Living the myth
In Rick Riordan's young person novel, Percy Jackson and the Lightening Thief, which I heard today on a recorded narration while observing a Los Angeles Unified 6th grade class, I learned that, if one of your parents is a Greek god, you might have ADHD and Dyslexia. This has happened to 12 year old Percy, whose mom, Sally, a mortal, though she can "see through the mist," perceived Poseidon, god of the sea, on the beach and one thing led to another.
To bring this back to our subject, the book's storyline has a remarkable resemblance to humankind's current, real storyline. In the chapter I heard, Percy makes his way into the underworld on an urgent diplomatic mission to talk to Hades, the god of death. Hades screams at Percy, accusing him of trying to start a war between the gods by hiding the Master Bolt, the gods' strongest weapon (producing lightening bolts as powerful as nuclear bombs), in his bag. Percy denies it, but when pressed to open the bag, to his shock, there is the Master Bolt. Hades takes it but continues to be outraged because he still won't have enough power to wage war unless he has another weapon of the gods, the Helmet of Darkness, which makes the person wearing it invisible and creates fear in anyone nearby. Percy realizes that Aries, the god of war, must have slipped the Master Bolt into the bag as part of his plot to start a war of the gods. The teacher asked students why Aries wants to do that, and most answered, "Because he's the god of war." Apparently that's all it takes.
I think the story conjures the zeitgeist we're entering. Just add the God of Money- who turns out to be Hades again because the underworld is full of precious metals (probably lots of lithium)- and you've got our story in a nutshell.
Though the Greek gods direct everyone to hell, or at least the underworld, there are different neighborhoods. Some will get the precious metals, some the shaft.
What can soon-to-be-shafted people do? Politically there isn't much available. We need something new, defined by terms other than "right" and "left" and symbols other than "$," that reflect ideas about how to respond to changes in our species like none before.