@0xabad1dea I'm glad your post prompted me to reread Aisling McCrea's 2019 essay in Current Affairs: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2019/07/what-nuclear-semiotics-are
The United States understands danger in the form of external threats, but not the danger within itself: the desire of civilizations to consume the land they perch on, to draw resources out from the ground and use them all up, to create great pestilences as a byproduct of its inventions, and realize (too late) the ramifications of what’s been done. There is something different between the inventive, enthusiastic way the U.S. Department of Energy reacted to the nuclear waste problem in the 1980s, and the timid, bounded way it reacts to climate change now. We have lost the ability to imagine the future.
"... this rejection of mythos didn't die with the 1980s. In fact, the denial of mythos is everywhere in our culture, and it can partially explain why so much of our approach to everything artistic, challenging, or mysterious seems reductive, dull, and unimaginative."
- #AislingMcCrea, 2020
"According to [#KarenArmstrong], fundamentalist forms of religion - such as the schools of Christianity that dominated the Reagan years - collapsed these two worlds of understanding into one. One might think that mythos was the preferred realm of evangelicals, since they believe so strongly in God. But no - it's logos that they love, and mythos they have no use for."
- #AislingMcCrea, 2020
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/02/satanic-panics-and-the-death-of-mythos
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