Time
to sit by the Campfire...
Contemporary
Mythology:
The
wasteland theory contends that all would be a wasteland
inhabited by savages were it not for the intervention of contemporary
civilization.
The term "civilization" creates
a convenient distinction between savage and contemporary man.
The savage is obviously incapable of comprehending this concept. Civilized man is rarely, if ever, called upon to explain it - yet
free to use it limitlessly to justify whatever he chooses.
The
language of the spirit becomes either the rambling of the wasteland
savage or the expressions of a perceptive, sensitive
contemporary human.
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