As coronavirus shows no signs of going away any time soon, that means that the restrictions of Covid World will remain part of our lives for the foreseeable future. We’ve lived like this for over eight months now, and this new way of life is defined primarily, I think, by how repetitive it is. There are so many fewer things to do now, so many fewer places to go, and so many hidden dangers everywhere, that routines have become more entrenched than ever. The movie
I much appreciated your advice to begin with Nietzche’s two essays, On the Uses and Abuses of History and Schopenhauer as Educator. I made the mistake of diving into Thus Spake Zarathustra, which proved enormously difficult, mainly because there are so many metaphors and double rhetoric to hold in mind as Nietzsche makes his point. I've come to understand Nietzsche’s eternal return as analogous to an afterlife. Nietzsche appears to be giving his alternative to the Christian afterlife, which is enormously passive. But to transcend this life knowing well that there is no other side except an eternal recurrence of themes and one’s response to that set of circumstances. Poe said sleep resembles a little death. So, rising and awakening over and over is the closest we get to an afterlife.
Nietzsche sometimes denigrates dialectics, but his claim that the death of God implies that we ourselves must become gods is the most dialectical conclusion you could reach
I much appreciated your advice to begin with Nietzche’s two essays, On the Uses and Abuses of History and Schopenhauer as Educator. I made the mistake of diving into Thus Spake Zarathustra, which proved enormously difficult, mainly because there are so many metaphors and double rhetoric to hold in mind as Nietzsche makes his point. I've come to understand Nietzsche’s eternal return as analogous to an afterlife. Nietzsche appears to be giving his alternative to the Christian afterlife, which is enormously passive. But to transcend this life knowing well that there is no other side except an eternal recurrence of themes and one’s response to that set of circumstances. Poe said sleep resembles a little death. So, rising and awakening over and over is the closest we get to an afterlife.
Nietzsche sometimes denigrates dialectics, but his claim that the death of God implies that we ourselves must become gods is the most dialectical conclusion you could reach
I'm only part way through the article, but I just had to chime in and say that blood sausage is fucking delicious