H.P. Lovecraft: Style, Science, Myth
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42. The Myth of Choosy Women, Promiscuous Men
It is one of the most familiar concepts from evolutionary biology: Natural selection makes males promiscuous and females choosy. But in June, Patricia Gowaty of UCLA exposed a major flaw in the evidence supporting that idea. The Bateman principle, as it is known, assumes that males sire more offspring if they mate with more females,[...]
Gain a Child, Lose a Tooth: Myth or Reality?
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The myth of an ending: Apocalypse as a spiritual path
An online friend named Karl, who runs the antinatalist blog Say No to Life, responded to yesterday’s post about the apocalyptic direction the weather has been taking (“Heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, floods, superstorms: The future is here“) by giving me a word of caution: “Matt, it sounds like you’re urging on the Apocalypse with all your[...]
A Planetary Myth
Joseph Campbell once said that any new myth, in the “high” sense of the word as an overarching, meaning-making narrative, would necessarily have to be planetary in scope and nature, given the global outlook of our modern technological civilization. He said the famous image of planet earth as photographed from space — an image unknown[...]
‘This myth is realized today in us’: On the deep meaning of Christmas
Most of my readers know that I grew up in a strongly evangelical Protestant tradition and went on to make the study of world religions, spiritualities, and philosophies a major part of my life. This informs all of my horror fiction (and in fact forms a great deal of its explicit substance), as well as[...]
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