Robin Hood In A Time Of Austerity

Robin Hood In A Time Of Austerity

Myth is a story that can be retold by anyone, with infinite variation, and still be recognizable as itself. The outline of surviving myth is re-recognized in the lives of each generation. It’s an instrument by which people simplify, rationalise and retell social complexities. It’s a means to haul the abstract, the global and the relative into the realm of the concrete, the local and the absolute. It’s a way to lay claim to faith in certain values. If those who attempt to interpret the world do so only through the prism of professional thinkers, and ignore the persistence of myth...