Joseph Campbell assumed as much when he told a short parable about peering inside his PC. Campbell, who held that the major religions were all but obsolete and that modern myths were needed, was dazzled by the dizzy mandala of the computer’s microcircuitry. “Have you ever looked inside one of those things?” he asked an interviewer. “You can’t believe it. It’s a whole hierarchy of angels—all on slats.”
MARK DERY