Convenient Myths Quotes

“As the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre suggests, the story in which I believe myself to be a character is also the story in which I come to understand my nature and my destiny.1 My sense of who I am, where I should be heading, and what I should do next—I “own” all these in the context of what I believe to be true about the world, its history and destiny, the nature of divinity and humanity, and the good society. It is all very much bound up with the story in which I believe I find myself.”
― Iain W. Provan, Convenient Myths: The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World that Never Was

“We are committed to the past as we need and want it to be; we are no longer interested in the past as it was.”
― Iain W. Provan, Convenient Myths: The Axial Age, Dark Green Religion, and the World that Never Was