Anything else is for sissies . A Greek Chorus Superflat is paradoxical because it's a sort of immanent transcendentalism which denies all transcendence. Zen, for instance, is a religion without a god or a conception of heaven. It emphasises emptiness, hereness, nowness, the sound of breath being drawn in and released. It's as if our Christian emphasis on the rottenness of the body and the imperfection of this world has made us blind to sublunary charm.
Japan is full of it.
In Greek tragedy the chorus is an intermediary, spelling out the laws of the gods, commenting from a transcendental perspective on the actions of the play. In a Japanese department store the shop assistants are a chorus welcoming you to the banalities of buying, and yet their very formality and impersonality imbue this simple, stupid activity with a sense of the mysterious, the profound. I don't know. But I'm curious about where it all started to go wrong for the west. Why, the Christians , of course.