The metamorphosis of Saul

Have you ever wondered why Better Call Saul is so popular … and so binge-watchable? Well, once again, with my mythologist’s eyes on it, I can see how its scaffolding is constructed from the oldest story ever told, and the one guaranteed to get bums on seats every time. It’s the story we never ever…

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Stories for our white children

It is now more important than ever to support the (few) life-giving children’s movies coming out of the Hollywood dream factory. It is no longer – nor was it probably ever – OK, to sit our kids in front of Netflix and Disney and just hope for the best. There is no such thing in…

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The mythology of Squid Game

Squid Game has become a massive worldwide hit on Netflix, but some of its success must surely be due to what most people have gone through during the last two years? Many more of us than ever, it seems to me, are now wondering whether we are just the poor victims of some fateful game…

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What our ancestors were trying to tell us

Pretty much most of what they call history is a tissue of liesAnd all that remains true are the stars in the skies. Not even the greatest cataclysm on EarthCould make these starships slip their moorings,Nor cause their navigators to lose their bearingsAlong the voyage of the hero, from his stable birth.

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The Destination of the Mythological Hero and the Perpetual Choirs

The sole and soul purpose of the journey of the mythological hero is for him to ultimately join the perpetual choirs that are continually and joyously singing the praises of this magnificent creation, the resonance from the song lines of which fertilises and sustains its overarching, magnitudinal majesty. At night, the Moon and the stars…

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