When Andy Warhol created "Brillo Boxes" he was making a satirical statement. By using techniques that required a mastery of printmaking, the time, and the effort of a hand crafted work of art to make something that was indistinguishable from a stack of common Brillo Pads boxes, Warhol challenged definitions and made an argument about the social qualifications for good art. The comment, though clever when Warhol made it, would not be accepted in the same form again. The Heroes' Journey has been mapped, structured into formula, and it continues to emerge. There are fundamental differences between the anti-fairy-tale I am trying to tell and The Heroes' Journey. When I signed up for the class, I hoped I would find an corresponding pattern for ironic children's stories, and recreate the circumstances that lead George Lucas to the creation of Star Wars. Mythologist and philosopher Leszek KoĊakowski was of the belief that myth could not be consciously created because the knowledge of its profane origins would undermine the conditional perception as aethereal. The analogous elements I am coming to determine are between the hubris in an attempt to reproduce a phenomenon instead of culturing an original, and the inherent flaw in consciously constructing your own god.
I think an approach that would be more conducive to successful creation in my situation would be the study myth as a frame of reference rather than a recipe. For my final paper in Myth and Religion, I am going to try to find research studies on Volksgemeinschaft and the self esteem movement to contrast and compare as functional mythologies in the sense that both are social constructs that impart the culture's instruction onto its participants about "what is and is not a value" (Kolakowski 25).
Key thinkers in the self esteem movement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Branden
Volksgemeinschaft:
I need to find this author
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