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Patterns everywhere... This is the real reality.... Campbell, so big… | Dimitrios A. Karras | 13 comments
Patterns everywhere... This is the real reality.... Campbell, so big inspiration!!! In 1929, Joseph Campbell made the worst career move possible. He'd just finished studying medieval literature in Paris and Munich. He had a master's degree from Columbia. The path was clear: get a PhD, land a university job, publish papers in your specialty.. . Instead, Campbell announced to his faculty advisor's office that he wanted to study Sanskrit, modern art, psychology, AND medieval literature. They said no. Campbell walked away... Then the Great Depression hit. Academic jobs evaporated. But Campbell decided to use the crisis as an opportunity. He rented a cabin in Woodstock, New York for twenty dollars a year. No running water. No career prospects. Just books. For the next five years, Campbell read monastically. He'd wake at dawn and read for nine hours straight. Hindu texts. Buddhist scriptures. Greek mythology... Everything. He was looking for something academics confined to their specialties would never see: patterns hidden across cultures and centuries. No academic approval. Just an obsessive search for connections between human stories. In 1934, after 5 years of voluntary intellectual exile, Campbell got a job teaching literature at Sarah Lawrence College. The school was perfect—it encouraged interdisciplinary thinking. For the next 15 years Campbell organized everything into a single revolutionary idea: every hero story—from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Hollywood—follows the same pattern. The hero receives a call to adventure. Refuses at first. Eventually crosses into an unknown world. Faces tests and trials. Undergoes transformation. Returns home changed, bringing wisdom to others. Greek myths. Hindu epics. Native American legends. Christian parables. Buddhist teachings. Arthurian romances. The specific details varied wildly, but the skeleton beneath was identical. Campbell called it the "monomyth." The hero's journey. In 1949, he published The Hero with a Thousand Faces. Academic reviewers thought he was oversimplifying complex traditions. The book sold modestly. Then nothing happened. Until 1977. A young filmmaker, George Lucas, released Star Wars. Luke Skywalker's journey—farm boy to Jedi knight—followed Campbell's pattern exactly. The call to adventure. The refusal. The mentor. The trials. The transformation. The return. Lucas publicly credited Campbell. Suddenly, everyone wanted to know: who was this mythology professor whose work had shaped the biggest movie of the decade? The monomyth became the secret architecture of blockbuster storytelling. The Hero with a Thousand Faces—published 40 years earlier—hit the bestseller list. Campbell died at 83, having lived to see his cabin-in-the-woods reading project influence how millions understand stories. Today, it's almost impossible to watch a major film without seeing Campbell's influence. The Matrix. Harry Potter, the Lord of Rings... Every hero is walking Campbell's path. | 13 comments on LinkedIn
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How the Columbian Exchange Transformed the World 🤯 The Columbian Exchange began after Columbus’s 1492 voyage and sparked one of the biggest transformations in human history. For the first time… | Wellington Assumpção Pareko Aniszewski
How the Columbian Exchange Transformed the World 🤯 The Columbian Exchange began after Columbus’s 1492 voyage and sparked one of the biggest transformations in human history. For the first time, plants, animals, and diseases moved between the Americas and the rest of the world, reshaping societies, economies, and ecosystems. American crops like potatoes and maize spread rapidly across Europe, Africa, and Asia. Potatoes helped drive Europe’s population growth and later fueled industrial expansion, while maize became a drought-resistant staple that supported new trade networks and strong kingdoms in Africa. The arrival of horses in the Americas changed Indigenous life forever, especially among Plains tribes who used them for travel, hunting, and warfare. But this exchange also brought tragedy. Diseases such as smallpox and measles devastated Native American populations, while syphilis likely spread from the Americas to Europe. At the same time, valuable medicines like quinine—used to treat malaria—enabled Europeans to survive in tropical regions. In the end, the Columbian Exchange didn’t just alter global economies; it reshaped daily life, diets, and cultures worldwide. Even everyday favorites like chocolate owe their global popularity to this era. by Geo All Day
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In 1871, Charles Darwin declared that women were intellectually inferior to men. Four years later, one woman dismantled his argument so completely that he never dared respond. Her name was… | Dimitrios A. Karras | 19 comments
In 1871, Charles Darwin declared that women were intellectually inferior to men. Four years later, one woman dismantled his argument so completely that he never dared respond. Her name was Antoinette Brown Blackwell. In 1853, at 28, she became the first woman ordained as a minister in the United States, stepping into a pulpit that centuries of theology insisted belonged only to men. Her mind ranged across philosophy, theology, and science—especially the emerging theory of evolution. When Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, she read it closely. In 1869 she published Studies in General Science, one of the first serious engagements with evolutionary theory by any American thinker, let alone a self-taught woman scientist. Darwin himself wrote to thank her for her insight. Then came The Descent of Man in 1871—and with it, Darwin’s claim that women were biologically and intellectually inferior. He argued that evolution had produced men who were more courageous, inventive, and intelligent, while women had evolved to be emotional, nurturing, and limited in abstract thought. Victorian society accepted his conclusions immediately. Antoinette refused to let that stand. For four years, she gathered evidence, dissected Darwin’s logic, and built a counterargument stronger than anything the scientific establishment expected from a woman. In 1875, she published The Sexes Throughout Nature—a direct, devastating refutation of Darwin’s claims about male superiority. She demonstrated that Darwin had cherry-picked species where males were larger or more ornamented, then treated those cases as universal. She showed that in many species—spiders, birds of prey, insects—the females were larger, stronger, or more complex. She exposed Darwin’s unexamined Victorian assumptions, revealing how he’d mistaken cultural bias for biological law. Most importantly, she argued that women’s limited opportunities—not evolutionary destiny—explained the differences Darwin called “natural.” “It is the special philosophic problem of the ages,” she wrote, “to account for anomalies in human society created not by nature, but by the artificial conditions imposed on women.” Darwin never wrote a word in response. The male scientific establishment ignored her because she was a woman who had proven them wrong. Still, Antoinette kept going. She wrote widely on science, philosophy, and women’s rights. She traveled the country lecturing. She raised five children while sustaining a formidable intellectual life. She became a pioneer of women’s suffrage. Born in 1825, she attended the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in 1850. Seventy years later—in 1920, at age 95—she cast her first vote. She was the only woman from that convention to see the movement’s victory. Antoinette Brown Blackwell lived 96 years proving that women’s intellect was not limited by nature, but by the barriers men built around it. She proved it. Methodically. Brilliantly. Irrefutably. | 19 comments on LinkedIn