Domoslawski defers to a former New York Times correspondent who knew Kapuscinski to sum up such
mythomania: "As the years went by, he became a member of the intelligentsia.
This is so obviously a logical fallacy that I can only assume that Faye and the neopagans are engaging in a deliberate act of
mythomania. Of course, numerous historians have shown that egalitarianism is, at least in part, a secularized version of the Christian equality of souls, but the assumption made by egalitarians of every stripe--that history is a progressive human construct moving toward a universal egalitarian state of social perfection--is a blatant (and heretical) falsification of orthodox Christian doctrine.
The scene summarizes itself the true nature of the assailed tyrant: cynicism and
mythomania. He even confessed that after him there would nothing but anarchy.
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Oliver rather pessimistically suggests that the "
mythomania" surrounding Hemingway, who was "his own first mythmaker," is so pervasive that readers must either ignore it or "admit that Hemingway is a writer for whom what he wrote is secondary to who he was" (24-25).
Perhaps it is not unlike the common attitude of Canadians towards Americans in most unequal cultural exchanges between our two countries, in that we have seen the "
mythomania and self-inflation" so prevalent to the south of us and have been repelled by it, using satire as our answer to myth.
He presents an astonishing phenomenon of collective
mythomania. Some of his prophets, Nampas, Nakomaha, among others, are pathological cases'.