Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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.
It's the historian's job not to ridicule the myths, but to show the difference between myth and reality.
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.
I am attracted to myths.
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 wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.