What Stories Do
Stories give experience meaning — they transmit values, model attention, and train empathy.
Philosophy
The foundations: what stories do, why they matter, and how restoration occurs — a framework for meaning, erosion, and renewal.
A Meaning-Machine
This section treats storytelling as a technology of attention: how experience becomes structured, values become legible, and a culture learns what to admire, fear, and protect.
Introduction
Stories are not decoration. They are compressed models of life: they train perception, establish moral stakes, and give people a vocabulary for what they’re experiencing. When stories go shallow, it’s rarely just “bad writing.” It’s often a symptom of deeper confusion about meaning.
Argument
Mythogin’s philosophy lens is simple: narratives shape consciousness by shaping attention. When a society loses living myth, experience fragments — people lose shared bearings, moral depth collapses, and culture starts using entertainment as sedation or status display.
How to Read This Section
This section is organized as three pillars. Meaning explains what stories do. Erosion explains what breaks when myth collapses. Restoration explains what resonant stories rebuild — depth, empathy, and perspective.
Philosophy Pillars
The three claims behind Mythogin: what stories do, why they matter, and what actually makes stories resonate.
Why Stories Matter
When myth erodes, culture loses its meaning-machine — cooperation collapses into spectacle and control.
What Resonates in Stories
Epics challenge assumptions and restore depth — identification, empathy, perspective, and new values.