Johnstone, Impro - tragedy is stylized human sacrifice, a superstimulus of the exhilarating experience of killing a high-status person.
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Tragic heroes must play high status; human sacrifice victims get high status before death (crown of thorns, drugs & feasts for Incan kids).
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During revolutions, this drive gets acted out until all the high status people are hamburger.
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