Bookmarked for watching, hopefully sometime this week.
Ouroboros has been used in so many mythologies I'm not sure it's fair to use it to describe this phenomenon, or to compare it, to, um, the other :)
This kind of thing has happened so many times, though, in so many iterations. I really think it's part of something deeper, wrapped up with a willingness to dehumanize an "other" in order to make simple, reactive narratives easily swallowable. While some will try to excavate fuller history in good faith, others will try to use that excavation to create their own narratives. I don't think that should stop the excavation, but spotting simplifications is something that I appreciate people like this group for!
Bookmarked for watching, hopefully sometime this week.
Ouroboros has been used in so many mythologies I'm not sure it's fair to use it to describe this phenomenon, or to compare it, to, um, the other :)
This kind of thing has happened so many times, though, in so many iterations. I really think it's part of something deeper, wrapped up with a willingness to dehumanize an "other" in order to make simple, reactive narratives easily swallowable. While some will try to excavate fuller history in good faith, others will try to use that excavation to create their own narratives. I don't think that should stop the excavation, but spotting simplifications is something that I appreciate people like this group for!