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Something has changed. It is not only technology; our perception of time, our tolerance for waiting, and even the way we experience emotions have changed. Now almost every platform offers the option to watch or listen to content at 2x speed. Listening to a podcast at normal speed feels too long, we speed up educational videos, and skip slow-moving scenes in series. The minutes we believe we gain for productivity seem to force us constantly to catch up with more and more. Because all of us are tr

Modern Myths, despite the Enlightenment’s rationalist worldview and the dominance of the positivist paradigm, refer to the new forms and secular sacralities that mythic thought has assumed in contemporary society.【1】 Traditionally defined, myth encompasses sacred narratives such as folk tales and creation stories, but at its core it is a philosophy and mode of thought belonging to every era of human existence. The fundamental function of myths is to impose order on complex experiences, knowledge