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I wouldn't call it a mythology unless referencing the ones that are based on mythology (like thor). What makes myths so powerful is that they are so old that we don't know the author or if there even was one.
The stories we collectively see in our "mainstream media" has always been used to convey cultural values and moral lessons (for better or for worse) long before comic movies blew up, people would reference any other movie or tv show in conversation so long as it is relevant and both had witnessed the same media.
We could argue that the internet broke the monoculture of the media so that nowadays most people get their media from more niche, curated sources such as youtube or steam; rather than when everyone saw the same movies and talked about the recent drama on Friends and Seinfeld or whatever. Or later on when almost everyone would spit out Borat quotes so much that even the few who didn't see the film became part of the culture.
I think we have come a long way in the last 20 years. And the media today does not have much of a message at all, its more just "normalization" or degeneracy via just having it exist unchallenged, rarely with any story regarding it. There are exceptions but the majority of new films do not convey cultural values and moral lessons effectively even when they try, they usually just make a well-known character gay.
The stories we collectively see in our "mainstream media" has always been used to convey cultural values and moral lessons (for better or for worse) long before comic movies blew up, people would reference any other movie or tv show in conversation so long as it is relevant and both had witnessed the same media.
We could argue that the internet broke the monoculture of the media so that nowadays most people get their media from more niche, curated sources such as youtube or steam; rather than when everyone saw the same movies and talked about the recent drama on Friends and Seinfeld or whatever. Or later on when almost everyone would spit out Borat quotes so much that even the few who didn't see the film became part of the culture.
I think we have come a long way in the last 20 years. And the media today does not have much of a message at all, its more just "normalization" or degeneracy via just having it exist unchallenged, rarely with any story regarding it. There are exceptions but the majority of new films do not convey cultural values and moral lessons effectively even when they try, they usually just make a well-known character gay.