Akira The Don, Joseph Campbell - NOT Greatly Changed lyrics

The fourth function of a mythology then
Is to center and integrate
The individual in relation
To himself the microcosm
In relation to its society
We’ll call that the "mezzo-cosm, "
The in between cosm in relation to
The universe as he’s able to know it
And finally in relation to that
Ultimate mystery of which I spoke
In the beginning now let me say
A word about
The problem of integrating the individual

This is the thing that has been the same
This is the thing that has been the same
Societies have changed
But the problem of the individual
In his life course has not
Greatly changed

The human being is a very
Strange animal he matures
When he is about twenty
Years old he has been
Growing for twenty years
For most animals
That is the length of a lifetime
So here is a creature
Who has grown for twenty years in an
Attitude and in a position
Largely of dependency uncertain of himself
Turning to his parents
For help
Instruction protection
Approval and punishment
This creates a psychological structure
Of dependency
The individual is in an attitude
Of dependence on parental figures
Then we ask him
To become responsible
To assume responsibility
Grow up

This is the thing that has been the same
This is the thing that has been the same
Societies have changed
But the problem of the individual
In his life course has not
Greatly changed

This is the crisis
Of the transit from infancy
To adulthood from dependency
To responsibility
Something has to be done to make it happen
It won’t happen automatically as we now know
From the problem of psychoanalysis
A person who looks like an adult
But every time responsibility is
Thrown upon him
Turns around to see where mother or daddy is
Just hasn’t passed that threshold
A neurotic is a person
Who is having responses
Of dependency when there ought
To be responses of
Responsibility that’s all it is
So then he goes to a
Psychiatrist who tells him "Grow up"
That’s about all the problem is
But that is not so easy after you have
The business of a reflex stimulus
Response response takes place
The response of dependence
Dependence, dependence
And now suddenly it’s got to be
Responsibility

This is the thing that has been the same
This is the thing that has been the same
Societies have changed
But the problem of the individual
In his life course has not
Greatly changed

This is the thing that has been the same
This is the thing that has been the same
Societies have changed
But the problem of the individual
In his life course has not
Greatly changed