Dionysus and Apollo

Dionysus is the sympathetic emotion, transporting us into other people, other places, other times. Apollo is hard, cold separatism of western personality and categorical thought. Dionysus is energy, unbound, mad, callous, destructive, wasteful. Every excess breeds its counter reaction. Western culture swings from point to point on its complex cycle,. We have littered the world with grandios elements. Our story is vast, lurid and unending.