comic book superheroes are modern mythology, but unfortunately modern mythology is also owned and operated by capitalist hypermonopolies the colonization of the imagination quite literal
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I think if you broaden the definition of "mythology" to the maximum possible extent this is true But I think it's more meaningful to say "mythology in our culture has been replaced with commercial fiction" It gets the point across more clearly
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Like, it's a different thing with which you have a different relationship I really think it's important to stress that the process by which commercial fiction gets made and the process by which it gets consumed is very different from what is traditionally called mythology
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We are a post-traditional culture "Pop culture" is NOT a traditional culture, the distinctive features it has that make it "pop" culture are ABOUT how it's not traditional
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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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Like, no, Hercules' legends being different when you went from city to city - like the name of Pecos Bill's horse changing depending on how far north or south you were - is NOT like Marvel vs DC or canon Harry Potter vs queer fanfic It's almost exactly the opposite
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"Well, in Athens it wasn't Hercules who bound Cerberus, it was Theseus" is not a matter of the studio releasing an Athens edit of the tentpole feature to appeal to them with the hometown hero It's the exact opposite
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Athenians just said "Well that's our version of the story and it's always been our version of the story" No one clearly identifiable made the decision to change the story, it's just what happened
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If they lived in a society that had mass commercial media and someone owned the Hercules IP and whatnot, this couldn't really happen the same way That is a difference between our world and their world, a fundamental difference between how we think and how they thought
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There are stories that work this way still and I think it's significant that we generally find those stories to be old fashioned and hokey - that's how genuine mythology feels in a commercial world "Grandma's stories about her hometown"
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You are know just interchangable meaning mythology and folklore.
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