speaking of (and on an adjacent note), you guys know Art of the Title (evocative, memorable, and full of info scent too) right?? ...my all-time favorite here, is def Mad Men! http://www.artofthetitle.com/
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You mean that every generation can add to a story - but every generation *reinterprets* myth as it is? This would make Hamlet a myth.
Something like that. I think the idea is sufficiently interesting & generative that I don't _want_ to reduce it to a tweet, or a single essay. But, yes, to a large extent our culture has been made by Hamlet (or by the Bible, or Star Wars, etc).
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One of my favourite ways of seeing tLoTR movies actually - both Tolkien and Jackson were telling stories based on the same underlying myth :-). Not true, of course, but I like the idea!
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What I like re your picking the Balrog part is that I think that's the deepest, core (pun) part of the whole thing. Ofc Tolkien uses archetypes etc etc but all other parts can be in a way interpreted as "cultural" a bit. Not that part -- that's just *human*.
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Isn't this more a competition/distribution question tbh? Or how P Thiel would like us to think about Google or something
Be the last search company...
Be the last canonical version of Hamlet.
The last version of what Christ was.
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I suppose if you're thinking of it as trying to win a competition between startups. But I'm quite happy to think of it otherwise. If myths have cultures, and that comes (in part) out of the act of subcreation, then who "wins" is really beside the point.
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