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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2018

      There's a strong affinity between myth scholars & reactionary politics: Jung, Eliade, Campbell, Guenon, Peterson. Northrop Frye, who was a moderate social democrat, is the great exception here.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2018

      So: in 20th century, reactionaries often used comparative mythology as substitute for (now discredited) natural theology: a rational for believing social order reflected some timeless, transhistorical truth.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2018

          Jeet Heer Retweeted Wagner Felix

          There were, of course, exceptions to this, particularly scholars who moved further away from traditional canon of western myth:https://twitter.com/wdcfelix/status/997632941294579712 …

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          Wagner Felix @wdcfelix
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          You can probably count the late Schelling and Dumézil among them, but the true exception would be the anthropologists that looked beyond Europe and saw the depth of Amazonian cosmologies, for example.
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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2018

          If were really up to speed I'd do a thread on Carl Jung, comparative mythology, Jordan Peterson, fascism, the Indiana Jones movies, ancient astronauts & Jack Kirby's theological-science-fiction cycle (Thor-New Gods-Eternals-Captain Victory). But I need to read more.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 18 May 2018

          Jack Kirby's fascination with the ancient astronaut theme (running from 1950s till end of life) was linked to his anti-fascism: it was reclaiming mythology from the reactionaries by showing it was not timeless truth but living & transformative storytelling.

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        1. yolo contendere‏ @HongPong 18 May 2018
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          Don't forget Leo Strauss. He was all about training how to weaponize myths

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        1. constans‏ @constans 18 May 2018
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          Why would you call natural theology "discredited" ?

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        1. Brandon Jonely  🌹‏ @Aldowyn 18 May 2018
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          Clear influence from Tolkien's politics in his writings, both on myth and the myths themselves. Not reactionary, maybe, but definitely conservative, even beyond the obvious

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        1. constans‏ @constans 18 May 2018
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          There's also the idea that Enlightenment philosophers and the primacy of Reason upended these hierarchies, and so we have to go back to earlier, more "authentic" myths to return us to our "true" state.

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        1. Mdluli Bonwayinkosi‏ @kingbonwa10 19 May 2018
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          #eff #anc

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