The Dionysian Must Be Recognized or It Will Disrupt Our Civilization

To transform nature into something understood as beautiful or pretty requires us to repress the more brutal aspects of nature. Western science and aesthetics are attempts to revise this horror into imaginatively palatable form. The cothonian or dionysian becomes repressed when the apollonian takes centre stage, says John reed. In my opinion, it will ultimately disrupt our civilization by its demands to be recognized.