Some Thoughts After Listening to Mr. Joseph Campbell's "The Eastern Way" and "The Power of Myth"

Old World/Myths: Muddled. Great acumen and cruel wrong-headedness at completely unpredictable intervals.
New World - Old Myths + New World Advancements (clarifications/technologies, i.e., how Black Plague is spread/being able to switch on a light): no less muddled.
New World + Reintegration of Old Myths + New World Advancements=maybe slightly less muddled, but I don’t know, not by much.
Is there any quantifiable way to gauge the average amount of confusion per human being in any particular place and or era? Probably not. That would be interesting experiment.
I sort of wish I could know what creation myth I might have kicked out if I had been alone on Easter Island for the first twenty years of my life, but then again, maybe I don’t.
Minus my fixation with the Luke Skywalker/Yoda training scenes in the paperback version of The Return of the Jedi as a fitness-obsessed twelve year old girl (ah, that summer I was constantly in a handstand), I’m just not that into “Star Wars.” Found references a bit oh quotidian? dull? especially after Hindu, Scandinavian myths.
Better, more god-esque sounding name for god than Odin? Personally, I don’t think so.
I wish Kurosawa had made a movie about bison, pre-European invasion. And the Native Americans who hunted them. Maybe it’s all that long grass waving hypnotically in “Seven Samurai”—have you ever seen anything more beautiful? Plus that improbable hunched outline of the bison—well, I think if anyone could have done it, it is him.
How did I manage to entirely miss the story of the Buddha in my mad love affair and bad breakup with Zen Buddhism? Maybe because I was so scrupulously avoiding the movie with Keanu Reeves. Geezits. Anyway, pretty much explains everything.
I wonder if Joseph Campbell ever read Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Mr. Fortune’s Maggot (1927). About a missionary adjusting to hypocrisy of being missionary, dry as a martini, very funny. Well, creepy, but funny.
(Please note: this listening was undertaken while drawing a comix of a little grey fox and may have influenced the author’s opinions)