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“People can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is animated.”
“When freedom is practiced in a closed circle, it fades into a dream, becomes a mere image of itself.”
“the opposite direction: playing old footage, over and over, until a mythical structure declares itself.”
As the work of Claude Levi-Strauss perpetually reminds us, every myth never merely describes, but participates in the myth it narrates. Myths within myths, a continuous re-writing that is never separate from its putative foundations. There can be no “outside” to any myth.
