While science seeks to discredit, or demythify all mythology, we still seem to live our life by our myths, and their metaphoric logics. We each have a life narrative of our life, our family, our work, our community, and our world. Together, these stories constitute our personal myth. There is scientific, but also narrative knowing. This does not mean that science is beyond narrative logos.
Myths create, maintain, and legitimate past, present, or future actions and consequences.
Myths maintain and conceal political interests and value systems 3. Myths help explain and create cause and effect relationships. Myths rationalize the complexity and turbulence of activities and events to allow predictable action taking. Demythifying, by substituting the cannons of behavioral science for mythological constructions. Myth exchange, by allowing systems actors to bracket their own ways of knowing, in order to see the world as others are seeing it, and being able to translate one into the other.