TIL that my short list of human universals is even shorter.
Campbell's monomyth doesn't even work for a lot of Western (or claimed into the Western canon) myths! Folklorists/anthropologists/people in the traditions he assimilated have been arguing with him since The Hero with a Thousand Faces was published in 1949. But it has an enormous foothold in pop culture and therefore we still need to have panels about how the idea of the one universally relatable (very male, very New Age-y) story sounds great in a bar at two a.m.
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Campbell's monomyth doesn't even work for a lot of Western (or claimed into the Western canon) myths! Folklorists/anthropologists/people in the traditions he assimilated have been arguing with him since The Hero with a Thousand Faces was published in 1949. But it has an enormous foothold in pop culture and therefore we still need to have panels about how the idea of the one universally relatable (very male, very New Age-y) story sounds great in a bar at two a.m.