Recently I have been writing about modern mythologies that we are generally unaware of, and the dangers they pose. We have a very hard time admitting to our collective selves that mythologies even exist in our modern time of science and technology. Why is this?
There are several aspects to this. First and perhaps most relevant is that mythologies only function when we are completely unaware of them, and what they are. Mythologies "stand in" as unassailable truths that are simply not questioned. It never occurs to us to even acknowledge they exist in and around us. We do not think of mythologies any more than we think of the air that we breathe...it's invisible.
Until it's not. Until toxic "air" begins killing and injuring people.
It's an interesting question whether ancient mythologies were as dangerous as modern mythologies. Perhaps they were. Mythology is so inextricably interwoven with fact it is not easily seen. It is probably a significant part of the reason wars happened, and continue to happen.
When mythology is revealed to be a dangerous fiction the collective we are incapable of seeing it. The reason for that is we all carry an unconscious program of immortality. Until we get old or are stricken with early disease we all feel as if we are going to live forever, an inextricable part of the unconscious mind.
Let's admit it, it's difficult to face certain truths. But let's also admit that sometimes it's the best and most constructive thing we can do.
The making of this independent documentary film is a case in point. One point of light among the billions. The film maker tells his story of the walls of silence and denial he faced in the making of it, and now in the showing of it. I think you may find it interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg753aPeGaw