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indeed. i would argue religion has not declined, it was replaced, replaced by pop culture, or by other media.I would also point to the decline of religion in the west as a major factor. This changes (IMO, damages) morality.
the amount of time people spent reading the Bible in the past couldn't have been more than the amount of time and energy they spend arguing about Star Wars or comic book movies nowadays. then again they don't learn much from modern movies. they are very poor substitutes for actual Legendary Texts.
the problem is, the old religious stories had moral dimensions to them. modern culture does not. people have read Joseph Campbell and that's about it, they have little interest in the traditions he was studying, they think they are all a joke. Campbell is a Cliff Notes way to summarize all of storytelling and too many writers rely on it these days. he explored the world, saw many types of stories, many unique cosmologies. it is funny that his one circle Hero's Journey diagram he drew is basically used to rubber stamp all Hollywood blockbusters.
postmodernism is a poison. it brings this idea that "everything has already been done" and the only thing left is to juxtapose things, or deconstruct them, usually in a showy way. this drives the popular reliance of "meta" in storytelling, which i find a cheap, shallow gimmick, used by people with little imagination. Donald Glover said "There are no more stories to tell" in this regard, it is this defeatism which when combined with franchisism is strangling culture. this is that postmodern elitism creeping in, thinking you live "at the end of history" and are some special snowflake. it is a crutch the people of the past, the ones who actually created all those legends that we still celebrate (in poorly xeroxed copies) never felt the need to lean on.
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