What New Myths Are Ahead?

Beowolf was written at a crossroads between ages. The characters in the poem straddle both pagan and christian values and struggle with their inconsistencies. It was a product of ages of dynamic oral storytelling translated into a medium that while more permanent, ceased to be as meaningful to later generations. Verbal lore could be adapted […]

The Omitted Internet

As I’ve been preening my blog here I notice it reflects a greater pattern I’ve observed on social networks.  The Internet just rarely gets the whole story.  Through omission, laziness, inconsistency, or distraction it is impossible for the Internet to present a complete picture.  We love to think that all these logs and data record […]