[MD] Christendom's place in the MOQ

[david buchanan]

Krimel, what does it mean to say "the sound of the world IS the mythos"? The sound of the world is a mixture of ringing phones, pleading ads, rushing traffic, multi-tasking busyness and talk radio blowhards. That does not constitute a myth. It's just noise. I was thinking (along with Emerson, Campbell, Jung, Dewey, Heidegger, Pirsig and others) that the technological world cuts us off from nature and that nature is the source of myth and its symbolism. And if myth is collective then what sense does it make to claim that we only have to read the symbols from someone else's? To the extent that we have our own myth, it is only a particular subset of something the whole species shares. I mean, it seems pretty clear to me that you don't understand the problem. Why is the psyche symbolized by a butterfly? A snake? Why does the quaternity show up all over the world and what does that symbolize? Why is the kingdom of heaven like a mustard seed? Maybe this is all quite clear to you but most people contemporary people are baffled by these symbols despite their centrality in myth. 
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