#DearSurkov / #DearPutin / Kremlin
I don't know why Surkov stopped working with Putin, why Putin sidelined Surkov. I do know that Surkov has insight into the #MonoMyth and seems to have "cracked the monomyth" story pattern without using or referencing James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
I suspect that Surkov had one goal in mind, what methods of getting people to pay attention worked best. How to get groups to behave when directed, and came into the pattern of the monomyth. It isn't as if Hollywood
never heard of the MonoMyth. Luke Skywalker was put right on the cover of reprints of Joseph Campbell's 1949 book "Hero with a Thousand Faces". But Surkov had an iterative approach of interacting with the domestic population, people in groups, of Russia and #AlmostZero book frames public relations on a scale of experience and puzzle-pieces.
I think Surkov discovered the monomyth on his own. Through experience directing people and seeing the results. But eventually one starts to see what
