Johnstone, Impro - tragedy is stylized human sacrifice, a superstimulus of the exhilarating experience of killing a high-status person.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
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@ozymandias314 what predictions does this make and do they match observed reality1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@admittedlyhuman@ozymandias314 Do you ask about this in particular because you suspect (a) few and (b) no?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing not specifically, it's just what you ask. as a philistine I'm not well-placed to evaluate theories about art.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@admittedlyhuman It's hard to summarize all of his examples - predictions about what creates particular reactions in audiences.
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