“This is hard to understand. Are you saying that your people use songs to generate the [parametheos?] but, having no awareness of this fact, you just use it like an intoxicant or drug? For what you call ‘kicks’? And that you get tens of thousands of them together at once for this?

Yes… why?

I do not know if you realize how incredible that seems to us. In metaphors familiar to you, this would be like working hard to buy an exotic Ferrari only to drive it into a wall because ‘it makes a cool sound when you do this’. Or assembling a spacecraft capable of carrying a sustainable colony to Mars, fitting it for the journey, and then blowing it up during ascent ‘because it makes such pretty colors in the sky’.

But it’s worse than metaphors familiar to your people, because what you assemble when you do this is a living power. A force. This force has inherent intelligence. You are making something like a ‘child in energy-sensing’.

This being-force can communicate. It can teach. It can heal, or destroy. The force in the dancing people is not meant to be spent like a sport orgasm. This force, directed, can move human history in a single event. It can shatter enemies. It can shelter allies.

You’re telling me that your people are so confused that they when they generate wings together, they become so forgetful and exuberant that, rather than using them to fly to heaven, they just fan them exotically as if it were a kind of sex-drug. Their dances are only half a dance. They dress without a reason. They expend their spirit force in grand exhibitionism, instead of focusing it to fine intensity, and directing it with intention for noble or urgent purpose. It is hard for us not to see you has bereft of sense and mind. How did you come to learn this strange thing?

Our dances bring us into the world of the future together, in agreement, in remembrance, in recognition — in wonder and respect. In awe. Our people would simply not be able to exist if our dances had no purpose.

The thought of it alone makes my heart beat cold.”

— an anonymous informant