Myths of our lives: Good and Bad
I work in a school, teaching math. When I was a student, I did not enjoy math class. I felt as though there was a "right" way to do the problems, and I certainly did not know that right way. This, in turn, made me feel like an idiot. My assumption was that all of my peers very clearly knew the right way, and the only reason I did not was because I was less good, or worse, than they were. All of us that are alive believe together in a myriad of collective myths. Most of these are benign, or necessary to avoid total anarchy. We believe in the myth that you must stop your car at a stop sign. We believe in the myth that you need to use money, another myth, to buy food at the grocery store. It's arguable that those myths are necessary in order for society or civilization to exist. Otherwise, we'd live in a chaotic wasteland. The existence of a good-bad dichotomy is another myth that most of us believe in. It was first posited by Zoroaster (also known as Zarathustra), an...