I think there is more to it. We need an appreciation of the need for myth and narrative at the same time as a need for distinguishing it from objective truth and a recognition that scholarship should generally aim at the latter or if exploring the former, be explicit abt this https://twitter.com/Rongwrong_/status/946460593648750593 …
Have you? Where? I heard about it in metamodernism but this is quite new and also weird. We see it in Jordan Peterson's popularity and Matthew d'Ancona's new book urges an appreciation of this. There's a long history of relating secular ideologies to religious ideologies, obv.
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I mean I've been hearing "SJWs are religious fanatics, you can't reason with them with facts and logic." Translate to: "Social justice acts as myth, so technological responses are bound to fail." (Which is an overstatement, by the way. Technological attacks can demolish myths.)
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But that wasn't to your point, was it? Sorry. Yes, "we need myths" is a cliche too. But anyway Jacobs wasn't going into that so much. He seemed more interested in crosstalk between the technological and the mythic.
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