Why We’re Starving for Myth: Identity, Meaning, and the Images That Fail Us
In this episode, we dive into why our age is drowning in identity — yet starving for myth.
Drawing on Charlie Chaplin’s warning that images alone are not enough, Werner Herzog’s desperate search for adequate images, and Nietzsche’s insight that we ourselves are the creators of meaning, we explore why modern life feels so hollow.
We’ll look at how myth was once a polymodal, lived experience that trained us to see the world as sacred and ourselves as part of something vast. And why, without it, we reduce identity to something shallow, marketable, and brittle.
Ultimately, this is a call to rediscover the mythic dimension of life — to live many lives within this one, to be seized by stories that shape us, and to dare to become more than mere spectators of our own existence.
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