New Myth

I'm not the type of scholar that knows how communities form myths and why. I'm not a scholar at all. But I think myth is important and likewise cool and that we don't have enough say in it. Now that may seem silly since we all know that myth is a mass production, stories that transcend the personal and have some crazy, amazing commonality. Or maybe that's what they are.

Well who is making our myths right now? Capital 'C' Culture. Capital Culture. The peeps with the money that want you to buy their shit. They sell you archetypes everyday and we're all in on it.

But myth is actually to set down on a basic level. It is only the assumption into the people that is sort of difficult. A lot of people like to say that Frankenstein is the first myth of the technological age. And that was written by a wee sprite of a girl (she was what, 21?) about how her husband and his best friend were dicks that were destroying the whole world with their egoism. (Well maybe that is what it is about.) And even before that book became the toast of the lit crit world, it was working away in our psyches about the potential dangers of trying a act like god through the use of technology.

Point being it only take a single writing to get it out there. So the idea, getting to it now, is quite simply that we should be interested in the making of myth for ourselves instead of letting it be taken care of by the suits that have something to sell. These myths can be anything really. I mean they work best when they give us some insight into the way the world and we work. They for one thing need to be reasonably clear. Maybe that is why all the PoMo crew haven't really succeeded at creating a solid myth in awhile. I think there are some things that need to be gotten over before PoMoaners can get to writing like that. One of the them is the idea that there is something new out there. Promise.

You know what I have to sell? Nothing so studied or market researched. All I wanna sell is the idea of not settling, maybe fighting for something. And a couple of t-shirts.