strategy
Mythologizing
Description:
Creating a story of living and dying that reflects the origins and end of existence and the struggle of life in between. The story must be consistent with people's experience of natural and social phenomena and should give them profound significance in history among mankind.
Claim:
Mythologizing enriches a people's will to act together and to make sacrifices for their common endeavours. It makes "sense" out of life and death in both rational and non-rational ways.
Counter Claim:
Mythologizing taps people's faith without clear reference to their critical intelligence. It thus permits superstition, bigotry and hoaxes.
Broader:
Forming Narrower:
Rehearsing storiesRegenerating mythsCreating family mythReleasing new mythologyRecreating individual mythGrounding myths in realityRecounting inclusive mythsRecreating human mythologyDesigning myth-bearing decorCommunicating local mythologyArticulating social mythologyEnlivening community mythologyDemanding meaning-giving storiesRelating stories to life situationsRe-articulating needs-oriented mythsProviding raw materials for social mythsDeveloping mythology of global leadershipDemanding continuation of primordial storiesIlluminating mythological interpretations of sexualityForming societal myths and images Constrained by:
Weakening oligarchy effectiveness myth Facilitated by:
ClericalismReforming imagesInjecting images of the profound Values:
Habit-forming Organizations:
School of Slavonic and East European Studies Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition Mythopoeic Society Académie mythologique internationale References:
Nicholls, David: Deity and Domination: images of god and the state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Subjects:
Individuation → Symbols, mythsPsychology → Imagery
Sociology → Sociology
Type Classification:
B: Basic universal strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
