Monday, August 30, 2004

A Kind of Innocence We'd Never Seen Before

I wanted the myth of the sixties to be real--that idealism, that sense of a higher purpose. I wanted to believe in something, and I found it in the Dead. Fittingly, renowned mythologist Joseph Campbell found something there too. Despite his extreme distaste for popular culture (he only ever saw two movies, didn't read the newspaper, and hadn't attended a pop concert in decades), he went to see the Grateful Dead and felt “in immediate accord” with them.

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Blogger tim boucher said...

I don't get how Joseph Campbell could have such a distaste for pop culture. It seems completely incongruous to me, considering he was all about how myths played out in the modern world. I mean, I know he was into Star Wars, but that's not the only place where archetypal stuff pops up. It's all around

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