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Sweetness and light is the phrase that comes to mind as I read this Tommy. Your observations seem to come from a place of good humour, and wisdom… now I’m sure there is a great deal more to you than that- but that’s what came up for me just now.

On a more serious note I’ve been intrigued by Simon Critchley’s Tragedy the Greeks & Us. In which he argues that the Greek tragedies offer us a better understanding hideous madness of the current world than perhaps any other approach. He draws on Nietzsche’s argument that since Aristotle the Dionysian side of humanity has been neglected…so we are lead to believe that it rationality has all the answers… which clearly is not the case ..

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