Love it.. though I doubt some of the mythas are otre than standard narratives.. not so deeply rooted and internalized as an styructural myth..

But taken taken together , your 5 myths do give a picture of a gerenral narrative that ina certain sense could be structural... let's say that each one of them is not really deeply beleived or held my most american.. but a geenral flavour ..a  general idea behind these narratives are indeed held...

So I really love it..

Ragarding the reasons aobut why they exist but no other narratives appear or why they are like silenced.. or putting the question in other words, why USA is so far to the right on economic issues and the "foreign" european or latin american narrative does not appear. this question is not answred byt he mere presence of the myths..at least I am not completely satisfied with the answer.

So their general myth-flavour is there...but I do nto see it as structural.. so it expalins the present.. but I do not think it explains the lack of change, at least in the coasts... for example San Francisco is more or less like Europe , even to left, of Europe in economic redistribution..and they also have those 5 general myths-narratives.. they know them.. and they do not quite believe it but also beleive in them softl, yadn still they changed and adopted others ...

so... why not the change iN New York iN california, Oregon,....??? Why only San Francisco and Vermont?

Great diary

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude