I think there was a time when "Comic book superheroes are modern mythology" was a good and useful corrective to a certain kind of kneejerk snobbery toward the subject and I think that time ended well before MCU Phase II, much less Phase III
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"American civil religion" is definitely a thing, even among some people who are militantly "anti-religious"
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Okay see yes and I would say that as hokey as you might find it there is actual literal "American mythology" that goes with the American civic religion that actually fits the definition of mythology much better than any fiction created for commercial media
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Or like "working for minimum wage is just slavery, wage slavery and chattel slavery are the same, nothing's changed" On one level, this is a valid piece of rhetoric expressing anger and frustration On another level, it is just wrong and actually offensively wrong
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