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Mailbag Installment 10: When Myths Collapse Faster Than Meaning
What happens when the stories that once organized a society fall apart faster than new ones can take their place?
In this Mailbag installment of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey responds to a question from a listener in Dublin, Ireland who reflects on myth as society’s nervous system and asks what occurs when old myths dissolve before new ones are formed.
This episode explores myth not as fantasy or nostalgia, but as a regulatory structure that stabilizes meaning, identity, and collective orientation. Drawing on anthropology, psychology, and neuroscience, Dr. Rey examines how…
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