The Myth of French Culture

Bars says mythology can smuggle in with it an entire set of values that people mistakenly interpret as fact or, again, just the way the world is. The myth consumer takes the signification for a system of facts, Bars says. Barth says that oftentimes, when these values are smuggled in, mythology can get otherwise perfectly decent people to participate in systems or behaviors that only a monster would participate in if they were self aware how much mythological baggage they carry around with them.