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- W2037570109 abstract "This is a type of fairy tale, a very modern one to be sure, which engages with a point of view laid out by Walter Benjamin fifty years ago concerning the function of the fairy tale in combating the forces of mythology. In his essay on 'The Storyteller', Benjamin says that the fairy tale tells us of the earliest arrangements that mankind made to shake off the nightmare which myth had placed upon its chest. In the figure of the fool, the tale shows us how mankind can act dumb before the myth, and the wisest thing it teaches is to meet the forces of the mythical world with courage, high spirits, and cunning the characteristics, by and large, that Benjamin singled out as making up the hero of a Brecht play.' Think of Mother Courage and of Galy Gay, let alone of the Good Soldier Schweik of whom Brecht was so fond. Of course, these are hardly heroes in either the classical or the modern sense, but then maybe our sense of 'tragedy' with which the hero is so intertwined gives us too mythic a sense of evil which it is nowadays the task of the ordinary person the Brechtian 'hero' to suffer as an everyday occurrence. The hero I want to tell you about is an Australian man, old, rather deaf and with poor eyesight, who came from the bush and served as a horseman and then in the trenches with the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, the ANZACS, in WW 1. The tale he tells is worth retelling, I think, because of what it may teach us about ways to deflate the heroism that is used by the state to invigorate if not invent traditions that make for a culture of nationalism a culture, of course, that once set, becomes a powerful tool in the arsenal of social control, used not only by the state but also one which we non-heroes practice daily over ourselves too. And here it needs emphasizing how Australian nationalism is fatefully invested in the mythology of war, notably the sacrifice and defeat of the Gallipoli campaign in the Middle East in World War 1. In this society where there exists little by the way of God, virtually no enlivening of private or public life by ritual, no spirits of fairies or hobgoblins, no Day of" @default.
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- W2037570109 title "An Australian Hero" @default.
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