Beowulf relevancy in the contempory world!

So, how does Beowulf translate into the contemporary world.  This ancient poem about a culture now gone from the world - does it mean anything? If you view Beowulf as an antiwar poem (and it is), the monsters become symbols of the violence inherent within the culture.  You can kill a monster but the violence will remain (violence is circular).  Likewise, today, terrorism is the monster, the Grendel, of American culture - a symbol of the things we've done to world (invading foreign nations, promoting our global products into every niche of the planet, searching for oil, globalization on a massive scale).  You can kill Bin Laden...