/lit/ - Literature

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>Pessimism is Perennial Truth

>Concerning life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is no good. Always and everywhere one has heard the same sound from their mouths -- a sound full of doubt, full of melancholy, full of weariness of life, full of resistance to life. Even Socrates said, as he died: "To live -- that means to be sick a long time: I owe Asclepius the Savior a rooster." Even Socrates was tired of it. What does that evidence? What does it evince? Formerly one would have said (-- oh, it has been said, and loud enough, and especially by our pessimists): "At least something of all this must be true! The consensus of the sages evidences the truth." Shall we still talk like that today? May we? "At least something must be sick here," we retort. These wisest men of all ages -- they should first be scrutinized closely. Were they all perhaps shaky on their legs? late? tottery? decadents? Could it be that wisdom appears on earth as a raven, inspired by a little whiff of carrion?
https://praxeology.net/twilight.htm

Imagine books were never invented, you would never know that this guy (and others) lived. You could only get your knowledge from people around you. Think about the smartest man you personally know that lives around you, that would be your teacher. Now compare him to the smartest people that you can buy books from. They fucking pale in comparison.
Without books you would be doomed to mediocracy.

Almost every great philosopher we have photos of has a big forehead.
But sculptures and paintings of ancient philosophers almost all have normal or small foreheads. Didn't the artists know basic physiognomy?

"All sick and diseased people strive instinctively after a herd-organisation, out of a desire to shake off their sense of oppressive discomfort and weakness; the ascetic priest divines this instinct and promotes it; wherever a herd exists it is the instinct of weakness which has wished for the herd, and the cleverness of the priests which has organised it, for, mark this: by an equally natural necessity the strong strive as much for isolation as the weak for union..."

All his books need to be read to understand just one.

/fit/

was nietzsche proven wrong by our current modern society? we're more atheist than ever and were in a worse spot than we've ever been in. Christianity promotes a sort of stoicism that leads to great things being invented/created. indulgence just leads to a petty, niggerish hell.

I’ve seen quite a few arguments between Nietzscheans and Christians that cite The Antichrist as Nietzsche’s main critique of Christianity. In my view, this is not correct. The Antichrist was meant to be the first part of the book The Reevaluation Of All Values which was never finished. Naturally, before reading his book on how values should change in the future, one should read his recount of values changing throughout the past. It is in The Genealogy Of Morals that Nietzsche talks about his perspective on the origin of Christianity and the impact it has had on the west. I am going to share some select passages from the book in this thread.

>There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.
What did Nietzsche mean by this? My interpretation is that he's talking about light bullying but I couldn't find the phrase in my copy of BG&E so I don't know the context.

A conspiracy that has been unfolding over centuries, a despotic-parasitic archontic power structure that bleeds into all levels of reality, conspiracies within conspiracies, a truly never-ending rabbit hole. Where betrayal is affirmed, and innocence is forever lost. "What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end." Man becomes a stepping stool, an automaton for a self-proclaimed prophet of the future, it's all futile. An all-encompassing metaphysik will always remain incomplete, a hole will always be left for the outside to come in. Existence is riddled with treachery, deception, and illusions...O how right were those Orientalists. All is flux but nothing is new under the sun either, how paradoxical. Most are lost in a structure that was built for collapse, a collapse that is never-ending...humanity is a tragedy, inheritors of the first true tragedy being the light-bringer Prometheus but is it not all-too-human to forget, to forget his brother Epimetheus who unwisely accepted Pandora's Box. We are curated by a black box immersed in a simulacrum that is untouchable. Ghosts and spirits of nye emerging once again as we remain hypnotized. We stretch our bows back and let the arrow fly into a sea of darkness, only some remain that hold the flickering flame of their arrow in this dark tunnel. Catastrophe is not uncommon to the human being, deluge upon deluge, death is our lot. What is Eternal? Is the Eternal a cruel joke as well, another psyop to put the faithful saints in a black box of hope? Who knows? Until our destruction, whether brought upon us by ourselves or by the so-called "gods" let's achieve a sense of calm that is envied upon even by the gods, to be able to withdraw and endure the horrifying storms of Poseidon and the hellfire's of Hades, millennia upon millennia.

God is dead. Dead! Don't you fucking get it? And we killed him!

What is there to refute if somebody desires to be the last man?

Cuckoldry is good and just.

half of his philosophy consists of ironic shitposts

Would it be possible for a highly sophisticated artificial intelligence like Skynet from the Terminator serie to solve the problems of modernity and nihilism? Is the Ubermensch actually a machine?