Culturally, the loss of myth has been devastating for our culture, and for youth especially. It has enslaved them to social media. And their parents and their grandparents very quickly follow them. It stifles conversation, and the example of civilised, informed, respectful exchanges is pretty rare to find in the news today among our leaders. We’ve been taken over by algorithms in social media. (…) The problem is that it’s a force that has been generated that makes immense amount of money, which doesn’t just influence us, it actually shapes us. So what’s the cure for that? for this loss of contemplative wisdom, and for the loss of the common language, the stories? We can’t live without myths, so we invent myths, Star Trek, Harry Potter, Star Wars. They give us something to work with. And Lord of the Rings. Okay, these are minor myths, something to work with, but dominated by consumerism and commercialism. There’s no great myth about death in our modern culture, I don’t think, no tragedy. You can’t create a tragedy, many people would say, without the ‘god’ question being in the conversation, even just as a question. We are in a critical, serious situation.
The loss of myth
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