Mythodynamics
Patterns and dynamics of mythopoetic cognition; psychological, cultural, sociological, historical, etc
by River Kenna · updated 4mo ago
Mythodynamics
If you don’t have the ocean waiting to crush you, or a puma stalking you through the forest, you have to manufacture your own sense of stakes, of generative urgency.
River Kenna added 4mo ago
- This is, as I see it, the core characteristic of the Anthropocene: the human psyche has become one of the most powerful forces we know of, but we’re still terribly clumsy novices with it. We can start out with a desire to sell more cotton, and before you know it, an ecosystem has vanished and we’ve got skyrocketing rates of esophageal cancer.
from Into the Psychozoic
River Kenna added 4mo ago
- “His three Eras or Dominants are: (1) the Old Dominant of religion, which he associates with the way of knowing called belief and the professionalism of priests; (2) the present Dominant of materialistic science, which he associates with the way of knowing called explanation and the professionalism of scientists; and (3) the New Dominant of what he... See more
River Kenna added 1y ago
The Failure Mode of the Journey is to Be Certain You've Arrived
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