The Pros and Cons of Myths

I think we can learn so much about ourselves now from what we believed about our desires, about what we were longing to be true. There's a fine line which you tread between enjoying those myths and not allowing them to have too much sway when we consider how damaging they are today. So, it's quite funny to read about the vogue for Bear Grease and the desire of, was it Elizabethan's, to pomade their hair with authentic bear fat. But it's sort of something else to learn that the bile of a bear is a $2 billion industry and is, in fact, efficacious to some degree.