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 I think blog length would be good for your ideas. Book can feel unwieldy, Tweets lack sufficient exploration & context1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@bswud and actually everything I’ve managed to write is just background, one inferential step from audience, to educate toward actual points1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@bswud danger is that I’ll die before I ever get to the actual points, so possibly just blurting them out is the right approach;
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