Modern mythmaking and myth-busting

One of the paradoxes of the West is the maintenance of a mythical position of modern consciousness, and this with the simultaneous super-rational organization and centralized direction of all areas of material and spiritual production. Modern literature also develops a paradoxical state in which extreme intellectualism, and this in its most bloodless, almost mathematical forms, coexists with the unrestrained fetishization of everything primary, elementary and cave-like. Even intellectual constructions are used as a method for conscious and refined digging into the ancient, archaic layers of life. A tired civilization, a psyche torn by neuroses, an exhausted intellect seek stimulants and a transfusion of blood in order to regain lost vital energies, to be refreshed by the living water of the original sources. The modern writer - super-rational, skeptical and isolated in the chamber of his narrow specialization - creates modern myths. (The rational gaze, cooled and threatened by disastrous self-alienation, throws itself into the arms of the irrational blind elements in order to regain its lost primary vision. This is done through the great wave of modern mythmaking.)