The founding myths of the world order are no longer meaningful or relevant

[ionelv]

Denis wrote: “We are going through a time when the founding myths of the world order are no longer meaningful or relevant to the people. The constitution is just one diety among a pantheon of foundation myth deities which include: WW2 as existential good vs bad, individualism, rationalism, and the idea of economy itself. These gods have fewer believers than before.”

The foundation myths are as always just another short cycle on the wheel of history not unlike the Greek Titans: not the first nor the last. On the current (Western) myths themselves, the central one, [Abrahamic] God, has been evaporating very slowly since Enlightenment and Nietzsche even put it starkly in writing over 100 years ago, yet YHWH (or its many variations) is stubborn and it mutates and spreads as fast as any prophylactics are thrown at it (i.e. 84% of 2010 world population is religious).

The sad part is that most if not all people have a godsupernatural-shaped hole in their heart that is always yearning to be filled. For most people, the need is usually fulfilled with make-believe stuff, from the most primitive (e.g. animism, cargo cultism or sadly some other random -ism) to the most complex (e.g. major religions with their many colourful feathers, mesmerizing song and dance and their crafty and finely polished long-con sells around guilt and The Great Leveller). For few, the need is filled by taking down as many curtains as possible and looking behind them, even at the risk of ultimately finding nothing or a disappointing something at the root of it all (e.g. the Big Bang(s), Maya/grand simulation, a lab tech who forgot about one of his mail-order kit experiments).

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