hey dave,
>
> Gav said:
> ..we have lost touch with our myths and this is the
> root cause of alienation. but it is also a catalyst
> for a new phase in myth creation. ..the mythopoetic
> interpretation *of our own lives* is this new phase
> and this is what joseph campbell talks about in his
> final 'masks of god' volume - 'creative mythology'.
> ..alienation leaves us alone, lost, confused. we are
> unanchored. the rules we are given to live by ring
> hollow. they do not originate from the mythos;
> rather they are the product of a steroidally
> inflated and consequently paranoid logos.
>
> dmb says:
> Right, to the extent that we have a living,
> functioning mythology at all, it is the church of
> reason, scientific materialism and SOM. In a sense,
> the problem is not that we are alienated because we
> have no myths to live by so much as the myths we
> live by are inherently alienating.
gav, again:
yes, that's right. cheers dave. cannae live without
myth, even when you think you are....
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