https://youtu.be/Vp8TcqYHW5s?t=1271
11 year old consumer programming from Mr. Beast.
1988 Power Of Myth, filmed by George Lucas at Skywalker Ranch for Star Wars / Hollywood audience education:
BILL MOYERS: Does our society?
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: It did have. It had the Christ. And then America had men like Washington and Jefferson and, later, men like Daniel Boone. But life today is so complex, and it is changing so fast, that there is no time for anything to constellate itself before it’s thrown over again.
MOYERS: We seem to worship celebrities today, not heroes.
CAMPBELL: Yes, and that’s too bad. A questionnaire was once sent around one of the high schools in Brooklyn which asked, “What would you like to be?” Two thirds of the students responded, “A celebrity.” They had no notion of having to give of themselves in order to achieve something.
MOYERS: Just to be known.
CAMPBELL: Just to be known, to have fame—name and fame. It’s too bad.
MOYERS: But does a society need heroes?
CAMPBELL: Yes, I think so.
MOYERS: Why?
CAMPBELL: Because it has to have constellating images to pull together all these tendencies to separation, to pull them together into some intention.
MOYERS: To follow some path.
CAMPBELL: I think so. The nation has to have an intention somehow to operate as a single power.
MOYERS: What did you think of the outpouring over John Lennon’s death? Was he a hero?
CAMPBELL: Oh, he definitely was a hero.
You have to assert that we are not living in fiction.