Living Myth

This episode of Living Myth begins with the idea that the old terminology of 100-year storms and 1000-year storms makes little sense, since events of that magnitude now happen so often. It becomes difficult to deny that we now live in a world that is more unpredictable, more chaotic, and sadly, more dangerous. As the storms occurring in nature grow greater and move faster, a parallel intensification of cultural conflicts and political storms have also been growing greater and changing with remarkable speed. By now, the two areas of increasing turbulence can be seen to overlap in ways that add more chaos and more unnecessary suffering to those who are caught in the path of the storms.   At the same time that many communities struggle with life-altering losses and remain without water and basic services, the so called “online community” has become inundated with a storm of its own making. The disinformation, lies and conspiracy theories that have become a maelstrom in the political realm, have now been injected