bigthink has an article discussing Joseph Campbell and Alan Watts thoughts on the modern crisis of meaning and purpose.
"More and more each one of us is thrown on to our own resources. This seems to me an excellent state of affairs. So that in a symbolic sense we are back in the forest like the hunter of old who has nobody around him to tell him how to feel or how he ought to use his senses. He therefore must make his own exploration and find out for himself."