society needs enemies

any project, identity HAS to be antagonistic to something, and someone MUST experience being antagonized. This is not a state we can get away from. There is a constant struggle in society as to WHO should be the antagonized.

Its not an us/them kind of relationship. Its born out of the experience that other ideas about what is going on is reshaping the social possibility of my identity. Then I double down on my identity, and can only do this by presenting my idea, thus antagonizing someone else.

this is why mythology is important, the only way forward is to antagonize one selves, and we need to perceive internal tendencies and possibility as enemies of who we would like to be, not other people. Mythological language allows us to keep this enemy public while at the same time not treating it as other people, but rather internal tendencies.