Does the last blog not sound like a parody of modern politics, where politicians and professors regard themselves as “golden calves\u201d (icons of the most important objects in the group) who demand sacrifice from the \u201cscapegoats\u201d (icons of the ones who somehow failed to live up to the expectation that they should sacrifice everything for the most important object in the group)?<\/p>\n
It sounds so to me.<\/p>\n
It also sounds like Nietzsche\u2019s manifesto, where he placed himself into the roles of both Socrates (by writing in the genre of theoretical aesthetics) and Dionysius (by writing in the genre of tragic drama (pages 22, 35)).<\/p>\n
Nietzsche thus midwifed his own Birth, that is Of Total Tragedy, encompassing both Apollonarian and Dionysian poles (29).<\/p>\n
Nietzsche sought to take credit for the sacrifices of both man (Socrates) and god (Dionysius).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Does the last blog not sound like a parody of modern politics, where politicians and professors regard themselves as “golden calves\u201d (icons of the most important objects in the group) who demand sacrifice from the \u201cscapegoats\u201d (icons of the ones who somehow failed to live up to the expectation that they should sacrifice everything for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-the-scapegoat-girard"],"yoast_head":"\n