One of the real ongoing tragedies in the daily life of the modern individual is the breakdown in basic communication, attributable in part to historical traumas, and the reproduction of daily traumas, which steadily crackle like some kind of radioactive fallout. Communication is diverted from the relations between individuals and their environments, and towards the maintenance of a vast industrial apparatus.
There is a constant production of individual projections and the interactions between those projections, held together by a common ideology and world view, which mediate communication in general. So we see the constant reproduction of myth and archetype, myths and archetypes that mirror this ongoing daily fallout, as they are given shape by a mass media eager to reflect a people's concerns and desires back at them. All of this gives shape to and mediates daily communication, at least in the mainstream.
This is a very high level, and thus abstract view. I hope to clarify further sometime in the future.
