1. So I have some thoughts on Jordan Peterson, vintage clothing, George Eliot, Carl Jung, comparative mythology, fascism, the Indiana Jones movies, ancient astronauts & Jack Kirby's New Gods.
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9. Myths aren't static & univocal (as Paterson treats them) but, like all cultural artifacts, contested, fluid & polyphonic. Frye showed this on a theoretical level, Jack Kirby through his art.
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10. Running through Kirby's work is a fascination with myths, not seen as simply inherited things but open to renovation: mythology fusing with science fiction in stories of Ancient Astronauts (taken as much from pulps as von Danikens pseudo-science)pic.twitter.com/hWpZXL2t6l
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11. It's the fusion of science fiction with mythology that saves Kirby from the musty, status-quo loving traditionalism of the older mythologists: the New God embody older archetypes but also, crucially, contemporary uncertainty & anxiety.
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12. I have more thoughts along this line here:https://newrepublic.com/article/148473/jordan-petersons-tired-old-myths …
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you sound really deep
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Cf, Joseph Campbell
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What is a myth's "own oeuvre" according to you?
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Rewriting the devil as hero didn't create a myth. It took two existing archetypes, superimposed one over another and just obfuscated both. Myth is something that is reproduced & refined within culture across generations, not one man's art.
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