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Sett från Spaldingsgatan

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Myths as predators

 

 

    

 

                THE PROLIFIC MYTH

 

 

A common idea is that a myth is something one analyzes, and that it is something not really real, but more fiction, albeit a fiction that has a deeper meaning than stories in general. What few people realize is that we all, individually, are parts of not just one, but parts of many myths. Equally few realize that these myths, of which we are so little aware, significantly determine our lives. As Claude Lévi-Strauss asserts[1], it is not the task of myth research to clarify how humans think, nor how myths think, but how myth thinks in humans. To gain perspective on what a myth is and is not - which is not entirely easy to determine - one can, while trying to determine this, also consider what humanity would have instead, as a better or worse substitute, if myths had never existed. Some people argue that myths are socially necessary, being as they are ( according to Barthes ) “ideological speech” -  and that the criterion of truth for a myth is its "effectiveness." The effectiveness of a myth—so the argument goes—would be connected to its general, empirically validated, positive validation and inspirational power. As everyone knows, fiction can be both a myth itself and a part of a myth. Fiction can still examine, in a conscious or unconscious way, the current overarching myth, as well as myths from earlier eras, or alternatively, myths from humanity’s very early childhood, when we separated ourselves from beings with, in some respects, lower levels of consciousness. The myth is peculiar when looked at more closely; as Lévi-Strauss—the man behind books such as The Savage Mind and The Jealous Potters—points out, the myth and its parts are such that no part of a myth is more important than another.[2] Indeed, one could say of a myth—unlike historical writing—that no part is independently significant, or that all parts are. Just as it is in a work of art. Through integrated totality, art operates. But fiction is then—as mentioned—both a myth, as a historical phenomenon, and a creator of myth in its diverse forms: literature, visual arts, or film, etc., etc.

Myths are messages;[3] they are communication. Myths are not very often created on demand.[4] A conspiratorially inclined person might believe that this is precisely what they do. That they are tailored to lead the herd of sheep. No, myths mostly emerge from other created things, or other signs, concepts or myths.. They often come as something imposed, as if to seal holes that have opened up, or because something hangs loosely and flaps in the wind. That this is the case does not mean that Power cannot benefit from it, and that the powerless cannot suffer from the effects of the myths sanctioned by power. Myths are not created from nothing, - no they are never primary - , but they always build on some event or idea that has matured for a while. After a suitable time period, the myth thus – second hand predators as they are - emerges. In this, it resembles mysticism, which, according to a theory presented by G. Scholem, arises in relation to a religion only after some time has passed, and perhaps when the religion in question has lost a little of its initial charm. And it is like the Renaissance, which did not arise fifty years after antiquity, but only in the 1300s-1400s, when an aura had began to form around what the ancient people had engaged with, which attracted as one perhaps found one’s own time rather gloomy[5], and a bit too overshadowed by Christianity[6]. It would, of course, not least in the interest of the powerless, be beneficial to try to clarify what promotes the creation of holes and rifts, and what they are primarily filled with in terms of mythic material, and what it means when things hang loosely and flap in the wind, especially when myths are keen to ensure that this does not happen. What regularities exist in this vast ideological, trope, and narrative supramechanism of myth production? What is it that causes, as soon as a sign, a concept, an ideology, a set of beliefs,  a conceptual phenomenon is born or made conscious, that a myth forms in its vicinity, overshadowing it?

Are there, as Barthes and Baudelaire thought, objects that are fundamentally suggestive,[7] so that they are almost doomed from their conception to evolve into myths? If so, why?

          Were the works of Kafka and Freud such objects, - “fundamentally suggestive”? If so, why? If they were, were they only suggestive in a certain historical context? If so, which context? “Le rapport de la crise et du discours définit l´œuvre.”[8]

 It is important to realise that when the myth is formed it regards its object, which is a conception, a set of conceptions or a set of beliefs and values, as PRIMA MATERIA, as something given, established, and which in itself can not n be disputed. Hence, myth, so to speak, sets out as a source interpreting the EVIDENT. Myth speaks directly to the people, as myth almost always is very simple in its form, and positions itself as the friendly interpreter, the underdog, in the service of the broader layers of the people.

        That is why, because people also know this, myth subsequently has been seen equivalent to “lie”, to untruth. At the same time as the myth is seen as something which is not true, it has yet an existence, and since it has obliterated what it is a myth about, it still stands as a kind of description of something real, which, even if people always realize that it may not be true at all, still forms itself as some kind of fact in the actual cultural universe.

Myth is therefore like the well known face of an unknown, thriving in our society and in our minds.

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[1] L.-S., Le Cru et la Cuit, p. 20.

[2] As if through some marvel, many historians of ideas are also renowned musicologists, like, for instance, Adorno, Lévi-Strauss, and Vladimir Jankélevitch, and it is in fact very rare to meet with absolutely tone-deaf people, like S. Freud, involved in the study of myths.

[3] Barthes, p.193.

[4] Cf. The Huntington myth of “the clash of civilisations”. Philosophical myths can be regarded as ordered. They are often ordered by religious leaders, or by failed Philosophy itself, and are often construed, rationalistically, as a material for religious speculation, involving dubious concepts like “The Absolute”, which has absolutely no meaning at all. Cf. Spinoza, Lévinas, and Kolakowski.

[5] Scholem, Den Judiska Mystiken. ( Jewish Mysticism.)

[6] Michael Levey, Early Renaissance.

[7] Barthes, p.194.

[8] Ib.p.199.

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 Mitt namn är Samuel Diggerson. Jag var för inte så länge sedan 3:e styrman på m/s Punjab, ett fartyg som ni troligen har hört mycket om i samband med de senaste årens katastrofer. Jag har bestämt mig för, efter viss tvekan, att ge en redogörelse, som ju inte kan bli annat än bättre än alla dessa helt felaktiga berättelser om vad som hände häromåret beträffande fartygets öde. Vad hände egentligen ombord under den 1 långa färden på Atlanten och Indiska Oceanen? Här är nu min historia.

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“Et si le soleil ne revenait par demain … N´est-ce pas, ajoute-t-il, le plus veille angoisse du Monde ? » 1 G. Simenon, Le Roman de l´homme, p.27. 

26 oktober. Allt detta utspelade sig efter att den stora viruspandemin, Covid19, som hade paralyserat världen under flera 1 “Och om solen inte skulle gå upp I morgon? Är inte just det, ropade han, den äldsta skräck som finns i hela världen?” 2 år, äntligen lugnat ner sig lite. Helt skulle den ju aldrig försvinna. Det hade vi lärt oss av experterna. Världsekonomin, moralen och samhällssystemen hade utstått svåra påfrestningar, många över hela klotet hade dött, andra drabbats av hunger och fattigdom, sorg och hemlöshet och man kan ju bara vara glad att det inte blev revolution. I november detta år hade jag blivit sista minuten-anställd av Rattner & Rattner, det stora Londonrederiet, som tredjestyrman på m/s Punjab, ett enormt bulkfartyg av Geared Carrier modell. Med detsamma jag fått beskedet om min anställning efter att ha kallats till personalavdelningen denna dag, begav jag mig till fots från Emmet Street, där kontoret låg, ut till hamnområdet. Ett lätt regn strilade över centrala London och kom den annalkande skymningen att te sig ännu dystrare. Men jag begav mig alltså ändå, glad över att ha en ny anställning, ut till mitt fartyg, som låg vid ankar på redden utanför North West Pier No 3 i yttre norra hamnen. Den brådska, som rådde när jag anställdes, berodde ytterst på ett bråk på en Londonbuss tidigt samma morgon som båten skulle avgå. Den ordinarie tredjestyrmannen - vars namn jag nu har glömt - hade helt oprovocerat blivit påhoppad och misshandlad av ett fyllo på buss 36, och måst tas till sjukhus med bruten arm och ett långt köttsår i ansiktet. Rederiet hamnade nu i ett prekärt läge och behövde snabbt en ersättare för bortfallet av styrmannen. Jag själv, som då var förstestyrman på en annan av rederiets Bulk Carriers - Swanee -, som för tillfället också låg i London, en båt med mindre stressat schema, blev meddetsamma föreslagen jobbet, och jag beslöt att tacka ja, delvis eftersom man erbjöd en bonus. Det var bråttom, bara med några timmars varsel skedde alltihop. Att komma ut till fartyget var besvärligt denna kväll. Mitt ordinarie skepp, Swanee, låg på grund av platsbrist i en helt