MODERN MYTHS AND THE LOGICAL LAW OF IDENTITY (AGAINST BROAD INTERPRETATION OF MYTH)
The article serves the purpose to prove that modern myths, if they are myths, must possess on the strength of the law of identity the same distinctive features that ancient myths have. Author considers characteristic features of ancient myths (anthropo-sociomorphism, illogicalness) and asserts that a majority of the so called modern myths do not own them. A whole number of examples taken from scientific literature is given, that should be properly attributed to ideological patterns, illusions and prejudices. It is impossible to govern myths - to create, to implant in people’s mind, to refute them. A myth is a product of spontaneous group creativity, its subject is impersonal. At the same time the author does not deny that genuine modern myths there could exist.