In the book /Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes?/ (Did the Greeks
believe in their myths?), Paul Veyne questions the meaning of “belief.”
His conclusion is that the force of mythology does not consist in
believing a metaphor literally, in forgetting about the brackets before
and after the metaphoric enunciation. Mythological belief (like memetic
contagion) today similarly enables a sort of pragmatic coherence in the
life of “believers.” It gives sense to the world of those who heed such
mythology, amidst a world that has lost any sense.
For example, believing Trump’s assertion “I won the election” is not a
semiological mistake. Rather, it is a strategy for identitarian
self-assertion. When liberals speak of “fake news,” they totally miss
the point, because those who share a mythology (or a meme) are not
searching for the factual truth, like a social scientist might. Instead,
they are consciously or unconsciously using the force of the fake
enunciation as an exorcism, as an insult, as a weapon.
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/371876/bifo-on-the-us-capitol-riots/
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