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RE: DandD13: What's in your Myth Stack?
Forgive a newcomer to this conversation, but what does "DandD" stand for? I was expecting Dungeons and Dragons!
Myth stacking is an interesting way to think about the accumulation of knowledge in a culture. I think you could apply it to the sciences, too, as theories are built upon theories, and then suddenly we discover something at the root of things that's different from what we expected, and suddenly we've got to decide whether to knock the whole tower over or just shore it up with plaster and duct tape. And when whole careers are built on scientific assumptions, they can acquire the dedication of myth - people would rather die fighting to uphold what "used to be true" rather than looking at ne evidence.
D and D is Devoted and Disgruntled, an Open Space for anyone interested in theatre and the performing arts. There's one big one every year in January and then several smaller "satellites" throughout the year.
That's an interesting take. Though of course the big difference is that the scientific method has been developing in the open only over the last few hundred years whereas, thanks to science, we can tell that the roots of some of these stories are as old as humanity and had already had millennia of development before they were even written down :)
Good point. The roots of the older myths go very deep. Which is probably why it never ends well when devotees of science try to behave as if they don't exist at all.