folklore mindset: evaluating cultural items that are “told for true” in literary and cultural terms, independent of their truth value
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Is “folklore mindset” nihilist if you believe that stories are valuable, but are still trying to figure out what stories are for?
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Does consciousness show it's purpose in story making to give behavior a 'makes sense' quality? (Internally as well.) Opposite of that being schitzophrenia?
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story-making as how you make yourself legible to others and interpret their behavior?
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You've got nihilism exactly backwards, only that what you value but don't understand has meaning.
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No, unless you consider all anthropological study somehow nihilist.
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