The Power of Myth Condition:Well Read and her strange and endearing

and her strange and endearing friends

adopt a fatalistic attitude

but by the morning it is one passenger fewer

Eleanor Wong

For this question and other ones like it have been the stuff of philosophical rumination from Plato to Popper

The Power of Myth Condition:Well Read and her strange and endearingThe Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the spheres." With Bill Moyers, one of America's most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin