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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Edwarda who wrote (48632)8/3/1999 3:56:00 PM
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As every great teacher knows, the best way to teach the young is through stories, fables, etc. The fable of the grasshopper and the ant is more instructive to a child -- and to most adults -- than a dissertation on the economic consequences of profligacy and the conservation of resources.

I think that certain societal myths are both necessary and beneficial. In fact, there is a good case to be made that the deliberate destruction of many aspects of our societal mythology has caused -- perhaps in come cases intentionally -- much of the polarization which infests society today. People who share a common values mythology are more unified, more societally adjusted. (Look at Japan for a good example.)

Obviously, as with all things, there must be a balance. But the work of Joseph Campbell and Eric Ericson, among others, is, IMO, ignored at our peril.
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