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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Replying to @arthur_affect
Our view of mythology often ignores that it was propaganda from Gilgamesh to Oracle visits to the foundation of Rome by escaped Trojans. Wouldn't modern mythology be the same?
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Replying to @Lithobolos
I just don't think that a commercial product that everyone who makes and consumes it understands is pure fiction designed to entertain the viewer as a customer is the same thing as "mythology"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Lithobolos
Yes, it does a lot of the things mythology does, it is in many ways analogous to mythology or "what we have instead of mythology" Fine When you say it actually is mythology you're ignoring a lot of obvious facts as though they just don't matter and that's annoying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Lithobolos
It's like when people say stuff like "Football is my religion" and in some broad anthropological sense that's true and insightful and yet if you actually literally mean it and try to push it as literally true it's just stupid No it's not
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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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