There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.
You need more people to perpetuate a myth because if the people stop the myth is known to all.
American public policy is run on a myth.
When we think of the myth of the settling of the West, this is our creation myth. But because we think of it as mythology, not as real people interacting with other real people, we ignore the cost of human lives and blood.
There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.
Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.
No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.