Stylized high tragedy preserves the memory of primitive demonology.

Evidence

Tragedies which, by means of ‘style’, most strictly maintain a distance from mere existence, at the same time most faithfully preserve, with their communal processions, masks and sacrifices, the memory of the demonology of primitive man. — Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 135

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A dense dialectical claim: artistic distance is precisely what transmits the archaic under-content style suppresses.
• XREF: Connects to Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy and to Frazer/Girard readings of tragedy as displaced sacrifice. — connects to: The myth of the Fall seeds the secular West’s capacity for horror

Broader Connections

• The myth of the Fall seeds the secular West’s capacity for horror #expands (0.72)