[Blarg]

Well, if you are responding to me, that's not quite what I said, and what I did say, you simplistically.

I didn't say feeling ONLY the tragic. And in fact the whole tenor and thrust of my post was allowing oneself to consider the full range of experience rather than narrowing it down to only what's comfortable or acceptable.

I don't think that to be fully human one has to be FULLY human, including noodling into every single corner of the human pysche no matter how crazy, criminal, or pointless. But classical tragedy speaks deeply to the human soul, and though it's just a downer or even repellant to many people, it's on the menu for anyone who doesn't want a narrow soul.