[alexashka]

I think this could be applied to all spheres of human knowledge.

We have books written in languages we don't understand. There has to be shared context beneath all forms of communication and communication itself can be seen as CRUD operations of the layered cake of shared contexts/stories/narratives/ideas that have dependencies between them.

Study of CRUD operations and interactions between the layers and what the various types are and what common dependencies occur and when would be a very fruitful field of psychology, if not perhaps some AI modelling - I don't know if there already is a psychological model along these lines.

For example when you haven't seen a friend for a long time and you reconnect, if your life experiences haven't updated or deleted large parts of your shared context, you'll fall right back into the groove.

It does make me wonder if there needs to be an update of the shared context country or even world-wide to make people feel a sense of community again. We've done away with religion and the many community bonding experiences that it offered. We've tried the 'get rich or die tryin' context and I don't think it has been fulfilling for the majority of the beta testers :)

Time to try something else, perhaps with a little more thought and rigor put into it?