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Page 109
... myth - making ceremonies.227 The separate cults of education , transportation , and mass communication promote , under different names , the same social myth which Voeglin 228 describes as contempo- rary gnosis . Common to a gnostic ...
... myth - making ceremonies.227 The separate cults of education , transportation , and mass communication promote , under different names , the same social myth which Voeglin 228 describes as contempo- rary gnosis . Common to a gnostic ...
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... myth has fulfilled the function of setting limits to the materialization of greedy , envious , murderous dreams . Myth assured the common man of his safety on this third frontier if he kept within its bounds . Myth guaranteed disaster ...
... myth has fulfilled the function of setting limits to the materialization of greedy , envious , murderous dreams . Myth assured the common man of his safety on this third frontier if he kept within its bounds . Myth guaranteed disaster ...
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... myths have ceased to provide limits for action . If the species is to survive the loss of its traditional myths , it must learn to cope rationally and politically with its envious , greedy , and lazy dreams . Myth alone can do the job ...
... myths have ceased to provide limits for action . If the species is to survive the loss of its traditional myths , it must learn to cope rationally and politically with its envious , greedy , and lazy dreams . Myth alone can do the job ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Medicalization of Life | 39 |
Specific Counterproductivity | 211 |
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