Creativity, Art, Sexuality

The confluence of fertility and music in the Dionysian festival is no coincidence--each is a type of social Creativity.  Prior to Nietzsche, the types are significantly distinguished.  For centuries, under the influence of the predominant Theological tradition, the creator of human beings is a super-natural deity, whereas the creator of art is super-human, but not supernatural, i. e. genius.  Schopenhauer inverts that contrast, with a naturalistic Will to Live as the progenitor of human beings, and super-natural Platonic Forms as the impetus of Art.  In contemporary American culture, the similarity of the two has continued insofar as the status of each of the two forces has been trivialized in the same way--privatized as a property possessed by an individual, i. e. as is expressed by e. g.  "X is a genius", or by "X has sexual prowess".  Lost in such locutions is Nietzsche's briefly entertained insight that Creativity, of either type, is fundamentally a Species event, experienced as exuberance, as has been previously discussed.