Word: mythsã
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It’s true that in many ways, Lévi-Strauss was the artifact of a much different world. His great legacy is structuralism, the idea that universal patterns of thought—most notably, the desire to create myths??underlie all human activities. Though that take may not be in vogue today (even in the ‘70s, one Cambridge University professor wrote that “despite his immense prestige, the critics among his professional colleagues greatly outnumber the disciples”), there’s something to admire in the impulse...
...there is a fundamental difference between such natural skepticism aimed at discovering the truth and the deep distrust of the “regular” world that invents for ourselves new myths??the kind of “X-Files” mentality that makes conspiracies ever more believable the more fantastic they become. The former, always imperfectly realized, is a difficult path to uncertain knowledge. The latter, unfortunately popular in our times, is nothing but a quick route to feelings of superiority, at least compared to the benighted masses who still believe what they...
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