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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@Meaningness And, as L'Engle asked, "Do we want the children to see it?" https://books.google.com/books?id=0r_jeaAvX9YC&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq= …"Do+we+want+the+children+to+see+it?"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@CircleReader I guess I disagree with that, despite loving her fiction (adult as well as children’s) and respecting her view2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes -
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@Meaningness She's saying that the story has to be true enough - high quality enough - to share w/ children. (Opposite of standard approach)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@CircleReader mmm… Most children’s stories are bad, though.
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