Masked beauty
In my latest post over at Law & Liberty (https://www.lawliberty.org/2019/06/28/commercial-civilization-apollonian-or-dionysian/) I try to show that Caillois’s account of us — members of a commercial civilisation — does not quite capture the totality of how commerce works. Caillois thinks we are Apollonian, rather than mask wearing Dionysians. Civilisation is the substitution of the norms of…