/lit/ - Literature

>>16992218
>>16992251
not him, but ill prove that it can be used well, but do you guys seriously not know how to use meter?

Alas a lass has passed but 'hind a glass,
i cannot reach to touch that nightly hair,
as purple shimmers off a ravens coat,
yet skin akin to dovesilk slim; the air,
that both alike forebears their flight and pass,
is filled with joy and scent, through cross a moat

i dont want this thread to die though im not op

>>9041114

not quite that the liers will rule the truthers. its rather there are those who recognize that all things are lies/self-stories we tell ourselves, either individually or collectively, and rather than receding from this lack of truth in fear or offloading the challenge of confronting it head-on unto some pre-given ideology (anything from christianity, capitalism, post-modernism, and utilitarianism onward), the "overmen" look into the abyss, laugh, and build their own lies. but instead of having the distance from that lie that one would have to, say, saying something like "i have a billion dollars), this type of lie is deeper: it is the capacity to live out your own, self-made illusion with PASSION and SINCERITY, such that you both see it as a product of your labor AND as something that is fully "true" in itself
there is essentially no category of "truther" for nietzsche--the "final men"--e.g. the "hollow men" --are the ones who basically live out their lives in unreflexive soma, consuming "easy" and "pop" culture at the expense of those true human challenges that nearly kill you, but sharpen you in the survival

so as far as if you can tell--you can. nietzsche has a powerful moment before his (in)famous and totally off-quoted and misunderstood "death of god" speech. the operative paragraph in "the gay science" is not paragraph 125, but 124, where nietzsche talks about how people will CLAIM that god has died in modernity (where we are now), but they are in fact to weak to live out the consequences--e.g. to take the place of god, to become gods in themselves through this world-building-lying-illusion-making that i mentioned above. so the majority of people--the so-called "herd," the "masses," etc.--are in fact born incompatible with the requirements of living out the life of an overman--e.g. most people are born to be ruled, with a minority (the overmen) destined to rule them. mind you, like hegel, nietzsche totally rejects the actual eradication of the enemy (see carl schmitt later on), and would radically reject hitler's "final solution" and would utterly bemoan the shoah.

does that begin to clarify? there are no "truthers" vs "liers"--all men lie, just some lies are better than others, e.g. they emanate from, and return to, the enlightened self

>>9041200

you are a joke. please, please stop.