Mythos

Go Anywhere Literary Magazine

When we look at the world around us today, we see a world in flux. Technology is changing so quickly that it’s hard to keep up with its rapid pace. It can be wonderful. As a tool, it can be a means for connection and inspiration. It enables doctors to save lives and helps detectives solve cold cases. But like Janus, it has another face. Like most new technologies, the computer revolution has made its own way forward on a path of destruction. Unlike Janus, it looks forward, but it doesn’t look back.
In this technology shaped world, it can sometimes seem as though everything divides us. That there is little room for common ground or compromise. That there is no agreement even on what is true and what is not. We cannot even be sure of what is real and what is not. We live in an age of Mythos. The outside world is built of stories that idealize a past that never really existed and that predict a future that no one looks forward to. But, in our hearts, each of us has other stories. In the human heart is a mythos based on love and belonging, caring and loss, giving and gaining. We do not need tools to connect and inspire us. We only need each other.

–Jane Cowden,
Faculty Advisor

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