Dionysius is stalking

    Our society is the best representation of what " Apollinian" mens. It is a society controled by fool people. Fools without reason. When I say " fools" I mean vacuous people that are unable to think by themselves. However, these fools are the most powerfull people of the world. Nevertheless, We are  the true fools because we let them persuade us to do whatever they want to.

Furthermore,  we can't deny that our society is attending to a crisis of values. While the old greek men used to be worried about the  ἀρχή - which is the cause of everything-, the old roman people used to be worried about being the best engineers in order to make their neighbours life easy. What are we worry about? We are worried about having the latest fashion either in technology and fashion. We are worried about reaching our aims , even though sometimes it involves destroy the aims of our mates. We are worried about not being worried. What would our future be if the Greeks or Romans hadn't be worried about anything?

To my mind, the world would  never be the same. Maybe in our world, Dionysius would have always reigned and we would have never known Apollo. Fortunately, our world has known  Apollonian things- the order, the ability to think... and maybe that's the reason why we want him back. Unfortunately, there's always Dionysian in all Apollonian things. Is like a war that is being developed inside ours souls. I have some proves to support what I am saying. Ten years ago when a teenager saw an old woman, the teen used to help her. Nowadays, young people ignore everyone except themselves. What are we pretending to do with this? We are even loosing manners with old people. Don't forget that they are lucky, they have known Apollo.

Someone could tell me that I am a liar because ancient Greeks used to have a balance between Apollo and Dionysius. When they had to work hard they were Apollo and when they had to drink wine, dance and eat they were  Dionysius. However, in our society this is impossible. There will always be a dichotomy between Apollo and Dionysius. That's just because our society is the society of the excess. There is no a "modern Greek" that is a hard-worker and then has time to have time. Nowadays, if you work hard, you don't have time to have fun. And, if you have fun is because you don't have a job. Therefore, we can learn that by placing Apollo in our life we would have controlled our Dionysius, and we would have created another type of society. Maybe the old philosopher would have never disappeared.

In short, it seems that our society has lack of principles. It appears that we are just worried about sports, music, fashion and parties. At this way, Dionysius will always be stalking us. Our world would never stop being a fight between Apollo and Dionysius, a fight between the justice and the injustice, the reasonable and the unreasonable. As the great philosopher Karl Marx said" The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it." That change has to be made by us. What do we prefer? Live on the ignorance or develop our skills to create a better world? 

Me and Marx's quote.