week 1

August 29, and August 31

THE GREAT PYRAMID

journalism
~~history~~

~~~psychology~~~

~~~~~~dreams~~~~~~
Fable, folk lore and fairy tales

~~~~~~~~Mythology~~~~~~~~

America is:

• Budweiser
• suburbia
• honor
• Indians
• education
• impala 71
• oil
• vitality
• greed
• pride
• melting pot
• eagle
• freedom
• quilts
• hypocrisy
• 'young' and 'new'
• growth
• opportunity
• springs
• envy
• Americana
• cowboys
• baseball
• red, white and blue
• apple pie
• politics
• westerns
• soldiers
• land (mountains and prairies)
• rebel
• immigration
• liberty
• assimilation
• French fries
• walmart

America is about the old mixing with the new, then mixing with now, the innocent mixing with the corrupt. Completely new, but indebted to what is old.

Original: origins are old, nothing is ever completely new.

agon: a contest of force or will between antagonists to see who will be victorious

"all literature displaces myth" this is a time of realism, which is a central displacement of mythology.