Language facilitates idea sharing. Clearly that’s useful for progress. What’s less clear is the mechanism in which mythology acts on progress. Especially when w

Language facilitates idea sharing. Clearly that’s useful for progress. What’s less clear is the mechanism in which mythology acts on progress. Especially when we have counter examples where mythology explicitly hindered progress, e.g. the resistance to the ideas Copernicus by the church. Yes we have mythology and yes we have progress. But that doesn’t mean mythology enables progress.