Why are there so few stories about our trajectory meaningfully changing course for the better? We seem only to be able to imagine the continuation of this system, its catastrophic decline, or alternate worlds inhabited by elves and dragons. Wouldn't the occasional story about someone thwarting global annihilation, or otherwise exercising any meaningful agency in the face of collapse, be more interesting than yet another depiction of someone trudging through a post-apocalyptic wasteland? In this episode, Steph, Joan, Temper, Chad, and Arnold talk about the mythologies that have shaped humanity, justified social orders, and animated revolutions—and ask what features a mythology would possess that elicited meaningful responsiveness to the crises we face.