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Originally Posted by Marhkimov
No, actually I was more referring to Western tall tales, Ancient legends, and Greek mythology.
Obviously, the content of many such elaborate stories are not true. But they do serve a purpose, and a very good one at that. It's called STORYTELLING.
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i don't think it's entirely fair to compare Homer's Illiad to U571 (tho i take your point)
it's not the fact these tales are told but rather how they are told and for what reason---nothing has actually changed regarding the telling of storys
except that when the Illiad was written only those who could read could actually gain access to it--limiting the need for it to be aimed at a mass market--(if indeed that was the intention)
now a days most every body has access to story telling--via the visual arts (meaning in this case) movies et al
we all have the capacity (taken as a whole) to understand and enjoy complex story telling-- and it's in this way often we learn about life --
politicians could do with learning from this--if they encourage the production of more complex tales thru the mass media then folks will develop a taste for them over time (quite quickly i suspect with some clever intermediate spin doctoring making them temprarily "cool" untill folks become accustomed)
BUT they them selves would then have to demonstrate more openess and transparancy regarding their policys and political stance- in order to satisfy the general publics more acute collective "brain" as it were--
perhaps they allready do--
nah---couldn't be--