Joel: A myth is a narrative told to convey a community' s traditional wisdom  Myths are not generally told in the modern world because there are no longer bodies of generally accepted truths that can be conveyed in this way  Giselle: Of course there are myths in the modern world
For example, there is the myth of the machine: we see the human body as a machine, to be fixed by mending defective parts
It is based on an unsupported distinction between traditional societies and the modern world.