November 1999.
The Uses And Abuses Of Myth Making
Human beings are mythmakers by nature. All the world's communities, from tribes to nations, to international bodies like the United Nations, create myths of themselves to encourage their members to value them and to face other communities and their own future with confidence. The modern nation state did this by teaching acceptance of, and belief in, its own national myth. Originally the whole point of 'compuls
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