MYTHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIETY VIRTUALIZATION

Abstract

INTRODUCTION Every cultural-historical era is characterized by certain mental attitudes, mental constructions and ideas that form the image of social reality. The latter determines man’s place in social space, his attitude to the world around him, and most importantly, his knowledge. It is through cognitive abilities in the human mind the images are formed and they are the basis of the social ideal, social reality, prognostic orientation of comprehension of social existence. Consciousness as a way of reflecting and understanding reality acts as a way of human existence. To explain various phenomena, both to himself and to others, man seeks to use the most understandable definitions and comparisons. Within the framework of social system, general concepts appear about general and regular causes of events; this, in turn, contributes to the formation of mass consciousness of people. This is an important circumstance, since myth is one of the ways of perceiving reality; it is a form of reflection/construction in the consciousness of reality. The point is that mythological consciousness has the power to construct from the fragments, chaos of the external world of impressions, an integral picture of the world, determining the style of thinking and the way people exist in this world. In all historical times, human consciousness contained mythological components (images, symbols, beliefs, convictions, prejudices) of all value levels and strata existing in a given culture. This is the basis of any sociocultural phenomenon, the basis of all forms of being, perceived by man as the only possible reality. It can be said that myth is an idealized, valuably and emotionally colored “mark” of reality, the existence of which is vital to the structure of human consciousness 1 .