An operative myth is not a lie waiting to be debunked. It is a story doing structural work — load-bearing, budgeted, enforced. Debunking rarely stops one, because belief was never the point; participation is. The Index catalogs these fictions the way a field station catalogs weather: not to end the rain, but to know what is falling on us.
The inventory itself is kept in the Ledger. Around it, the working instruments — decks, engines, catalogs, and site studies — each a different way of getting a specimen to hold still long enough to be described.
THE MYTH LEDGER
The running inventory itself: individual named myths, cataloged and cross-referenced across every Myth Index project. Each entry records what the fiction produces and what it costs. Start here.
HOLLYWOOD TAROT GRIMOIRE
A symbolic deck for reading the myth machinery of Hollywood: archetypes, genres, spells, and production rituals.
CAPITALIST MYTHS
A working index of the stories that make capitalism feel natural, inevitable, and self-confirming.
FOUNDER MYTHS
A catalog of startup and founder narratives: origin stories, hero myths, disruption scripts, and venture folklore.
MARX UNDERSTANDS
A systemic accountability engine. Input a personal experience. Receive a structural translation — the institutional agents and forces that produced it.
KALAMAZOO
Home ground. The city where the work is made, indexed as a production site — because the machinery is easiest to study where you live inside it.
THE SINS OF KALAMAZOO
Carl Sandburg's 1920 poem rebuilt as a slow immersive reverie — smokestacks, fog, the bronze hounds on the public square. A city's self-mythology, read at walking speed.
THE FRIABLE COMPACT II
An interactive reckoning with the Upjohn pharmaceutical legacy: the 1886 friable pill, Panalba, Halcion, and the side effect that became Minoxidil. The river keeps the receipts.