How do you recognise a foundation myth? It fulfils three functions.
1)It explains the origin and structure of the world (and society). 2)It defines ultimate good and evil (and from those definitions are derived the values that are used to justify the holding of power). 3)It determines what is held sacred in that society.
For modern Westerners the story of WWII has become their foundation myth. It fulfils all three functions.
1)We live in the ‘Post-War World’. The lines on the map, the institutions, the sense of what era we live in, all arise from the starting point of WWII.
2)Ultimate evil is Nazis. Ultimate good is opposing Nazis. The values derived from these definitions are anti-racism, equality, diversity, anti-nationalism and so on.
3)The only thing that is held sacred, that cannot be denied or mocked in the contemporary West, is the Holocaust.
The problem is that all three functions are backwards or negative.
Instead of the origin event being one of fertility and new life, it was a conflagration of death and destruction.
Instead of ultimate good taking the central position in the story that slot is occupied by ultimate evil. Everyone knows that Adolf Hitler, the personification of evil, holds the centre point of the WWII story.
Instead of that which is held sacred being something mysterious and sublime it (the Holocaust) is an obscenity.
Having a negative foundation myth means the tree of life for Westerners is poisoned. > Having a negative foundation myth means the tree of life for Westerners is poisoned.
>Louis CK accused of forcing his wife to be raped by black men
Cooper White
He literally did a joke in one of his stand ups about seeing his daughter's vagina while she was naked on the bed.
Evan Flores
>prepping
Connor Williams
Why is it that all these people always act holier than thou, and yet have the most fucked up skeletons in their closets?
Nathaniel Anderson
...
Carter Jackson
>prepping
Caleb Stewart
>Ali
Carson Reed
blackmailed into it
Landon James
IT'S HAPPENING. *insert own doompaul here*
Caleb Torres
>Louis did do a joke about coming home to his daughter streching open her vagina in front of him
Lucas Garcia
At least one of /our guys/ is invincible
Brody Fisher
reminder that the older daughter from his show has nudes and he posted them back during like season 2 or 3
Easton Barnes
Nice read
David Watson
what? source? how old is she?
Gabriel Murphy
What is it with all these super-Liberal out spoken dudes that are sleazy sex perverts?
I get it, Bill O'rely is a sleaze as well, but the number of Liberal dirt bags that keep getting exposed is staggering.
Michael Adams
Stop thinking about the world in binary terms. Left and right are illusions. There is only power.
Samuel Peterson
I remember one of his old jokes form several years ago was about one of his daughters shitting on the floor while naked.
Him being a cunny addict would not surprise me.
Jack Brown
Fuck off Tom.
Noah Evans
>prepping >Louis CK Good choice of words.
Mason Ross
shes 16 now so she should have been 12 or 13 at the time and 4plebs doesn't have the old archive uploaded yet so you won't be able to see the replies confirming its her
Michael Bell
they're not even that bad, but their own moral relativism has devoured them so you can't help but laugh
