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I'm Interested in Myths, Jeremy?
The dream of a fully rational, fully logical society in which they would all or mythic thought would be displaced by science and reason seems to have completely gone. I don't think nobody now believes we're ever going to live in a society like that, in which something like myth doesn't perpetuate. And I guess the appeal of myth as well is also always interesting to think about why that cultural material remains so compelling for us. The different uses people have tried to make of it in thinking about theories of culture in general.