RWNJs, sensing the power draining from their myths, are desperately trying to plug the holes with simulacra of the religious figures and power events they pretend to believe.
their attempts fail because, like tfg, they don't actually read, so their ideas have no roots, no power of imagination.
they have to keep inventing more and more bizarre tales that have no real living significance, to try to keep people afraid and angry, so they won't realize how empty their lives have become.
Hitler used the power of myth, realizing it is a powerful instrument of social authority and coercion.
trump is trying to leverage that now, but his simulacra are beyond pathetic. today's MAGANATZI moves are truly risible.
Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator dejà vue.
metaphor and reason.
"The sense in Christianity of a faith beyond reason, which must continue to affirm even after reason gives up,
is closely connected with the linguistic fact that many of the central doctrines of traditional Christianity can be grammatically expressed only in the form of metaphor.
When these doctrines are rationalized, the metaphor is translated into metonymic language and "explained."
But there is a strong smell of intellectual mortality about such explanations."
"The basis of the problem is the simultaneous sense of both the social relevance and the inner integrity of all the elements of human culture.
Without the integrity, we go around the cycle again, back to a subordination of everything creative and scholarly to the expediencies and superstitions of authority.
So atavistic a social regression, in the present stage of technological development, might well wipe the human race off the planet."
1981 published. Frye's prophecy now coming to pass.