Monomyth, science, truth, RW

From: Benedict Adamson <ben_at_cd.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:51:22 +0000

...
> The Monomyth is an attempt at defining the Truth of
> Glorantha and is thus useful even if it is not 100% accurate.
...
"The Monomyth is Science"; it's the
> truth of the world to the extent that an objective observer can determine
> them as opposed to the what each group's myths say.
>
> > > After all, we have a Monomyth on Earth; we call it Science.
> >
> > English would be a better analogy, methinks.
> >

...

In the real world postmodernism is
unture: our culture/language/etc. does NOT define reality. Anyone who thinks gravity is a mere cultural convention should try defying that convention when stepping off a cliff. In the RW, science works. It is not a mere `narative', that some people just happen to believe, it is highly constrained by the actual universe around us.

What makes Glorantha interesting, surely, is that it is NOT the real world. An idea that has taken off is that, in Glorantha, `postmodernism' IS true. That is, people in Glorantha merely thinking that Glorantha has certain characteristics MAKES it have those characteristics, even if other people in Glorantha SIMULTANEOUSLY perceive Glorantha differently.

So, in Glorantha, trying to construct a monomyth (that is, being a scientist) is futile, because there is is no single `objective reality' to constrain any theories.

(Yep, postmodernists are living in a fantasy world :-)

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