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historiography saying that paganism was defeated
by Judaeo-Christianity. I say that that’s false, that
paganism was driven underground and has
erupted again at three key moments: one of them
was the Renaissance, most people would agree
with that, that it was in some sense a revival of
Greco-Roman motifs and learning; then I say it was
at Romanticism with the eruption of the Dionysian­
Chthonian element, the Dynomic from
underground. Now the third eruption is that of
modern mass media. That is what I’m saying:
modern popular culture is all the repressed pagan
content of western civilization and has erupted.
That’s why I call the 20th century the age of