Wow. My hat is off to this fine piece. It's well written and effectively nuanced in treating the subtleties of its subject.

It's interesting thinking about humanity's abandonment and/or distortion of mythos. Was it never as powerful in reducing angst as we retrospectively might think? Was mythos a band-aid over angst that we replaced with science?

"Whereof we cannot speak of, thereof let us be silent." I wish we could go back to awe and wonder without stories.