It's important to not get too caught up in literary traditions because the "spiritual" disposition is what's crucial here, and one is typically of it, without realizing. The majority of moderns and postmoderns do prefer or default into ethics, aesthetics, spiritualities, patterns, and heuristics that encourage a deadening of rationality and of constructive agency. They do operate as if "seized" by very lowly or subterranean forces, and it so happens that our literature and media celebrates this.
Mind you, there were Greeks who hated Athena and loved dionysus; the dominating principle is just currently flipped. A bacchante would prefer this era to the classical one, and I the inverse.
It's important to not get too caught up in literary traditions because the "spiritual" disposition is what's crucial here, and one is typically of it, without realizing. The majority of moderns and postmoderns do prefer or default into ethics, aesthetics, spiritualities, patterns, and heuristics that encourage a deadening of rationality and of constructive agency. They do operate as if "seized" by very lowly or subterranean forces, and it so happens that our literature and media celebrates this.
Mind you, there were Greeks who hated Athena and loved dionysus; the dominating principle is just currently flipped. A bacchante would prefer this era to the classical one, and I the inverse.