Beneath the surface of Nietzsche’s ploy swims a vital lesson:
“The most important object in the group” is the “object that brings the group into relation”.
Nietzsche imagined that this “object” could be Dionysius. The alternative, the theoretical man of Socrates, could only keep the divine passions at bay.
Nietzsche constructed a symbolic order where Dionysian madness would be “the object that brings the group – that is, the entire civilization (willing or not) – into relation”. Social constructions emanated from that symbolic order, giving organizational imperative to his vision. “Dionynsian madness” became “the object that brought all subjects into organization”.
It seems to me that Nietzche was not far off some mark. Look how many corpses resulted from the theoretically aesthetic tragic dramas of the 20th century.