Krimel, what does it mean to say "the sound of the world IS the mythos"? The
sound of the world is a mixture of ringing phones, pleading ads, rushing
traffic, multi-tasking busyness and talk radio blowhards. That does not
constitute a myth. It's just noise. I was thinking (along with Emerson,
Campbell, Jung, Dewey, Heidegger, Pirsig and others) that the technological
world cuts us off from nature and that nature is the source of myth and its
symbolism. And if myth is collective then what sense does it make to claim that
we only have to read the symbols from someone else's? To the extent that we
have our own myth, it is only a particular subset of something the whole
species shares. I mean, it seems pretty clear to me that you don't understand
the problem. Why is the psyche symbolized by a butterfly? A snake? Why does the
quaternity show up all over the world and what does that symbolize? Why is the
kingdom of heaven like a mustard seed? Maybe this is all quite clear to you but
most people contemporary people are baffled by these symbols despite their
centrality in myth.
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