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mythical being
«The goal of modern propaganda is no longer to transform opinion but to arouse an active and mythical belief»
Author: Jacques Ellul
| About:
Belief,
Propaganda
| Keywords:
arouse, mythical, mythical being, propaganda, transform
«Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes»
Author: Murray Edelman
| About:
Fear,
History,
Hope,
Politics,
Violence
| Keywords:
an account, cope, cope with, expenditure, largely, mythical, mythical being, Political history
«Briefly leaving behind the molars and malocclusions to enter Yoknapatawpha County, the mythical realm of madmen and malingerers, drifters and grifters, funeral parties and lynch mobs.»
«Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later...that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. The Bonfire of the Vanities»
Author: Thomas Wolfe
| Keywords:
adopted, bonfire, catastrophic, lid, lids, mythical, mythical being, protector, sense of duty, Sherman, vanities
«I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
contrast, monkey, mythical, mythical being, splinter, splintered, splintering, splinters