mythmyth. "Here myth!"

[Alex Colter]

Mythos is really just a Greek word for Story, I am constantly reminded....

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Madeleine Maudlin <
madeleinemaudlin at gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know why I'm telling you Pynchonoids this, I should be penning an
> essay and publishing!
>
> But do you know a book I've heard mentioned a number of times lately,
> bouncing out from initial thoughts on who I've come to call the Anteskews,
> whatever civilization or people(s) that did things long ago with advanced
> technologies we have no idea about, because the jerks didn't think about us
> in all our glory and map out a readable history of themselves for us, is
> that Hamlet's Mill book, maybe some of you oldtimers, maybe Paul Fussell
> knew it, Sanillana and Dechen.  (I have played chess with the U.Thurman
> brother's, lost to that idiot Dechen, but beat the older, better player
> brother Thurman. Uma is still alive, but still.)
>
> The Mill, like what was it, some Jung notebooks being talked about a while
> ago on here, is just too much to pay for at this point for me so I'm not
> buying it, but it doesn't matter because I'm just talking about the gist,
> which is, broadly, on the of that, ancient mythologies, well basically they
> were actual truths about their society and science coded into the stories.
>
> My idea being, and maybe Hamlet's Mill gets into this, that what if
> nevertheless the myths are still myths.  Take an analogy from today.  The
> mythologies that our global banks are writing into our history about their
> achievements in our global advanced civilization, how the bank gods came in
> and toughened up corporate and company managements and lazy workers and
> built a Great Economy--none of which is true, except that the bankers
> became powerful enough to write their own mythologies.
>
> The point being, the mythologies are not just myths, they were written by
> actual beings, they're real stories, but they were still *myths*.  They *were
> *the capitalist scum that are engineering the myths of "ourself" for the
> beings on the other side of the next deluge....
>
>
>
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