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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

entry arrow10:57 PM | What We Can Learn From Myths



I find comfort in stories, and the truth we can glean from them. But we have forgotten the common trajectory of myths and where the hero comes in for their journey. We forget that myths have a back story, that of the first rise of evil [Voldemort coming to power, Sauron fashioning the ring and controlling most of Middle Earth, Marcos declaring Martial Law] -- and then their unexpected demise [Voldemort repelled by a baby to near mortal oblivion, Sauron vanquished and losing his ring, Marcos booted out by People Power and then dying]. We forget there always follows a long period of lull, characterized by apathy and forgetfulness [Voldemort dormant for fourteen years, Sauron dormant for a thousand years, the spirit of Marcos dormant for thirty years], and a complacency that believes evil can never happen again. But it does happen [Voldemort and Sauron finally stir, and the specter of Marcos reappears in Duterte]. The forces of evil begin winning again, their second rise. And this is where the stories, our beloved books, always start, right? And always began by the unlikely: a boy named Harry, a hobbit named Frodo, all the angry voices all over the Philippines finally waking up to the smell of murderousness and incompetence. We are the hero, and this is the start of our journey of becoming. Heed the call. The story always ends with the triumph of good over evil.

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