OrsonWellesghost

OrsonWellesghost t1_jcu5g0l wrote

It should be noted that nationalism in the wake of the Napoleonic wars were still seen as a positive and liberating idea, especially for German speaking peoples who had never had their own singular state up to that point

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OrsonWellesghost t1_isvfa87 wrote

The author missed a perfect example of a political myth becoming an outright lie in the rise of the Christian Right in the US. The way, for instance the parable of a “judgement day” in the New Testament becomes an actual, physical event people believe will result in them being whisked away to some perfect place before the world’s destruction.

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OrsonWellesghost t1_isvd928 wrote

For history to be comprehensible, it still has to be presented as a story, with principal actors, cause and effect, and typical story structure (beginning-middle-end). The story of how the Allies won the Second World War is one example. It’s essentially a myth in the sense that it gives direction and meaning to our history, even if it doesn’t have flying cows or demigods.

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