truth becomes something proved by argument. The importance of another, ultimately more powerful, revealer of truth, metaphor, is forgotten; and metaphor, in another clever inversion, comes even to be a lie, though perhaps a pretty one. So the statements of truth contained in myth become discounted as ‘fictions’, that is to say untruths or lies – since, to the left hemisphere, metaphor is no more than this.
The processs of lost faith in the meaning of narrative. I.e. The metaphorical replaced by the analytical.
note also its limits and the confusion that arises from the greater fidelity of form yet abstraction of meaning
copare to comics and the great triangle
