The great human task - to learn to live, and love and die... These are, of course, the classic questions of human psychological development. And it may be that growing to mature adulthood requires us to reject much popular mythology: that life is simply handed to us, that love is easy, quick, fated, romantic, and death is a subject to be avoided altogether.

Popular mythology, transmitted through an endless onslaught of images and sound bytes whuch appeal to the propensity toward addiction, slowly erode the God-given conscience.