The control of mythology is the key to power. Back a few hundred years, that control was more decentralized. Today, my guess is, that the main control lies in the hands of a few entities.
Here, suffice to say that Darwinian materialism’s impoverishing effect on literature is so much of a problem that my alma mater, a Christian university in Texas, published an anthology of literary works that are not nihilistic and materialistic, just to provide balance for the typical literary anthologies assigned to students in freshman and sophomore English.
It’s called Shadow and Light: Literature and the Life of Faith. It includes short stories and poems from various great authors who maintained faith in a cosmos that is more than matter — John Milton, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Flannery O’Connor, Isaac Bashevis Singer, John Updike, and various others. I highly recommend the book. It’s one of many efforts not only to recognize the threat that materialism poses to our culture, but also to do something about it.
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