The Capturing of Myth

[davem]

Originally Posted by Bb

I don't think one can limit 'myth' to elements of the good green earth. (AndI don't think one need to class oneself as an inhabitant of the Old World to make this point. ) Cultures produce myths, as Fordim has argued, and there is no logical reason why cultures which are more divorced from their ancient roots will stop creating myths.

Possibly - I suppose my own feeling is that a myth is a story that links you with something beyond yourself - it provides you with an experience of a 'deeper, more profound, 'reality' (or, to say the same thing in another way, it provides you with a deeper & more [profound experience of this 'reality').

Machines, by their nature, seperate us from reality, from the earth - at least that's the intent & desire that motivates their creation (or should I say their 'manufacture').

It seems to me that technological societies don't produce true myths, & the inhabitants of those societies either reject the religious dimension altogether, retreat into fundamentalism - which is the 'corpse' of a once living religion, or, as Chesterton said, stop believing in God & start believing in anything.

This, though, is even further off topic!