Richard Slotkin > Quotes

“Although scientific method is different from mythology -- its assertions are conditional, self-limited, and subject to disproof —- "science" as a concept may be used in an ideological and a mythological way, evasive of questions and disproofs.”
― Richard Slotkin, The Fatal Environment

“The return of the last American combat forces from Vietnam in 1973 marked the sudden end of the pre-eminence of the Western among the genres of mythic discourse.”
― Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America