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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Yes yes yes
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No gods but New Gods
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Four tweets in to get to Kirby is why I follow you on here. Fwiw, if you get up to speed on the rest, I would love to read a deeper dive on all this.
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Kirby moves increasingly away from traditional myth and towards ancient astronauts, no? Like, Thor is close to straight up traditional myth, New Gods is disconnected from real world myth entirely, and Eternals is straight up ancient astronauts.
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Though I forget the extent to which the ancient Astronaut stuff was already there in the original version of the Inhumans. The Kree weren't invented until after the Inhumans, and I don't remember their original origin story. When did they get linked in with the Kree?
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Re myths & reactionary politics. George Orwell on W. B. Yeats, the far-right, and occultism seems related https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/part20.html … 1943pic.twitter.com/Jh7c3mhI06
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So glad you brought up fascism in this context. I've been haunted by Eco's text since Trump was elected and it seems to relate to many current issues beyond Trump. Can you do a thread on "Ur-Fascism" too? http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/ …pic.twitter.com/QAeygdcqpd
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As much as I enjoy the ancient astronauts thing it boils down to mostly white Westerners making up nonsense theories to prove that mostly non-white ancients "didn't build that"...
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