Why We Need Drama

"If we did not have the right to power and the right to rebel against tryranny, arbitrariness, moodiness, tactlessness, we could not bear to have any relation to people from whose characters we suffer. We would feel pushed to take desperate steps -- and these, indeed, would end the relation but do not, perhaps, constitute "conflict.". . .Our opposition makes us feel that we are not completely victims of the circumstances. It allows us to prove our strength consciously and only thus gives vitatlity and reciprocity to conditions from which, witout such corrective, we would withdraw at any cost." George Simmel from "Forms of Social Interaction"