We Do Not Ever Escape From Myth
On Wendy Doniger O’Flaherty’s book ‘Other Peoples’ Myths’
3 min readJun 25, 2021
Plato distinguished the falsehoods of myth from the truth of history. Nonetheless, he acknowledged that some truths can only be expressed through story, which is why he proposed his own myth of the cave. We don’t really ever escape from myth.
