Campbell is rejected by actual anthropologists and folklorists, and his work is fundamentally reduces the imagination of all human culture to prioritize White Euro narratives, but go off I guess.
There’s a big difference between “George Lucas was influenced by the theory of amateur midcentury folklorist/anthropologist when writing Star Wars & thus shapes contemporary SW narrative expectations” & “Joseph Campbell was right & should be applied liberally everywhere”
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