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Hello David,
DMB "So the whole long project finally ends. The horse culture was
motorized and de-mythologized at the same time. This is the death of god.
This is where we find ourselves. You could say the hurricane of the 20th
century was caused by a vacuum left where the living myths used to be. I
think it explains. This is the historic moment that both Campbell and Pirsig
describe."
ERIN: I don't think I understand the assignment well enough to write 5 pages
but i wanted to inquire about a few things. I heard Campbell say in an
interview that the archetypes of this century were the artist archetype and
the scientist archetype. So why do you say "the hurriacan of the 20th century
was caused by a vacumm where the living myths used to be." I still see myths
they are just dressed up as artists and scientists this century.
When it is talked about the death of god I think of another thing Campbell
talked about in the interview. It was about the "trickster god" . He was
painted up (like a clown) so that you could not use his image as a god because
you knew something was underneath that mask.
I think the artist mask and the scientist mask both seem to be in line of the
trickster god who doesn't allow the image to be presented as a god.
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