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Podcast: The Almighty Ohm
Episode: The Death of Myth & The Crisis of Identity: Why Modern Images Leave Us Hungry
Description: Why We’re Starving for Myth: Identity, Meaning, and the Images That Fail UsIn this episode, we dive into why our age is drowning in identity — yet starving for myth.Drawing on Charlie Chaplin’s warning that images alone are not enough, Werner Herzog’s desperate search for adequate images, and Nietzsche’s insight that we ourselves are the creators of meaning, we explore why modern life feels so hollow.We’ll look at how myth was once a polymod...