practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any narrative influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct storyteller
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(b) why are successor myths inadequate? hypotheses: i. there's no consensus myth --> strife, struggle for dominance ii. new pantheon(s) need time to expand, become broad enough to fill meaning needs completely iii. they're just not very good stories iv. ?
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these are not easily testable hypotheses rather potential metastories
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yeah--I'm being a little sloppy with semantics, I think your framing is better do you have a good sense of how we've grappled with past demographic waves? I have the impression it was more graceful but maybe that's just another myth :)
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iv. The old myths were not faithfully passed on ?
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Yeah also valid kind of thinking abt whether to lump that in with "murdered"
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