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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I mean, sure, George Washington chopping down the cherry tree has much less cultural relevance than Spider-Man (although not ZERO relevance, looking at the success of stuff like Hamilton)
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But that's not comic books being the new mythology, that's commercial fiction being more important nowadays than mythology Mythology, qua mythology, is much less of a thing in modern society I think the distinction does matter
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