WAS JOSEPH CAMPBELL BASED?

Honestly I'm surprised he had anti-semitic or fascist leanings but at the same time it makes perfect sense.

Campbell had a deep understanding of many religious and philosophical traditions. Yet he never preached the "love everybody" meme or modern ecumenicalism.

Instead he talked about the hero's journey. How we are all the hero of our own journey, and how we must overcome obstacles in our lives and make our own meaning. Take chances, go against the grain when necessary and go with the flow when it suits you.

I think I will take this time to shill for non-degenerate music that some think is degenerate.

Jerry Garcia, and The Grateful Dead were huge huge huge fans of Joseph Campbell. Keep in mind the parking lots of their shows were and are veritable bazaars brimming with capitalistic entrepreneurship. Of course, there are plenty of degenerates in the scene, but if you have ears to hear, you'll get the non degenerate message.

pp. 96-100 of Occidental Mythology are basically a redpill on Jews not caring about their own religion, going back as far as the time immediately preceding the Babylonian exile. So basically, between Moses and Josiah, there simply wasn't anyone observing the Law. Ergo, the Talmud is not derived form the Mosaic legal tradition, if I'm reading Campbell correctly.
I can see why this would offend me if I were a Jew. Of course, this sort of thing happens whenever bad goyim read the OT. But Campbell was a secular intellectual.

jerry garcia was COINTELPRO look up laurel canyon, the guy was tied into some weird ass covert gov shit, he had CIA connections. michael aquilano type creeper shit

Sauce?

thanks for this, OP

The Dead were in San Francisco, Laurel Canyon was in Los Angeles.

Laurel Canyon was The Doors (Jim Morrison), Frank Zappa, Joni Mitchell, David Crosby, and others.

All of the above made political statements through their music and in interviews.

The Dead were different, they never explicitly said anything political in their songs. And never in interviews. The only political activism they did was "save the rainforest" type stuff in the 80s.

Jerry even said he specifically avoided saying political things because he didn't want to influence any people just in case he turned out to be wrong.

I think he was probably left of center, but I don't think he was an active subversive agent. After the 60s and 70s a large contingent of deadheads were lawyers, doctors, business owners and various others who successfully benefited from the American way of life and upward mobility.

I don't mean to derail the thread, and obviously the dead were involved in LSD distribution, but beyond that I don't think they were trying to push any particular political agenda.

Even when the dead played at Columbia during the protests…they thought all the protesters were a bunch of dorks. The protesters were very serious and making a political statement but the dead thought the whole thing was funny as fuck and viewed it moreso as a prank than a political statement. They were kind of upset that the young radicals were so uptight they wouldn't dance or anything.

If anything a lot of people think the Dead were a right-wing conspiracy of sorts. Get the kids to take drugs and dance and listen to music instead of protesting vietnam or fighting against cops.

and of course there's the oft debated lyric from US Blues

"I'm Uncle Sam, that's who I am, been hiding out, in a rock n roll band!"

But the song is very nationalistic and is about the good and the bad of government. Wave that flag, wave it wide, and high!

tried to hero with 1000 faces a while back, dunno what it was but found it fucking impossible to read. it's not like I don't read books either, but mayb i am retarded after all

I guess my opinion is that the dead may have been tangentially related to these cointelpro movements, and may have even been part of it at various times, but I don't think they were fully invested.

Unlike the doors, or joni mitchell or even zappa, the dead never attained any kind of mainstream success. There's people today who still have never heard of them. They got popular like 23 years after they formed as a band lol.

I just see it as a microcosm of society. Be as degenerate as you want if you aren't hurting anyone, or rise above it and watch the pussy and kind/good people flock to you.

I only bring all of this up because the dead were really huge fans of Campbell. And I think if they were ultimately covert agents bent on destroying US culture that they would not idolize a man like that.

If anything they were supported by a faction of the CIA which was against the more subversive elements. I think Timothy Leary may have been an example of the more subversive elements whereas the Dead and Merry Pranksters/Ken Kesey people were more so an attempt at subversion that rose above it and did not go along with the plan.

I think that's why the red white and blue and the american flag features so prominently in that particular scene. A way to say we're going to exercise our freedom and be good people and fuck you we are American and that is our identity.

Crimson White and Indigo

Do you think Jerry would browse Holla Forums?

New York Times: "Joseph Campbell Mixed Bigotry and Inspiration; His Anti-Semetism" by Arnold Krupat

nytimes.com/1989/12/02/opinion/l-joseph-campbell-mixed-bigotry-and-inspiration-his-anti-semetism-660789.html

- To the Editor: I am deeply grateful to Brendan Gill for detailing in public what many of us at Sarah Lawrence College privately knew all along about Joseph Campbell. Because Campbell has been proposed as a sage for our times, it is particularly important for those of us who have a different estimate of the man and his work to speak up.

Time to shut this goy down.

- Mr. Gill's account of Campbell's scholarship, his politics and his views seems to me accurate. I offer a single anecdote from my experience by way of verifying his anti-Semitism.

- I joined the literature faculty at Sarah Lawrence in 1968. With other younger faculty members, I was strongly opposed to the war in Vietnam, and I considered myself - as I do today - to be on the left. Campbell tended to keep his distance from this group, whose values he more or less correctly perceived - and disliked.

- It was my good or ill fortune, however, to find that Campbell was disposed to be friendly to me. One reason for this was that I had, in 1967, completed a doctoral dissertation that, he had been told, made substantial use (I am embarrassed to confess it) of his book The Hero With a Thousand Faces. But I think Campbell was also disposed to be friendly to me because, in those days, I usually wore a coat and tie to teach, and this was not the costume he associated with leftists and war protesters; and because, when we happened to meet at some faculty function, I usually had a drink in my hand, and he had the notion that leftists and war protesters had sworn off alcohol for the relentless consumption of marijuana.

Disdain for degenerate leftists. Excellent.

- At one faculty function, in 1969 or '70, I found myself drinking with Campbell and another, older, equally right-wing teacher. At some point in the evening, Campbell, responding to a remark I can't recall, said something to the effect that he could always spot a Jew. I, a Jew, said, Oh? Whereupon Campbell went into a description of how the New York Athletic Club had ingeniously managed for years to keep Jews out. He went on and on, telling his story in the most charming and amiable fashion, without any self-consciousness about the views he was expressing and, indeed, without any overt animus - for all that he obviously relished the notion of keeping Jews out of anywhere any time, forever. As soon as I could, I said goodnight, and Campbell and I never had much to do with each other again.

Oy gevalt! Close one!