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Myth Replacement
03 November 2004Greg Grieve, a Fellow at NYU's Center for Religion and Media, comments: "[a colleague] and I have been talking about 'moral values' all morning. And it seems to us that it is working as an empty signifier, similar to Barthes' notion of 'myth,' onto which people are projecting their conceptions. As Barthes writes in 'Myth Today': 'The signifier presents itself in an ambiguous way: it is at the same time meaning and form, full on one side and empty on the other.' (117) As the Russian saying goes: 'A sacred space is never empty.' There seems to be a need for two steps: (1) to debunk the Myth of moral values, and then (2) to craft a new 'myth' that democrats can control for progressive ends."
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