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Jane Borden: Cults and The American Monomyth
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The only commonality among Germans who helped Jewish people during WWII was that they had known a Jewish person before.
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A funny, lucid case for why American culture keeps reaching for the savior story.
Jane Borden makes a sharp, funny case for why doomsday thinking feels built into American culture. The discussion traces that habit from Puritan obsessions with Revelation to the American monomyth, where an outsider arrives to purge evil and set things right.
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If you want a sharp take on why Americans keep waiting for a fixer, start here.
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