The Others
This is related to Eli 23.2s Master's thesis (which I can't tell you about yet), but in thinking about it, I had an adjacent idea of my own.Everyone knows about "othering" by now. It's a classic tactic in politics (largely used by one party, at the present moment).
What I don't think people realize, though, is that there's a component of othering related to myth.
Othering is now being used to to separate people into humans and monsters. Non-white immigrants? Monsters. Transgender people? Monsters. It's not just that they're "others," they're not even human.
In other words, they have a mythic status.
Why would you turn other groups into monsters the level of myth? Well, who slays monsters in myths?
Heroes.
So if you can make a group of people into monsters, it makes "sense" that you'd need a hero to come in and save the humans.
That's some twisted, dark shit at work.
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