The Spectacle Is At The Same Time

But Myth Is Something Else Than An Explanation Of The World, Of History, And Of Destiny. Myth Expresses In Terms Of The World - That Is, Of The Other World Or The Second World - The Understanding That Man Has Of Himself In Relation To The Foundation And The Limit Of His Existence. Hence To Demythologize Is To Interpret Myth, That Is, To Relate The Objective Representations Of The Myth To The Self-understanding Which Is Both Shown And Concealed In It.

So Long As The New Testament Served To Decipher The Old, It Was Taken As An Absolute Norm.

Myth Expresses In Terms Of The World - That Is, Of The Other World Or The Second World - The Understanding That Man Has Of Himself In Relation To The Foundation And The Limit Of His Existence.

To Put It In A Few Words, The True Malice Of Man Appears Only In The State And In The Church, As Institutions Of Gathering Together, Of Recapitulation, Of Totalization.

On A Cosmic Scale, Our Life Is Insignificant, Yet This Brief Period When We Appear In The World Is The Time In Which All Meaningful Questions Arise.