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Whoa, I didn't know Nietzsche was chill like that (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 28 points 11 hours ago (10 children)

"The good thing about Wagner is that he's not that German" is not a take I expected

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 11 hours ago (8 children)

    That's basically nietzsche's entire shtick. Create a nuclear hot take and then justify it through completely unexpected angles. It's why he's so fun to read, even though he's a reactionary.

    Also, he's weirdly obsessed with digestion for some reason.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 hours ago

    Also, he's weirdly obsessed with digestion for some reason.

    From what I understand of his themes, he wants to move away from the brain (pure intellect, science, philosophies that come as a result of rational thought and natural conclusions of "The Good") to philosophies born of instinct and what "feels right". You don't really want certain foods because you came to the natural conclusions that it is the healthiest for you by reading the ingredients and comparing it to your dietary needs, you want food because you tried it and you like the way it makes you feel. He essentially wants to treat morality the same way, adopting whatever morality system affirms his life the most.

    Nietzsche was a sickly guy, and when he was feeling bad, he was stuck in bed, feeling sick and being resentful of himself and everyone. When he was feeling good, he would go on long walks and imagining an ideal person who was untethered by modern morality. I kinda see these as depressive and manic phases (not to diagnose him, it's just the closest parallel to my own life), but he saw the true emotions/drives behind slave and master moralities

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  • [–] 6 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

    He was probably preoccupied with digestion because he suffered from really bad gastrointestinal and abdominal issues his whole life - among many other severe ailments. Why do you think he was reactionary?

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  • [–] 4 points 5 hours ago

    He was undoubtedly a reactionary. Losurdo's book on Nietzsche describes how he's a reactionary. This review of the book touches on some of the major points (the book itself is long af at about a 1000 pages, I only made it half way through before tiring out and giving up). If I were to explain his worldview in a nutshell, it's that culture requires that there be a permanent underclass for the cultured aristocracy to oppress; there is no culture without this. Because of this, socialism, along with any strain of thought that leads the aristocracy to take pity on those beneath them, must be combatted

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  • [–] 9 points 7 hours ago

    Why do you think he was reactionary?

    Probably because he was. The easiest thing to point to is that he was a devout anticommunist on the basis not only of disdain for the specific communist movements of his day but because he thought the stated goals of communism, e.g. "to each according to their need," an end to war, etc. would effectively mean the death of the human spirit. He gets sanitized all the time but he was fundamentally loudly opposed to social progress except for his own schema of an atomized second "revaluation of all values" to have the non-sheeple live as moral artists and inventors.

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