Totalitarian structures and podia

OK, first subtitles to the picture. This just happens to be a Lubavitcher gathering but I can assure you all Hareidi gatherings look like carbon copies. So let's ponder this photo as an example. Obviously there is us front and above versus them the people. This distinction is very important to the Hareidi gatherings. You will find other cultures that accommodate this arrangement but you will never find a theater where symbolic distinction of us and them is so pronounced. Second rather comical attribute is a big banner on the back to announce the event. Right, as if everyone present didn't know why they came there. Obviously most Hareidim are secret media whores, they need the banner for the photos that are more important than the event itself. I suspect that the recent roots of this "art form" are in the totalitarian structures of Europe.

Now let's backtrack few thousand years. This is how Greeks understood theater. Makes sense actually provided that there are more people in the audience compared to the stage, an entirely not given fact for the Hareidi gatherings. You can see why democracy came out of Greece. The drama of mortal gods is but the service of people. This was also the problem Korach had with the elevation of Moshe and for what it's worth Alter Rebbe sided decidedly with Korach, but we digress. The world of Hareidim has no future till they allow bores and lackeys to occupy the artificially elevated ground. From the depths we cry out to you!