Our mythological heroes have lost their charm. That doesn't worry me too much. Charm is transient while values are not. We have to accept that we are a transient society desperately trying to grab at permanence, the permanence of culture, the permanence of religions, and the permanence of Life. We cannot ignore the quick changing facets of modern society.
Values are permanent, eternal.
We have to guard ourselves against the erosion of our value system and our identity. It is the moral and social responsibility of us, elders, to ensure that our children learn to appreciate the richness of our mythological heroes, to resist the current of change, a powerful current that threatens to change our values and shifts our roots. The acceleration of change is an elemental force, which has personal, psychological and sociological consequences. The mythological heroes are getting a beating as a result of this dizzy pace of change. Unless we learn to control the rate of change in our personal affairs as well as in society at large we are doomed to a massive adaptational breakdown.