"America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long."

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Jungians such as Joseph Campbell have generalised such journeys into a set of archetypal events and images. Though they can be useful in criticism, I mistrust them as fatally reductive. “Ah, the Night Sea Voyage!” we cry, feeling that we have understood something important — but we’ve merely recognised it. Until we are actually on that voyage, we have understood nothing.

— Ursula K. Le Guin