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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@okayultra yes, I think that’s right! Recognizing myth as legitimate is rare, though1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@okayultra sometimes it’s valuable to take implausible myths seriously
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