The old gods are dead

The old gods are dead and with them their myths. We built other myths, of course, but these are now more subtle than the ancients, because today we are unaware of them. The old gods are dead and new ones and oppress us, prey of them, mock the old. Today we are dominated by myths, sex and power, history and technique. The first myth: the beautiful future everyone will eat abundantly and will have sex with whomever they wish and every difference will be answered in a common happiness. The myth of history, a development from dark to light, with us in a dominant position, say at the height of knowledge and live happy. This seems like the harder myth to die, although they appear constantly clues of its futility and inconsistency. Our story today is called contemporary history, since 1789. And then? As you will later call? No way, the story is over. And finally, the myth of the technique that solves everything and, if not resolved now, certainly not solve tomorrow. But the technique is not that a useful result of science, which is instead pure invention and is, in its highest hypothesis, a metaphysical cosmology. And the science tells us today that matter, energy, atoms, many, light, electrodynamics, are representations for us, expressions of something that is expressed mysterious and unknowable, which is behind, which is hidden.