Myth-making is absolutely necessary to create the simplified images that people live off.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
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.
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.
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
Human beings have always been mythmakers.
All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
I think that we need mythology. We need a bedrock of story and legend in order to live our lives coherently.
Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.