Mythical Individual and Surrogate Individual: The End of Civilization as a Desire

Abstract

This last chapter focuses on the distinction between the mythical individual, linked to an understanding of the world endowed with meaning, from the surrogate one, virtually mediated and moved by fragmented stimuli. In comparing these characteristics, the current individual is perceived as a healthy bearer of incivility, to the point of more or less consciously maturing a desire aimed at the end of civilization, at the height of its liberation. The return to the natural dimension and a tribal future then become possibilities as well as a threat, if the enormous socio-cultural change that will take place cannot be understood and dealt with in time. So that we can only determine if this will happen peacefully and with the least possible damage, or in a traumatic process of the collapse of civilization, aggravated by events such as new wars and the further senseless exploitation of the planet.