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Attention, this is an important bulletin. This is the second episode of the podcast that was released

today. It is crucial that you go back and listen to the one before this before you listen to this one.

These two episodes are sold bound. They belong together spiritually and the only way to be

fair to them is to listen to them together. Thank you in advance. I hope you love the show today.

So just to start, I want to rephrase something we talked about a couple episodes ago,

because I think it's really important to frame our discussion here today.

There are practically an infinite number of possible combinations of words that you can

cobble together and read, but it wouldn't be until those words adhere to a very specific underlying

structure that they would work or have any semblance of meaning to anyone at all.

Language has a structure, and we can observe this structure, we can study this structure,

and if you're a structural linguist, you may be able to predict how that structure is going to

change in the future. Well, to many of these thinkers that follow up on the methods proposed by

Fernandes Sursur, what it seems like to them is that culture has a specific underlying structure

as well. And when bars use a semiotics to study mass media and get to this mythology that lies

underneath the surface level, this is one of the first attempts to gain access to that underlying

structure of culture so that we can observe it, so that we can study it. And yes, looking at culture

almost in a new scientific sort of way, to try to be able to predict cultural changes that will

occur in the future before they actually happen. By the way, if any of this mythology business

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