The good guy/bad guy myth
I have to disagree with the assumptions here that there are no ancient good guy&#x2F;bad guy narratives. 
David vs Goliath. Samson and the Philistines. 
Jesus against Death in Revelation. 
And that&#x27;s just the Bible.<p>People&#x27;s stories going through history follow all sorts of narratives, some that are hero&#x2F;villain, some that are proverbial, some where some virtue is being exemplified by one or more people, and some evil exemplified by people or elemental forces and nature. 
There&#x27;s nothing modern about it, it&#x27;s just that you can make anything seem hazier or more opaque or you reduce it to a binary, depending on just how much you want to over analyze it.