Have you noticed that more and more big cinema, television and literature are being captured by fantasy, where heroes soar in the clouds, wield dragons, magic wands and, with a wave of thought, can turn into superbeings? How popular have vampires, werewolves and other evil spirits become, whose faces have become much more attractive and not as unambiguous as before?
Of course, we can say that there is a serious rollback back to the past, to mythological thinking. We can talk about how everything develops in a spiral, but the question is: where does this spiral lead and what do these changes threaten us (and our psyche) with?
Simplification and explanation of natural phenomena with the help of myths are part of the life of any ancient community. Yes, but why in our age of the triumph of science has mythology taken such a sharp turn?
I think there are several reasons here, although they are all interconnected.
Yes, we have accumulated a huge amount of knowledge about the nature of things, but we have never really learned how to manage it all. However, this does not cancel man’s desire to command everything he can, otherwise we would not have won the evolutionary process.
Please note that in most new myths (let’s cram everything into this concept at once) there can be seen a significant departure from unambiguous archetypes. A beautiful princess can be a monster at the same time, a vampire can be a kind guy, and a fire…