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Re: I am afraid (4.00 / 4)
YOu cannot be a mything link if you do not believe in all them all. All them all.. actually.. it is not that you believe in them... they are just part of what you are (or actually you are htem and they are you)...even if you go somewhere else and manage to get in touch wiht others cosntitutive myths.. it will be very difficult to interiorize the new one and making it yourself...your brain is not that good at that when you grow old unles you train it...  then basically you grow and you learn and change yourself.. this is the great thing o being human and of or brain..we are incredible myth processor.

IN one sentence

Seven myths to rule you and one myth to rule them all.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Tue Nov 14th, 2006 at 04:00:53 PM EST
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Re: I am afraid (4.00 / 2)
How does culture change then? Or are those planks an unchanging basis for Western Culture?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Nov 14th, 2006 at 04:13:21 PM EST
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Re: I am afraid (none / 1)
we play with them.. we change them.. each time we implement them and paly with others.

Soem antrhopologists that culture is the people palying wiht the rules more than the rules...

So it is some kind of feedback...

So, people change it.. how?? Whne??

Puff thi sis the core of anthropology. I think there must be as many school of thougs as anthropologists.

I persoanlly think it is very valid question where we could use the scientific narrative to get an answer.. although it is very difficult.

Having said taht, the fundational myths are very difficult to change.. and normally it means a huge change in the social structure/ social order...

Margaret Mead defended that even those monumental changes start with a very small group of people wanting to change things.....other antrhopologists and sociolists would be more materialistic...

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Wed Nov 15th, 2006 at 11:22:14 AM EST
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