How culture is destroying archetypes

In The Matrix platos old thought experiment the Cave is visualized with beautiul stunts, CGI and an entertaining plot. It transforms the stuffy and old thought experiment to an easy understandable movie. It makes a filosophical point available to everyone.

Now Inception is doing the same thing. It takes us into a world where you can kill and where you can loose your love, and still it doesn't change anything. It shows us how the subconscious could work and it makes perfect good entertainment.

In the Sixth sense, the afterlife is turned up side down and we experience how it could be to be on the other side. The same goes for the perfect movie with Nicole Kidman The Others.

In comics they take the metaverse to a whole new level. The metaverse is the scientific idea that everytime you take a choice, the universe splits into two universes, one for each of your choices. Marvel takes this as litteral an automatically teaches readers about what the metaverse would mean, even if it uses superheroes to do it.

In computer games there are several god-games where the player is god for an entire little world.

Culture is exploring the deepest existential problems, the highest philosofical questions and the most important scientific discoveries. And they're are not only available from universities or dusty old books or on the internet; they are available in popular culture that billions of people watch, play and read.

We're at the point Nietzsche foresaw. The point where everyone will realize that the concept of God is dead in the human mind. Where millions and millions of people will realize that even the deepest thinkers has nothing more to offer than cheap thrills and fancy gadgets.

We are at the point where the comman man will realize that compared to the personal existential issues, science and philosophy is nothing more than an emperor without clothes.

The archetypes, no matter what kind of archetypes you subscribe to, are the big bad ideas that scare us. Look at greek mythology and there's a plethora of forbidden behaviour all anchored to different archetypes.

Now the archetypes are loosing their power. Pop-culture is driving us all to that point where the only way forward is to deal with existence for real. Thank god we're entertained all the way.