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13/ Yet the edge is not just inside us. Entire cultures go mad—the ‘order’ of 'shared reality' is itself deranged. Another type of guide emerges welding inner rupture to outer critique, staging a ‘madness’—prophetic theater that exposes personal and social delusion in one breath. x.com/nick_routledge1/status/2003203791034941720

Copy of tweet here: Opinion piece by professor Joel Christensen: Ancient Athenians held annual competitions in which playwrights responded to events “in real life” through myth and storytelling. This ritualized storytelling, or “tragic performance,” had a therapeutic effect. https://bit.ly/3hULfOx Similarly, Wayang puppet theater, introduced to Indonesia, possibily by Sufi psychopomps, circa 1000 CE. Traveling puppetmasters or Dalangs, take the pulse of local zeitgeist, then perform a fitting (Hindu) epic or local legend. Mythic performance art as social physicianship.
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Copy of tweet here: Opinion piece by professor Joel Christensen: Ancient Athenians held annual competitions in which playwrights responded to events “in real life” through myth and storytelling. This ritualized storytelling, or “tragic performance,” had a therapeutic effect. bit.ly/3hULfOx Similarly, Wayang puppet theater, introduced to Indonesia, possibily by Sufi psychopomps, circa 1000 CE. Traveling puppetmasters or Dalangs, take the pulse of local zeitgeist, then perform a fitting (Hindu) epic or local legend. Mythic performance art as social physicianship.