I find the Apollonian/Dionysian classification is useful when looking at worship styles in religion: Zen and Catholic Mass being Apollonian, while Voodoo trances and Pentecostal services land on the Dionysian end. It's certainly useful to understand that things are often a mix of both.
The return to nature aspect of Dionysus reminds me also of Robespierre or the Transcendentalist movement.
I find the Apollonian/Dionysian classification is useful when looking at worship styles in religion: Zen and Catholic Mass being Apollonian, while Voodoo trances and Pentecostal services land on the Dionysian end. It's certainly useful to understand that things are often a mix of both.
The return to nature aspect of Dionysus reminds me also of Robespierre or the Transcendentalist movement.
I find that when applied that way, it’s typically highly abstract oversimplification
This is deep! That life is suffering and beauty at once, and that to embrace this is the highest art.