On Myth

Life is full of moral imperatives that defy our reason and our simplistic systems of punishment and reward and our theoretical models of vale-preferences...But myth assures mankind that certain values transcend reason to give human existence meaning within an unchanging frame of reference, while ensuring unity among the members of the community concerning these values. This unity of values is the hallmark of culture. Without this unity regarding the imponderables, civilized actions become impossible, and man is cast upon the shabby mythology of his own random dream-wrolds and is at the mercy of state and natural religions.

~David Hicks, Norms&Nobility