Apollynian Culture Overthrows Titans and Slay Monsters

Nica: The highest effect of apollynian culture is that it always must first overthrow an empire of titans and slay monsters. They overcame this keenest susceptibility to suffering through recourse to the most forceful and pleasurable illusions, he says. And so i think what nicha is getting at here is that the dionycian rather than being some sort of expression of our romanticism, which is not naive in an anthropological sense, but perhaps naive in quite a literal sense, right? It's as if nica sang a the idea of a terrestrial paradise and this return to nature as a sort of paradisaical like pre civilizational utopia. Only a romantic