“The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.” StatesAgePastClassDegreesMythAssumptionSuperiorityUtopiaPopulist Book:The Age of Reform Source: The Age of Reform
“The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.” ThinkingNeedsWellsChildrenLongAgePastForceConsciousnessAttitudeModernCreationGeniusSpreadActiveMythApplesCollectivesLegendsRhetoricExesNewtonModern ScienceAnecdotesGravitationCollective ConsciousnessErasersImpassionedVehementNew Attitude Author:Lucio Russo
“I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.” IfsKnowsBelievePastI BelieveMysteryConnectionsPatternsMythRepeatsCantOld Proverb Author:Ashwin Sanghi
“I absolutely believe the past had its share of warrior women who fought like men. Whether some of these were the actual Amazons from Greek myth is another matter.” MenBelieveMatterPastShareMythWarriorGreekGreek Myth Author:Anne Fortier
“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.” IfsPhilosophyPastAcceptingHistoryOur LivesWindUniversalResponseMalesDefinitionsMythBiasOur PastLensesDrifting Book:Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985 Source: Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985