Stop Reading / Watching Tragedies

[Anonymous No.20871842]

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Tragedy and music. - Men whose disposition is fundamentally warlike,
as for example the Greeks of the age of Aeschylus, are hard to move,
and when pity does for once overbear their severity it seizes them like
a frenzy and as though a 'demonic force' - they then feel themselves
under constraint and are excited by a shudder of religious awe.
Afterwards they have their doubts about this condition; but for as
long as they are in it they enjoy the delight of the miraculous and of
being outside themselves, mixed with the bitterest wormwood of
suffering: it is a draught appropriate to warriors, something rare,
dangerous and bitter-sweet that does not easily fall to one's lot. - It is
to souls which experience pity like this that tragedy appeals, to hard
and warlike souls which are difficult to conquer, whether with fear or
with pity, but which find it useful to grow soft from time to time: but
of what use is tragedy to those who are as open to the 'sympathetic
affections' as sails to the winds! When the Athenians had grown
softer and more sensitive, in the age of Plato - ah, but how far they
still were from the emotionality of our urban dwellers! - the
philosophers were already complaining of the harmfulness of
tragedy. An age full of danger such as is even now commencing, in
which bravery and manliness become more valuable, .will perhaps
again gradually make souls so hard they will have need of tragic
poets: in the meantime, these would be a little superfluous - to put it as
mildly as possible.

Also, stop listening to music if you are a pussy:

- For music, too, there may perhaps again come a
better time ( it will certainly be a more evil one!) when artists have to
make it appeal to men strong in them selves, severe, dominated by
the dark seriousness of their own passion: but of what use is music to
the little souls of this vanishing age, souls too easily moved,
undeveloped, half-selves, inquisitive, lusting after everything!

[Anonymous No.20871961]

>>20871842
Do you not trust your own aesthetic instincts? It's moronic to read Nietzsche like he's a self-help book.

[Anonymous No.20871978]

>>20871842
OP, neither quote suggests not to ready tragedy or to listen to music. He's just saying modern stuff is made for faggots.

[Anonymous No.20872246]

>>20871842
i'll do what i want m8

[Anonymous No.20872313]

>>20871961
it's not self-help it's other-hindrance