Odo Marquard, In Praise of Polytheism > a monomyth of this sort is the most successful myth of the modern world: the myth of the inexorable progress of world history toward freedom, in the form of the philosophy of history based on the idea of revolutionary emancipation. That—Lévi-Strauss calls it the "myth of the French Revolution"—is a monomyth. Contrary to historicist principles, it suffers no stories beside this one emancipatory world history. Here it becomes apparent that, although one cannot abolish myths, or stories, it is possible, by establishing a monopolistic myth, to centralize and thus depluralize them. Odo Marquard, In Praise of Polytheism > Histories and novels are the— enlightened—polymyths of the modern world. [SSC whether everything a religion](https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/25/is-everything-a-religion/)