Question

After reading Sheldon Wolin’s "Myth in the Making," consider other political "myths in the making" and describe one. Wolin describes a "myth" that is based on the US’s role as a superpower and that is enabled by a media-driven, symbolic system. Explain another myth and how its message is maintained.

Answer 1

Political myths consist of impartial conceptions, conjectures, expectations, idealizations, demonetization, prejudices, value judgments, and so on. However, political myth, unlike other myths, is subject to being contested, verified, criticized and questioned by History, Sociology, Political Science, Legal Sciences, Economics, etc. In this case, political myths refer to forms of government or rulers. With that, we have political myths about monarchies, democracies, republics, oligarchies, anarchists, dictatorships. We have political myths about kings, presidents, dictators, chiefs, governors, leaders in general