Political discourse dissolves complexity into myth and suppresses causal understanding

Evidence

Myths, I argue, are not mere lies, but complex, imaginative narratives allowing people to respond to uncertainty much more effectively than is often acknowledged. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 40 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Decontextualized polemic becomes misread as straightforward history; Language itself is a political battlefield when discourse is indoctrinated — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 713; The Deep State term stretched to explain away any inconvenient event — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 934 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Political myths are adaptive responses to uncertainty, not lies #complicates (0.71) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 40