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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And saying that nothing has actually changed and a tradition is still a tradition if you buy it at the store is just false It's the definition of presentism - it's openly trying to change the definitions of words to say something hasn't changed that obviously has changed
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"Mythology" is something that happens *because* of the lack of a mass media, of a universal commercial marketplace for fiction It exists *because* of a world where most stories you heard from your parents they heard from their parents and no one knows who came up with it first
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yeah but that definition fall to much into the "american exceptionalism", framing their own societal dinamics as something revolucionary never ever seen in the world.
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