The Power of Myth — How Stories Become Social Infrastructure
What happens when a society outgrows the stories that once helped people understand who they are—but has not yet developed new ones?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers as our lens, this investigation explores mythology as more than ancient storytelling. Campbell presents myths as symbolic structures that connect inner experience, ritual, social order, nature, and the recurring transitions of human life.
The episode examines Campbell’s four functions of myth, his distinction between…
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