eftychia: Me in kilt and poofy shirt, facing away, playing acoustic guitar behind head (cyhmn)
posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2021-10-17

"[L]et's not forget that actual myths are valuable. Myth isn't the opposite of fact, but the narrative that we tell ourselves about ourselves. Humans really are self hating if we have to render stories about the human experience illegitimate to feel legitimate." -- Morgana Adby ([twitter.com profile] MorganaAdby), 2021-09-27

[This is in line with the way I use the word 'myth'. There are stories historians confirm are true, and religious stories I believe to be true, that I call myths because their importance lies not in their being factual, but in what they tell us about ourselves, who we think we are, and who we ought to be. There are other true stories that are merely history. By the same token, not all fictional stories are myths; some are, and others are merely stories.]

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