So, humanity grew up with the kinship hierarchy of family, clan, tribe, nation, humanity.  Civilization introduced new meritocratic hierarchies and the concept of putting the larger ahead of the smaller.  This is what sacrifice is about.  But bad actors can hijack that readiness to sacrifice for a higher cause.  That's what's wrong with specific metanarratives that have failed.  

So, we've had some learning experiences.  Guess that means it's time to stop trying and pack up and go home.  No way to design things to prevent bad actors from meaconing our command instructions.  The old versions didn't have that so it's impossible.  Sigh.