future.stories where plot plays second fiddle to individual growth.
Interested point. It's interesting to think of liberal multiculturalism as a monoculture that suppresses push influences upon society, but tolerates pull influences. By that avenue, capitalism wins, unions lose. Success is 'giving the people what they want'. It is fashionable to obsess about the means, but not about the ends. We have a cultural litmus test for the means, not the ends.