The Birth of Tragedy - 2 - The Death of Tragedy

Part TwoQuoteThe realm of poetry does not lie outside the world, a fantastic impossibility, the product of a poet's mind; it wishes to be precisely the opposite of this, the unadorned expression of truth, and must for that very reason cast off the mendacious finery of the supposed reality of the man of culture. Notes🔥 The Greeks, according to Nietzsche, viewed the events and characters on the stage as somehow real, and not with an awareness that it's a play. They were immersed in it. 🔥 The birth of tragedy is the Greek tragic chorus who are somehow "above" normal life and can reflect on it. They take us out of the tragedy of existence through art. 🔥 Poetry, metaphor, drama, these aren't symbolic forms. They're real; they're visions into true reality. 🔥 Dionysus was the original tragic hero. All other characters are masks of him. And there are ideas around Dionysus that "individuation is the source of all evil" and that art "breaks the spell of individuation." 🔥 "How religions die",…