The problem is that with the success of the Enlightenment, science, and our modern culture, we seem to have discarded the idea of mythos as part of our mainstream culture.

FORBES: The Unnecessary Conflict Between Evangelicalism and Science

Mr Weber detects a similar reaction in the survival of millennial beliefs into recent times, which he treats as the embers of resistance to science and enlightenment.

ECONOMIST: The other millennium bug

Modern thinking is the enlightenment thinking that ended the Dark Ages and ushered in Newtonian science.

FORBES: The Rabbi's Four Leadership Lessons, Part 2