Blog Post #2
In Roland Barthes Mythologies he views mythology through the lense of it being a language. Through his essays he uses repetition to unmask the myths of each ideology - which i found to be incredibly profound.
In his “The Brain of Einstein” he writes about Einstein’s brain as a mythological object. The conditions of a myth demand euphoric security, and with that, it does not care if it is a contradiction. Einstein was a genius, he produced equations and reduced immense knowledge down to simple formulas. Being a math specialist one would think the product of his thought would solely be inventiveness, but through his mythology he produced magic. He viewed the universe as something that could be unlocked, and this fulfilled the sense of euphoric security. However, in the nature of contradiction, failure was imperative and Einstein died before he could find the key.
As I reflected on the message from this essay, I began to contemplate the notion of the universe having a code that could be cracked. I think part of what makes humanity magic is the complexity of not being able to grasp all the wonders of the universe. This desire for divinity manifests itself into organized groups, which fulfills the need for community and belonging.
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