Totally agree with you about a need for heroism (the opposite of subjugation/submission). The ongoing story/serial I'm writing on my Substack is essentially exactly about that - in my case though it's a heroine, rather than a hero, lol.
Like Eurydike - the alternative version in which it's actually Eurydike who rescues Orpheus from the Underworld, although partly because he - as equally a hero - has the courage to not just venture into that Underworld but also to venture into the deep heart of the female itself (which can also be seen as the Underworld/unconscious - yeah, I'm an unapologetic Jungian).
Just as Charon helps the souls of the newly deceased into the Underworld, at the other side, Eurydike helps them out again into whichever new incarnation they have decided to adopt, following their penance in Hades.
And me too is rambling and digressing now - I applaud your own rambling and digressing. Rambling and digressing is good. Keep it up.
Likewise, mythology is so deeply powerful that you are ABSOLUTELY spot on with the need for de-mythologising (the bellicose human story) and re-mythologising (the egalitarian/anarchist human story). I don't think Nietzsche would disagree with you either - 'revaluation of all values' and all that jazz.
Psychologically, humans see the world through stories/narratives (I think you sort of pointed out, or at least embraced this in previous articles, regarding 'control of the narrative') - they don't see the world through 'facts' (this is partly a neuroscience thing, about 'perception' and the heuristic nature of human agency/decision-making/opinion-making).
Stories have a central character/protagonist - this is the archetypal 'hero' - they then have 'forces of antagonism' over which the hero must triumph.
Another thing that should be on the national curriculum - narrative theory.
I'll be writing a lot about that too soon enough (or rambling and digressing, rather - even better lol!).
Psycho fascists hate to be mocked. Maybe, what the world needs now is:
https://youtu.be/YUaxVQPohlU?si=B6tMOPMJyKdgKUK- 😁
Thanks for that 💕😎.
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of ….
It does seem to be an instance of "I Fought The Law and I Won" !
But, really it's "I fought the Arbitrariness in The Law's application....."
The Law has always been arbitrarily applied, but the battery of Laws,
such as "Hate Speech' etc laws, incorporating vague definitions, thus
allowing for arbitrary interpretations, which makes them harder to
defend against, are proliferating...
Authority has always used arbitrariness as a last resort, but "Hate
Speech" type laws have installed arbitrariness in the driver's seat...
Totally agree with you about a need for heroism (the opposite of subjugation/submission). The ongoing story/serial I'm writing on my Substack is essentially exactly about that - in my case though it's a heroine, rather than a hero, lol.
Like Eurydike - the alternative version in which it's actually Eurydike who rescues Orpheus from the Underworld, although partly because he - as equally a hero - has the courage to not just venture into that Underworld but also to venture into the deep heart of the female itself (which can also be seen as the Underworld/unconscious - yeah, I'm an unapologetic Jungian).
Just as Charon helps the souls of the newly deceased into the Underworld, at the other side, Eurydike helps them out again into whichever new incarnation they have decided to adopt, following their penance in Hades.
And me too is rambling and digressing now - I applaud your own rambling and digressing. Rambling and digressing is good. Keep it up.
Likewise, mythology is so deeply powerful that you are ABSOLUTELY spot on with the need for de-mythologising (the bellicose human story) and re-mythologising (the egalitarian/anarchist human story). I don't think Nietzsche would disagree with you either - 'revaluation of all values' and all that jazz.
Psychologically, humans see the world through stories/narratives (I think you sort of pointed out, or at least embraced this in previous articles, regarding 'control of the narrative') - they don't see the world through 'facts' (this is partly a neuroscience thing, about 'perception' and the heuristic nature of human agency/decision-making/opinion-making).
Stories have a central character/protagonist - this is the archetypal 'hero' - they then have 'forces of antagonism' over which the hero must triumph.
Another thing that should be on the national curriculum - narrative theory.
I'll be writing a lot about that too soon enough (or rambling and digressing, rather - even better lol!).
Wonderful article - thank you as usual!