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Bonus excerpt: "The West" and Other Myths with Daniel Walden

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Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

An excerpt from today's bonus episode, available in full to our Patreon patrons, in which amusements editor Lyta Gold and senior editor Brianna Rennix discuss myths with Classics scholar Daniel Walden, who recently wrote in the magazine about how the whole concept of “Western civilization" is a myth. Tune in to learn about why the myth of dragons may be a lefty one, why Jordan Peterson is confused about myths, what an anti-pope is, what myths can teach us about national origin stories, the purpose of trickster gods, and more.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, listeners. It's your host, Pete Davis here. Great news to report. We just released

0:08.3

over at the bird feed a new bonus episode, all about myths. It was prompted by a recent popular

0:16.8

current affairs essay by Daniel Walden about how the idea of quote unquote

0:21.9

Western civilization is really in fact a myth.

0:27.0

Our amusements editor, Leida Gold, and our senior editor, Brianna Renix, brought Walden

0:32.0

into the studio at the Current Affairs World headquarters and talked to him all about the joys and dangers

0:38.3

of his area of expertise, myths.

0:42.9

Tune in if you want to know why the myth of dragons, in fact, may be a lefty one,

0:47.5

why Jordan Peterson is confused about myths, what myths can teach us about nationalism,

0:53.1

what the purpose of trickster gods is, what an anti-poppe

0:56.5

is, and much more. To listen, become a patron on our Patreon page. That's patreon.com slash current

1:04.2

affairs. When you do, you'll get access to the bird feed, which is all of the bonus episodes

1:09.9

from the current affairs

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extended universe.

1:13.3

We'll be back next week with a main episode on this feed, but for now, here's an excerpt

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from this bird feed bonus myth episode.

1:26.1

So, like, Campbell will talk about, like, what it means it means to like slay a dragon or whatever.

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Chaos dragon.

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Chaos dragon.

1:33.6

Oh my God.

1:34.3

She's here.

1:35.5

Got to slay that Fivo Chaos Dragon.

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