Tag: Mythology
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Baal
Out here, the air tastes like iron filings and bad liquor. The first shot fired by Bertolt Brecht, a sharp-edged knife in the gut of polite society—Baal, a story about a man too drunk, too damned, and too dangerous to die quietly. The poet Baal is no hero; he’s a gutted animal, dragging his bloated…
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Narcissus and Psyche
In this analysis of Narcissus and Psyche, we will explore their stories through the lens of cybernetics, systems theory, and distributed consciousness. These frameworks focus on how individuals relate to their environment, the feedback loops they generate, and the mental processes that connect them within larger systems of interaction. Distributed consciousness suggests that different aspects…
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Dragons
{Scene: A cozy library lined with leather-bound books. Jordan Peterson and Richard Dawkins sit across from each other in large armchairs. A fireplace crackles behind them. Peterson wears a look of intense seriousness; Dawkins looks mildly skeptical but intrigued.] Jordan Peterson: Well, you see, Richard, the dragon is real. Not in the sense of flesh…
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Aurora and Tithonus
Imagine Tithonus, old Tithonus, sagging in skin and brittle in bone, trapped by Aurora’s misguided gift. Eternal life in a prison of withered flesh. Time turns, decades blur, but his body crawls forward in slow decay. And Aurora, still young, still radiant, like an eternal ad on the highway for some elixir of beauty, unchanging,…
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Pandora’s Box
The Real, a buzzing, chaotic id beneath the surface of existence, pulsed against the thin veneer of the Symbolic – the realm of language, a flimsy net cast over the roiling unconscious. Pandora, that curious soul, a pawn in some cosmic prank, became an archetype for the doomed yearning to pierce the veil, to glimpse…
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The Hero’s Journey
Buckle up, chum, for a headfirst dive into the primordial soup of narrative. This hero’s journey you mention, it’s become a cultural shorthand, a marketing buzzword tossed around like a hacky frisbee at a PTA picnic. Folks brandy their screenplays and self-help manuals with it, a hero’s journey here, a hero’s journey there, without ever…