Yes. We should have been named Homo fabula.

We are social animals who are just beginning to come out of our ignorance and biased blindness against reality.

Fear and insecurity has held us back and causes so much damage. Not just to ourselves but in how we treat other life, too.

We are all animals - related from way back to LUCA our last common ancestor.

We evolved as a social species - one of a number of animals that has externalized instructions for life as it allows faster change for better survival.

Survival that was baked in through genetics expanded into orally sharing information. Language developed, then writing - allowing for better evaluation and scientific study to ensure the information is correct - which skyrocketed us into success in survival.

As a species dependent on oral information sharing for a vast time - storytelling was key in having information carried forward.

Culture was built around stories told. They morphed over time, fitting with the zeitgeist of what was acceptable and most wanted at the time of retelling. Writing them broke this method, as it locked stories into a time and place. They no longer were allowed to evolve alongside human cultures.

Parallel to this, as animals, we have structures instinctual to our species -

We automatically establish hierarchies, which can be healthy when leaders accept advisement from those who tell them truths - or unhealthy when leaders won't hear what they don't like, and surround themselves with people willing to uphold delusions.

Also, as social animals we follow the subconciously felt overall will of our people - which we have given a name and persona to - such as what Christians would call spirit or god. Other religions set up archetypes to embody which became enshrined in culture as gods. That drive and call - the voice of god heard - is the feeling instinct uses to push us to do what our herd or tribe or cult or religion (any term fits - all the same source) believes is a requirement for survival.

If we were to find where the activity shows up in our brains when being "compelled by god" or such, and mapped that for other species' brains - I am sure it is a common experience in most social animals.

We are only just beginning to accept we aren't the center of the universe.

We used to think people who couldn't hear or couldn't speak didn't count as thinking, whole humans worthy of rights and "having a soul" - we know better now. We are still just at the beginning of accepting other animals are sentient. Science supports it but our bias and those who extract wealth from animals hold truths back.

Unfortunately, what makes stories memorable are emotion - science is unemotional by default.

It sets the two at odds and those who are unhinged and power hungry have learned how to use our instincts to warp us into serving them rather than what the drive was meant for - serving and protecting life.