Memory does not preserve events intact. It compresses them into portable shapes: news, stories, histories, legends and myths. This essay proposes Mythoscopy as a habit of looking, then applies it to epic geography, technology, power, othering and the uncomfortable humanity that survives beneath moral simplification.

The human brain dreams of solving everything with data, models and jargon, while economists reduce the world to incentives, trade-offs and opportunity costs. A deliberately irreverent introduction to economic thinking, with beer included, for readers who prefer their abstractions dragged firmly down to street level.