Western Identity vs. The Drums

Totally stole this from Chucky's Archival Blog. Reminds me of the Tribal Tour:

"As horrified witnesses of ecstatic ritual, Europeans may have learned very little about the peoples they visited (and often destroyed in the process) - their deities and traditions, their cultures and worldview. But they did learn, or imaginatively construct, something centrally important about themselves: that the essence of the Western mind, and particularly the Western male, upper-class mind, was its ability to resist the contagious rhythm of the drums, to wall itself up in a fortress of ego and rationality against the seductive wildness of the world."

– Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets