Or, once, I suppose, to escape (“light out to the territories”) but the escape to the West has been more or less deconstructed into non-functionality, thank god, because it was a very very very wretched myth.
The ethical/aesthetic defense of bourgeois-dominated society is the myth of romantic love and the myth of the nuclear family. The only aesthetically valid things to do under capitalism are to fall in love or to raise a child.
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Although, in a perverse way, it is the most revolutionary of the set. But it is a permanently individualized revolution: “In New York you can be a new man,” which I suppose drains it of revolutionary potential.
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But you know, could have been useful for a “your own gods say that...” sort of thing.
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