![]() ![]() Such beliefs are transported through time by legendary stories to justify some practice, rite or phenomenon of nature. ‘Myth’ is defined as a widely held but false belief without a determinable basis of fact. ![]() Malik’s latest book, We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent, sets out to analyze the rationale behind cultural thinking, which she refers to as myths. Culture is so weaved into our thought processes that it assumes the status of being the only natural way to organize the world, an issue of common sense rather than values. Whereas the injustice of another group’s mores can be easily identified, it takes concerted effort to unpack one’s own cultural thinking. Alfred North Whitehead.Įvery human society has a cultural framework that advocates a value system along with a code of behaviour, the logic of which is cemented into the collective mind via common narratives. Those societies, which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows. ![]()
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