/lit/ - Literature

>>20295877
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>>18446429
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>>18366655
Nietszche on Socialism

>Socialism—as the logical conclusion of the tyranny of the least and the dumbest, i.e., those who are superficial, envious, and three-quarters actors—is indeed entailed by "modern ideas" and their latent anarchism; but in the tepid air of democratic well-being the capacity to reach conclusions, or to finish, weakens. One follows—but one no longer sees what follows. Therefore socialism is on the whole a hopeless and sour affair; and nothing offers a more amusing spectacle than the contrast between the poisonous and desperate faces but by today's socialists—and to what wretched and pinched feelings their style bears witness!—and the harmless lambs' happiness of their hopes and desiderata. Nevertheless, in many places in Europe they may yet bring off occasional coups and attacks: there will be deep “rumblings” in the stomach of the next century, and the Paris commune, which has its apologists and advocates in Germany, too, was perhaps no more than a minor indigestion compared to what is coming* But there will always be too many who have possessions for socialism to signify more than an attack of sickness— and those who have possessions are of one mind on one article of faith: “one must possess something in order to be something.” But this is the oldest and healthiest of all instincts: I should add, “one must want to have more than one has in order to become more*” For this is the doctrine preached by life itself to all that has life: the morality of development. To have and to want to have more—growth, in one word—that is life itself. In the doctrine of socialism there is hidden, rather badly, a “will to negate life”; the human beings or races that think up such a doctrine must be bungled. Indeed, I should wish that a few great experiments might prove that in a socialist society life negates itself, cuts of! its own roots. The earth is large enough and man still sufficiently unexhausted; hence such a practical instruction and demonstratio ad absurdum would not strike me as undesirable, even if it were gained and paid for with a tremendous expenditure of human lives.

>>18166040
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>Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans; we know very well how far off we live. 'Neither by land nor by sea will you find the way to the Hyperboreans'—Pindar already knew this about us. Beyond the north, ice, and death—our life, our happiness. We have discovered happiness, we know the way, we have found the exit out of the labyrinth of thousands of years. Who else has found it?

>Modern man perhaps? 'I have got lost; I am everything that has got lost,' sighs modern man. This modernity was our sickness: lazy peace, cowardly compromise, the whole virtuous uncleanliness of the modern Yes and No. … Rather live in the ice than among modern virtues and other south winds! We were intrepid enough, we spared neither ourselves nor others; but for a long time we did not know where to turn with our intrepidity. We became gloomy, we were called fatalists. Our fatum—abundance, tension, the damming of strength. We thirsted for lightning and deeds and were most remote from the happiness of the weakling, 'resignation.' In our atmosphere was a thunderstorm; the nature we are became dark—for we saw no way. Formula for our happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.

>>18109890
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>>17972054
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>'Gay Science': this signifies the saturnalia of a mind that has patiently resisted a terrible, long pressure - patiently, severely, coldly, without yielding, but also without hope - and is now all of a sudden attacked by hope, by hope for health, by the intoxication of recovery. Is it any wonder that in the process much that is unreasonable and foolish comes to light, much wanton tenderness, lavished even on problems that have a prickly hide, not made to be fondled and lured? This entire book is really nothing but an amusement after long privation and powerlessness, the jubilation of returning strength, of a reawakened faith in a tomorrow and a day after tomorrow, of a sudden sense and anticipation of a future, of impending adventures, of reopened seas, of goals that are permitted and believed in again.
BASED BASED
I almost cried

Nietzsche´s pretty explicit about subverting Zoroaster's moral dualism in Ecce Homo, "Why I Am a Destiny" §3, and some historians argue Gavaevodata is based on Zoroaster's criticism of animal abuse by steppe warlords.

Thus Spake Zarathustra is absolute trash and subverts the message of the holy Gathas. When Zoroaster saw a cow get abused, he was filled by the serene, tranquil light of Ohrmazd and thus wrote Gathas, seeking to promote compassion and care for sentient beings. When Nietzsche wrote Thus Spake Zarathustra, he did it with the intent to mock the Gathas' central message of moral dualism, but ultimately, it was Nietzsche who was mocked as he realized his folly over his antinomian druj. He was put into a similar situation as Zoroaster but ultimately had a mental breakdown.

>>17836798
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>>17835640
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>>17776190
>connecting with God makes you happy, having a family makes you happy

MAKING GREAT WORKS OF ART MAKES YOU HAPPY

>>17023374
>Also, repent.

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>>17012197
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>>16956093
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>>16730662
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>>16715829
>If I were atheist I would have killed myself long ago, not because my life is miserable but because the level of suffering and despair that conscious atheism entails would be overwhelming

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