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To: jbe who wrote (30266)	6/28/1999 1:26:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I think that the philosophies of Technical Ascendancy and of Deep Ecology qualify as examples of a "mythos". But I'm quite amenable to hearing counterarguments. For a lot of people, either of those ideals became their cynosure of the whole ways they approached life - its meaning and operation. The mythology of the Engineer Hero riding a torch into the sky is a facet of the Technical Ascendancy mythos. But it is a word I learned from a Roald Hoffmann lecture (a Nobel chemist) who tried to talk about Science as a mythos, taking over from a long line that included the adapted and regimented Christianity of the Middle Ages. I asked him post-lecture (this was in '88) what mythos was currently taking hold. He furrowed his brow and said "Rock&roll?" I was quite disappointed. Rock is not a mythos or even a myth. At best it is a (minor, secondary) mythical vehicle, and at worst it is recursive noise.