Tag: finally someone said it

As an archaeologist I’m extremely dubious about the monomyth. To arrive at the hero’s journey you have to throw away all of the details of a myth and it is those details that tell you the most about what mattered to the culture whom those myths belong to.

neil-gaiman:

That’s my feeling, too. 

You also have to throw away all stories that don’t fit the pattern you are looking for, which is something we frown on when scientists or drug companies do it.