196 - October 2021 Q&A
The Symbolic World
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The Patterns of Behavior in Society, Rolabart's Mythological Tropes
Roxanne Jones: I thought that rolabart was criticising social patterns as repeating mythological and religious themes. But what it endedm doing for me was the opposite, was to see the patterns and to see how they were manifesting these religious patterns. She says there is no neutral world; we can't live in a purely kind of materialistic one. And so that's ho what i got from that book. So you don't have to read it. Weg more important and more interesting things to read besides that book, if only to understand the way in which marxiss perceive how me how a meaning itself is almost is almost evil,. she adds.
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