Johnstone, Impro - tragedy is stylized human sacrifice, a superstimulus of the exhilarating experience of killing a high-status person.
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It's universally exhilarating because it means there's now a new place in the group and we can all move up one.
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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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@sarahdoingthing Musicals are the only currently extant form of tragedy I'm familiar with and their heroes are typically low-social-status.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@ozymandias314 Johnstone thinks empathy is key - it ruins comedy and (he thinks) makes tragedy "pathetic" and wrecks the catharsis.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing I'm not sure. It *feels* like I'm identifying with the characters in a tragedy...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@ozymandias314 Yes! This makes me wonder what it would be like for one of us moderns to attend an old-fashioned public torture execution.
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@sarahdoingthing Repulsion. We don't have the right memes to make them a non-person.0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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