ATH: Imam Mohammed (ra) "Cognitive Dissonance and Modern White Supremacists"

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)

Las Vegas = Death to the Myth of the American Cowboy

Texas = Death to the Sacredness Of Trinitarianism

Les Miserables:  Javert reveals his reasons in the song he sings when he commits suicide. ... Javert kills himself because the mercy shown to him by Jean Valjean so disrupts his black and white world view that he cannot bear to live in a world he no longer understands.

Cognitive Dissonance is the mental discomfort experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values.