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Bill Moyers: What happens when our myth's disappear or become dysfunctional?
Joseph Campbell: Just read the newspaper. Myth's must and do provide "life-models". The myths (life-models) have to be appropriate to the possibilities of the time in which we are living. Our time has changed and will continue to change so fast that what was proper 50 years ago is not proper today. So the virtues of the past are the vices of today and many of what were the vices of yesterday are the necessities of today. And the moral order has to catch up with the moral necessities of actual life in time here and now. And that is what it is not doing. (Joseph Campbell interviewed by Bill Moyers)
“The cultural trends in America reveal the Satanic operation of manipulative principle covertly operating in the culture, influencing the cultural thinking. By the operation of such covert principle, the culture swings in pendulum from oppressive states to liberal states, bringing us a taste of the good times followed by a taste of hell. Near the bottom of the arch in the pendulum's swoop, social chaos and aberrant morality. This operation deceives the moral and rational vision in the common public and deny all Americans the freedom our nation proclaims.” WDM "As The Light Shineth In The East"
Today our society is at the bottom of the pendulum swing. In this society are being regressed to the level lower than animals.