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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my hunch is that the major problem facing the American project is (i) the dissolution of load-bearing myths, and (ii) the failure of successor myths to meet the needs satisfied by the oldpic.twitter.com/wJgytpEWXF
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outstanding questions (a) why did old myths fail? hypotheses: i. they could no longer function in new social circumstances (tech, postindustrialization, globalization) ii. they no longer suited a population with, eg, changing demographics iii. they were murdered iv. ?
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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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