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God is the first 'boss' we must defeat within. I read (idr where) interesting take of this from the western standpoint in Greek Mythology as a sort of economics take Saturn (ancient societies) defeating his parent Uranus (collectivist ancient societies) and in turn getting defeated by his child Zeus (artistocratic-feudal-and budding bourgeois society).
That is bullshit. I hate the idea that every myth is supposed to map to some very real thing that happened. And calling any iron age civilization "budding bourgeois" is asinine. You can't get that until complex steel tools emerge that significantly reduce the amount of labor needed to work a field, so feudal living becomes unsustainable.
No argument there, not to mention myths can speak to cultural symbols of multiple eras, get re-cast, forgotten and irrelevant, etc. I thought that was neat seeing some lib academic tying symbolism and economics together, though as you point out they fail their history of production pretty hard.
I'm gonna say I don't think economics and mythology will ever precisely map onto each other. Only thing like that is the prosperity gospel, and that's a school of thought running counter to most of Christian mythology.
God is the first 'boss' we must defeat within. I read (idr where) interesting take of this from the western standpoint in Greek Mythology as a sort of economics take Saturn (ancient societies) defeating his parent Uranus (collectivist ancient societies) and in turn getting defeated by his child Zeus (artistocratic-feudal-and budding bourgeois society).
That is bullshit. I hate the idea that every myth is supposed to map to some very real thing that happened. And calling any iron age civilization "budding bourgeois" is asinine. You can't get that until complex steel tools emerge that significantly reduce the amount of labor needed to work a field, so feudal living becomes unsustainable.
No argument there, not to mention myths can speak to cultural symbols of multiple eras, get re-cast, forgotten and irrelevant, etc. I thought that was neat seeing some lib academic tying symbolism and economics together, though as you point out they fail their history of production pretty hard.
I'm gonna say I don't think economics and mythology will ever precisely map onto each other. Only thing like that is the prosperity gospel, and that's a school of thought running counter to most of Christian mythology.