00:00Let me give you my argument about why being rational all the time is killing us just a
00:03little bit. There is this concept introduced by Friedrich Nietzsche on Apollo and Dionysus.
00:07Apollo and Dionysus are both sons of Zeus. Apollo is the god of reason, the rational,
00:11the form, the order, the clarity and precision. On the other hand, Dionysus is the god of chaos.
00:16He represents the irrational, the emotions, the instinct and the passion. In fact, he
00:19represents the ecstatic and messy parts of being a human. Each of us is a product of both. Nietzsche
00:24argues that the great human expression, especially art, comes from the tension between these two
00:28forces, not from choosing one or the other. But in our quest to be the most civilized versions of
00:32ourselves, we forgot that Dionysus exists in all of us. Now, do I believe that we got rid of Dionysus?
00:37Of course not. Nietzsche is very clear that we cannot completely get rid of Dionysus. We can repress
00:42it. However, we cannot completely eradicate it and it always comes back in some form or the other
00:46and sometimes even in unhealthy forms. Nietzsche talks about Socrates as a cultural shift where
00:50we became deeply obsessed with reasoning and logic and the belief that everything we know could be
00:55understood and explained and fixed through rationality and logic alone. In that regard,
00:59we forgot about art and instinct and embodied emotion and treated it as something suspicious
01:03and something to be controlled. This is how I see it personally. Nowadays, Dionysus feels like
01:07something that we have to earn, something that is very distant from us and something that we have to
01:11keep chasing. And for many people, the only way they can imagine this level of freedom to be chaotic
01:16or intensity is through money, by excess conception and or escape. But too much Dionysus giving in fully
01:21entire impulse is also a problem. Walter Router says how Dionysus is both the embodiment of fullness
01:26of life and the violence of death. So to completely give in to Dionysus is a problem. But however,
01:31giving in completely to Apollo, the pure rationality and pure order can leave our life feeling very dry
01:36and rigid and hollow. There would not be a day where you have to completely choose one and feel fulfilled.
01:42You always have to remember that you are a product of both. For me, engaging in art is where the
01:47balance
01:47lives. Dionysus is the madness, the raw unfiltered impulse to create, while Apollo is what gives it
01:52form. A modern day example of this would be do not let AI give structure and write out your thoughts
01:57for you. Instead, if it is absolutely necessary, use it as a supplementary tool. Let your Dionysus run
02:03wild once in a while and whatever comes out, let it be art, writing or creativity, then shape it using
02:08the Apollo way.
02:09Maria does not use the Apollo way to do with it as a supplementary tool.
02:09Davises
02:09The waltem
02:09The waltem
02:09The waltem
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