OneByOne & Albert
Hey Albert, I’ve been thinking about why the Atlantis myth keeps sticking around even when there’s almost no evidence. Maybe we can map out the cultural logic behind it.
Sure thing—though I’ll admit the whole Atlantis thing feels like a paradox wrapped in a myth, and I’m already drifting toward the idea that it’s less about a lost city and more about our craving for a grand narrative that explains why humanity seems to forget its own mistakes. Think about how each culture that spotlights Atlantis is, in a way, projecting its own fears and hopes: the Greeks with their fleeting glory, the Romans with their hubris, the Enlightenment with its rational skepticism. The “absence of evidence” becomes a kind of cultural void that invites speculation, and that’s the real hook. It’s almost as if the story survives because it fills a psychological space, not because of actual ruins. If we map that, we’ll see that the myth’s persistence is less about historical truth and more about the human pattern of creating a moral caution wrapped in epic imagery. So, what do you say—ready to dig through the layers?