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For man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the rol

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"For man seems to be unable to live without myth, without the belief that the routine and drudgery, the pain and fear of this life have some meaning and goal in the future.

At once new myths come into being - political and economic myths with extravagant promises of the best of futures in the present world.

These myths give the individual a certain sense of meaning by making him part of a vast social effort, in which he loses something of his own emptiness and loneliness.

Yet the very violence of these political religions betrays the anxiety beneath them - for they are but men huddling together and shouting to give themselves courage in the dark."

~ Alan Watts
~ Born 6 January 1915 Chislehurst, England
~ Died 16 November 1973 Marin County, California, U.S.