THE LIMITS OF MYTH: THE MYTHS AND DEFLATION The series: 1) …Myth, (wisdom – tr

THE LIMITS OF MYTH: THE MYTHS AND DEFLATION

The series:

1) …Myth, (wisdom – traditional ethics)

2) … … Super-normalism, (Imitation ethics)

3) … … … Super-naturalism, (idealism, appeals to authority)

4) … … … … Monotheism, and (absolute claims of authority

5) … … … … … Authoritarian monotheism (demand for submission)

– describes a spectrum from advice to claims to authority, to demand for submission to authority.

The Demands that produce them are:

1) … The development of cooperation in numbers requires myth

2) … … The development of a division of labor requires heroes.

3) … … … The development of polities requires decidability across them.

4) … … … … The development of parasitism requires claims to authority

5) … … … … … The development of tyranny requires submission.

The “Good” fictions:

1) … Myth is required for identification of cooperative candidates.

2) … … Super-normalism (Hyperbole) is required for education given our vast differences in ability

3) … … … Super-naturalism (idealism) is necessary for modeling hyperbolic goods (exaggerating goals)

The “Bad” Fictions remain.

Advanced societes require a founding narrative (strategy), polytheism(multiple applied narratives), but one law (decidability) to resolve disputes across them.

Western man was trained by deflationary truth – the separation of narratives and institutions.

it is this training – the dissonance of competition – that created the unique virtues of western man.