“Wow this person is a genius for pointing out how we are doing society incorrectly. How could anyone have guessed at this over and over again for centuries? We should teach this to our children in school and then absolutely savage them as adults for believing it.”
People need to stop saying this shit. When Joseph Campbell wrote Hero with a Thousand Faces, it was from his limited point of view and selectively chose or changed details on the subjects he picked. It wasn’t true then, and it’s even less true now.