Moses pleads with God to let him into Israel. But God refuses. Instead of trying to explain away and rationalize away God's decision, might it be better to just acknowledge that this is sad, this is heartbreaking, this is a tragedy?

Our culture has forgotten how to process the tragic. We try to smooth things over with clichés and silver linings. The Ancient Greeks knew how to confront tragedy: by accepting it, reveling in it, exalting in it. They did so not through logic but through music, through the Greek Chorus of the tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles.

Music which does not contain shades of the tragic will not register with us, will sound superfluous and irritating. When he was with the Beatles, John Lennon's songs took listeners through the spectrum of human emotion. Yet, in his final album, Lennon forgot how to create the Dionysian music of the Ancient Greek theater.

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Music: The Beatles - "Her Majesty"