Mything in Action

I have reading like a fiend the last couple weeks. On the one hand, I just finished reading Euripides’ play, The Bacchae, for school, which is a play about what happens when we actively try to suppress Dionysos. On the other hand, I have been exploring the three major time periods of Greek civilization with my students, which includes the idea that the Hellenic Athenians were striving for balance between the archetypal forces of Apollo and Dionysos. And on the third hand (the hand of Shiva), I have been listening to selected speeches from the Democratic and Republican Conventions. So the question is this:

Just how well balanced are Apollo and Dionysos in our country at this time?

And I haven’t thought of an answer yet, but I offer it for consideration:

So Robert Johnson and Joseph Campbell both suggest that the Grail romances are the myths for the modern era, specficially for the male psyche. I argue along the same vein that the myth for the female psyche is “Pride and Prejudice.” The question is this:

What if the modern American myth is linked to
Peter Pan and the myth of never growing up?

Please leave me your thoughts in the comments.