A New Powerful Myth: the era of men

A vision came to me once tracing my existence back to the beginning. Fortunately the beginning time was the same as the present time. The vision was reassuring, really. I expect the trend will continue into the future.


Until not too long ago popular culture dominated what I thought of my world. Good and Bad was determined by others and passed down unto me where I fumbled with the instructions only to end up more miserable than before. Such a process of personal behavior management--relying upon illegitimate authorities-- is the antithesis of a healthy society. While reliance upon a parent or guardian may be appropriate in the instances where they remain legitimate, too often authority is mishandled and manipulated. Thus, in many ways a style of acculturation dependent on unreliable icons reflects the corporate mentality of insincere community and authority. As such, participation is lessened and communal goals reflect that of the elites rather than the entirety of the population. This process of production and reproduction of customs and ideology is unsustainable and corrupting as many members finish feeling depressed and marginalized because after all it is not the individual determining their customary behavior. Such a perpetuating style of alienating life leaves all of us feeling more depressed than the previous day. In other words, the original structure of authoritarian leadership seen in popular culture perpetrated by all of the trend-setters and their tools of mass deception and politics by our elected leaders creates a system of frustrated community-less people led by a familiar television personality.

Recognizing this trend, we all need a new popular myth. An empowering vision of the future granting all the confidence in the world to demand more form our formal leadership. Played on all the TV screens and computer monitors, this new language of love will only be spoken through the body; the means of self-expression will be granted through no centralized bureau, but wielded for and by each of us. This language of love will not be fixed and stagnant like past icons of popular culture asking for world peace, but must be fought for by all on the streets of the mainstream. Jammed and unforgettable the new popular myth would go defunct directly after being viewed. The new myth empowers all to the means to freedom of thought, speech, and dress; a confidence to think and act for ourselves. The methodology of liberation lies both with the individual and the community to commit to always remember and recognize the need and needlessness of consumption. The new myth cannot be commercialized and sold. In the end, the new myth is the manifestation of the modern good: everything in moderation.

For me then, my new myth is the miraculous transformation of the human character. In the face of the worst kind of tragedy, we see the fragility of evil and thereby manifest the union of bad and good. Such a transformation would accurately portray the complexities of modern life.