We need myths to understand the reality of people. “Art is a lie that makes us realise truth,” Pablo Picasso said famously. Every myth is an art. That is, myth is not truth, but it helps us understand truths. Because ‘the people’ is a mythical category, though historical as well. People are a mythical category because they represent a living community with a soul, a shared memory, and a common destiny – something deeper than what on...