The jaded world at large (Score 3, Interesting)

Neil, Your book American Gods has several "newer gods", such as the internet and media, that seem rather cold, cruel and calculating. A few also seem to reflect how Americans (or people from all over the world for that matter), in this day and age, react to wonder and amazement, as in the example of Mr. Town from "The Spook Show" suggesting that strange phenomenon of all sorts could be "explained" while conversing with the book's main character, Shadow, at the center of America. Do you believe in this day and age there is a dying interest in what could be referred to as "wonder and amazement", or perhaps a sense of apathy, that drowns out our natural curiostiy, and if so were these "newer gods" reflections of this?