A Culture Without Mythology Is

There Is No Real Independent Self, Aloof From Other Human Beings, Inspecting The World, Inspecting Other People. You Are, In Fact, Connected Not Just Via Facebook And Internet, You're Actually Quite Literally Connected By Your Neurons.

In Fact, On One Occasion, A Rather Pedantic Experimental Psychologist Was Telling Him About A Long, Complicated Experiment He Had Done, Incorporating All The Proper Controls And Using Considerable Technical Virtuosity. When He Saw Crick's Exasperated Expression He Said, "but Dr. Crick, We Have Got It Right - We Know It's Right," Crick's Response Was, "the Point Is Not Whether It's Right. The Point Is: Does It Even Matter Whether Its Right Or Wrong?"

Indeed, The Line Between Perceiving And Hallucinating Is Not As Crisp As We Like To Think. In A Sense, When We Look At The World, We Are Hallucinating All The Time. One Could Almost Regard Perception As The Act Of Choosing The One Hallucination That Best Fits The Incoming Data.

A Culture Without Mythology Is Not Really A Civilisation.

The Brain Abhors Discrepancies.