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“From gods, spirits, or “fairy” – to use Tolkien’s term, being present in the world we moved to a mechanistic world produced by a single architect, where all things are objects or mere “creatures” following the divine plan. It was then but a small move to banish the architect and be left with a blind clockwork universe.”

I don’t think this was as much a result of the move to monotheism as the rise of Newtonian physics. Up until that moment, the laws of the heavens were thought to be different from the laws that governed the earth. Newton showed they were one and the same. That’s the real importance of gravity and contributed to the rise a mechanistic view of the world (and political theory). Then, under Darwin and evolution, the view of society shifted toward an evolving organism (which is where we get the “Living Constitution” that the government can ignore because society has evolved beyond its restrictions).

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This is my exact question. Don’t forget T.S. Eliot. He also mentioned discussing fantasy as a genre as well as the current dystopian teen fiction trend. I’d also like to hear about how the rise of the antihero fits into mythology. I guess in many ways, Odysseus is about as antihero as someone can get. And finally what would a discussion on contemporary mythology be without Star Wars and Game of Thrones!!!

An interesting line of thought would be the rise of internet fan fiction and the large scale rejection of the Star Wars Prequels by many long time fans. I personally do not regard them as “canon” but simply high budget “fan fiction.”

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Sorry for resurrecting an old thread. (Okay, I’m lying I’m not sorry.)

I would love to bring up some of Charles Murray’s stuff in Losing Ground and Coming Apart. The problem is that I will immediately be referred to articles like these, and I do not have enough background to refute them.

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/general/news/2012/02/09/11159/think-again-charles-murray-and-the-power-of-mainstream-media-amnesia/

Do you know of any resources for debunking the debunkers?

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Found it: The Economic Laws of Scientific Research by Terence Kealey
http://www.amazon.com/The-Economic-Laws-Scientific-Research/dp/0312173067/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409844340&sr=8-1&keywords=economic+laws+of+scientific+research

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