[Source](https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/the-odyssey-nolan-s-toxic-assault-on-western-civilization/) > Christopher Nolan’s audacity to gut one of the greatest stories ever told of its themes, meaning, and essence is an unforgivable sin that can only have been perpetrated by Hades or Hollywood. > The only reason Nolan’s Odyssey is winning praise at the box office is that we stopped teaching the Classics a hundred years ago, and with it, education itself. > Homer’s most important lessons do not even make the screen. What he replaces them with is an assault on the heroic and divine world of the poem, amplifying everything in modern society that is weak, therapeutic, and self-loathing.