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Mythomania: Tales Of Our Times, From Apple To Isis NB STAT The fifth in the "Gallery"Despite our culture's proclaimed respect for scientific reason, we live in a society that is no less bedazzled and bedevilled by myth than those of our remote ancestors. Roland Barthes first examined the mythical resonances of consumer products in the 1950s. Far from being demystified, consumerism has since morphed into a universal religion, its compulsory ritual of shopping essential to our economic survival. Myth has also invaded the political