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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A unified and purposeful zeitgeist apparatus enabled solely by emergent technology...didnt exist back then? But Ive been loving these "Popsicles versus X" radio dramas...
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Okay, ya caught me, Im writing radio dramas and calling them podcasts.
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When using language to try and describe something we are always going to be off the mark. Presentism the way you seem to be describing it basically destroys the modern human ability to understand something from the past or even another culture.
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Saying something "is like" isn't the same thing as saying "it is exactly this." Same as with your comparison of wage Slavery and chattel slavery being different but still part of the system of oppression. It's not about diminishing but communicating, the alternative is...
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Isn't that type of stuff called "folklore"?
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We're using the words loosey-goosey by calling superhero comics "mythology" in the first place Like if Hercules is technically "heroic legend" and not "myth" because his stories don't really take place in an abstract dream-time then obviously the same is true of Superman
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