Mission Statement — monsters & mirrors

Things like this, they’re forgotten in the intellectual culture, but my feeling is they’re alive in the popular culture, in people’s sentiments and atttitudes and understanding and so on. — Chomsky “On Anarchism”

My thesis will focus on 1)that all societies have a notion of the other. 2)what the other in Greek society is. 3)how the LGBT* today are other. 4)how the experience of LGBT* is equatable to the experience of the other in Greek society (exclusion). 6)how the asian/foreign aspect of Dionysus makes him more relatable, and allows him to perform a bridging function. 5)how dionysus brings the Greek other into the centre. 7)how the ‘dionysiac’ (seaford) brings the other into the centre in modern day. 8) How the LGBT* has been brought into the centre. 9) Connecting the LGBT* back to Greek other. 10)how moving forward from here a period of normalisation is needed, and how the Greek worship of Dionysus is an equatable period of normalisation.