Jeremy Bent

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  • Troubling to say the least

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    I worked with many smart, talented improvisers during my time with The Spin, a political improv show I was part of last year. One of them, a particularly incisive and well-informed gentleman, produced a documentary about the origins and consequences of global poverty entitled The End of Poverty?. It was a selection at the Cannes…

  • More Quotations

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    I can’t stop quoting Joseph Campbell, but apparently he can’t stop being incredibly insightful. Mythology is defeated when the mind rests solemnly with its favorite or traditional images, defending them as though they themselves were the message that they communicate.

  • More Excerpts

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    From Hero With A Thousand Faces: Whenever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history or science, it is killed. The living images become only remote facts of a distant time or sky. Furthermore, it is never difficult to demonstrate that as science and history, mythology is absurd. When a civilization begins to reinterpret…

  • J. Campbell Wisdom

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    Instead of clearing his own heart, the zealot tries to clear the world. Awesome. The Hero with a Thousand Faces continues to be revelatory and brilliant.

  • The Myths Just Keep On Coming

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    More great stuff from The Power of Myth: Campbell: There are some teachers who decide they won’t teach at all because of what society will do with what they’ve found. Moyers: What if the hero returns from his ordeal, and the world doesn’t want what he brings back? Campbell: That, of course, is a normal…

  • Power of Myth

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    I’m reading Joseph Campbell’s The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers, and it is blowing my mind. So much basic, simple stuff that feels so relevant. All these primitive cultures sharing the same stories despite being geographically isolated from each other because they’re trying to describe the same realities in their day to day existence.…