What is mythic fiction, and how can we write it? Earlier this month, I shared a post about how to write mythic fiction, in which I discussed the difference between adapting inherited myths (i.e., just retelling the old symbolic stories over and over in “new” ways) versus creating our own myths. My suggestion was that […]

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2,059 words The recent South by Southwest Film Festival saw the debut of a documentary which has left the world of cryptozoology in shambles. Capturing Bigfoot has shown that the world’s most famous footage of Sasquatch, the Patterson-Gimlin Film (PGF), was a hoax.1 The now debunked video was first presented to the world in 1967. […]

6,157 words Max West writes at Logical Meme, on X at @Logicalmeme, and is the author of Normism: The Philosophy of Norm Macdonald (2021). In this essay, I argue that the movie Weapons (2025) is a latent critique of radical transgender ideology, particularly its barbaric application to children and its associated violence (e.g., Trantifa, trans-related […]