I was thinking again today, as I sometimes do, about mythologizing and mythbusting, and how it relates to the formation and deconstruction of group identity. I know some people from the Upland South, especially from the state of West Virginia, Appalachian coal country at large, or various leftist communities, who say that the origin ofContinue reading “Fìrinn a’ chuirp, agus fìrinn na h-inntinn (The truth of the body, and the truth of the mind)”