You don’t need to think of myths as allegorical. But this is arguably how they work, and what they are good for.
Allegories are about telling stories with certain kinds of meaning. Imbuing or finding meaning does not have much of anything to do with evaluations of true or false. This is what happens when people mistake myths for history. Are the stories of Gulliver “true”? Or those of Darth Vader? It is not an Aristotelian dualistic process, except that you can know that either find them meaningful, or you don’t. Condemning the media instead of the illiterate is not likely to prove educational.
