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. Its a worldview in which there is no meaning and reality itself is indifferent to human purposes and values, if not hostile. And yet the old myths are not an option and are oppressive, even totalitarian by today's standards. On the flip-side, there was also a nice cozy feeling back in the day, I suppose. And this new freedom is scary to a lot of people. The quest to rescue some kind of anchor has given us fundamentalism and fascism and other crazy reactions. [Krimel] Who says that today's myths any more alienating than myths of the past? Do you find the gods and goddess meddling in the Trojan wars endearing? Do Kali and Shiva sound like people you want for neighbors?
Murphey's Law, the Butterfly Effect, the freedom of the open road, Gary Cooper at High Noon or Christian Bale at 3:10, The Matrix, the Little Black Book and Homer Simpson are all myths that unite us and help us understand our place in society. It is not the mythology or the lack of it that causes alienation today rather it is pure Dynamic Quality. Things change so fast that static latching doesn't hold long enough for people to catch their breath. Mythology in these times is racing to keep up and we are churning out new myths and variations on old myths faster than ever. What made life cozy back in the day was its Static quality. Little changed from one generation to the next and even if life was hard people knew what to expect from it. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
