https://twitter.com/AlishaGrauso/status/1337263317727866880?s=19

No culture but the culture pushed on you by gigantic companies trying to sell you merch. Superman v Batman is exactly the same as traditions that have been evolving naturally for thousands of years. Buying a Spiderman backpack is equivalent to knocking on wood or leaving a shot of vodka out in the woods for the leshiy. In Ant Man's name, amen.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Sounds like urban legends would be a better example of modern mythology than superhero movies, then.

    • Rodentsteak [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Folk lore serves many, many functions, and the idea that it serves merely as PSAs is a pretty reductive narrative that gets trotted out whenever you have to compare folk stories to literary genres, and its usually to show that the literary genres are better because they deal with more involved subjects or whatever. Folk tales deal with many subjects, from "Don't go into the woods at night alone" to polemics about specific virtues, to pretty deep existential questions.

      • Rodentsteak [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        This PSA brought to you by "Like two years of my primary school education was about fairy tales and I fucking hate H.C. Andersen", a subsidiary of my psyche.