Story or Lie?

People are myth making creatures. What I mean by that is that we try oh so desperately to explain the unexplainable, as a way to make it seem less distant, perhaps even connected to us. Our ability to tell stories has served us well in the beginning of our development, but as we developed in our thinking, our story telling abilities also grew. We began to reject these stories as lies and began to make new stories to fill the void we have just created. Now for me the question becomes an obvious one; at what point does the story we cherish and embrace now become the lie that we ridicule and call backwards thinking?
In the Precarious Life, the issue of censorship and justifications we try to make towards the evils committed during wartime and other times of conflict. I see this as our myth making ability in full effect. Instead of embracing the world as is with all the evils we have created, we try to hide them from public view. We tell ourselves these stories of how it’s not as bad as it seems, or that our actions are justifiable and other types of stories that distract us from the truth that is sitting right in our faces. We deliberately try to pull the wool over our own eyes so we don’t have to see the mess we’ve created. But sadly to say, these myths cannot last. Just as we dismissed the myths from our barbaric times, so too will these myths dissolve. Soon our stories won’t be able to cover our actions, and when that happens those stories will be tossed aside and replaced like the Greek gods were.