A theme park (http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/08/06/frontierland/ …) is a myth made flesh, or at least a myth made mortar. A wonderful thing!
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The pernicious Protestant/Enlightenment "sincerity orientation" (https://meaningness.wordpress.com/2015/04/04/ritual-vs-mentalism/ …) bans myth. This has been a cultural disaster.
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Childhood was a loophole in the ban on myth. Children are allowed fairy stories, but must grow out of them.
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Postmodernity has weakened enforced sincerity, and myth-like genres relegated to childhood in modernity now dominate adult narrative.
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Superhero, fantasy, and scifi films are a resurrgence of myth. Explicit acknowledgement might enable more serious, more adult mythology.
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Allowing adult mythology could open the door to adult ritual and adult theme parks. But what myths do we wish to enact?
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Adult mythology is now allowed, but only as “entertainment,” which deliberately encapsulates and emasculates it.
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Joseph Campbell and Jungians advocated adult mythology, but Romanticism was their only resource against Protestant/Enlightenment sincerity
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Romanticism has its own “self-expression” sincerity theme, which is also pernicious, so Jungian myth mostly leads nowhere good
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I’d like to believe that a sufficiently deep understanding of the Romanticism-vs-Enlightenment dual could lead to something better than both
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I will stop blathering now. You can see why it’s a good thing I don’t have a blog.
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@Meaningness@DarkandWondrous Complexity theory imo! http://www.synthesisips.net/blog/what-to-make-of-the-complexity-paradigm/ …0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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