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[Anonymous No.8601799]

Why do pseud teenagers love Nietzsche so much?

[Anonymous No.8601807]

The same reason they love Fight Club and A Clockwork Orange.

Because they don't understand it.

[Anonymous No.8601813]

>>8601807
There's something so humorous about how every Nietzsche fan claims he understands nihilism whilst other Nietzsche fans don't.

[Anonymous No.8601828]

>>8601799
It's just a phase. Most people hear about him in their youth and flock to him. The people who actually care about philosophy and want to understand it recognize that he is just a stepping stone in its history and start with the Greeks

[Anonymous No.8601869]

Easily exploitable due to his writing style. Plus, he shit on Christianity a lot, which most atheist teens dig.

What difference does it make?

[Anonymous No.8601887]

babby's first nihilist philosopher

[Anonymous No.8601901]

[Anonymous No.8601907]

>>8601901

[Anonymous No.8602033]

>>8601901
>>8601907
more?

[Anonymous No.8602066]

They haven't actually read him.

[Anonymous No.8602072]

>>8601813
>whilst
Die

[Anonymous No.8602085]

>>8601799
You know who's even more pseud than those edgy teens? OP's that make these threads. Yeah Nietzsche is a meme, but it's because he's really damn good. There's a reason why Heidegger, Deleuze, Bataille, Derrida, Klossowksi etc. all dedicated entire works to him.

[Anonymous No.8602099]

>>8602033
existential comics. look it up. great webcomic

[Anonymous No.8602324]

>>8601901
Who is the stoic?

[Anonymous No.8602332]

>>8602324
Nevermind I am retarded, literally says it in the first sentence.

[ΟΥΤΙΣ No.8602338]

Because he rebels against the social order and you don't need to be well versed in philosophy to parse him.

[Anonymous No.8602401]

[Anonymous No.8602403]

>>8602401

[Anonymous No.8602418]

>>8601799
Because teenage years are when you start to learn what a will to power is.

[Anonymous No.8602429]

>>8602338
>rebels against the social order
no
>you don't need to be well versed in philosophy to parse him
no
>>8602066
this usually. or if they have they assume he's being edgier than he is and it's all bombast like above.

[Anonymous No.8602431]

Misunderstood and easily characterised and simplified. The answer should be obvious, and Nietzsche himself has commented on the nature of himself being widely misunderstood.

[ΟΥΤΙΣ No.8602437]

>>8602429
Yes, Nietzsche's is a philosophy of the individual against the "herd' and modern morality and mores. He is also much easier to parse than philosophers like Kant and Hegel.

[Anonymous No.8602440]

German, pissed off, raving lunatic, said "God is dead," and teenagers love "dangerous" philosophers with a letter from the end of the alphabet in their name, it's exciting and foreign to them. See also: Marx.

[Anonymous No.8602450]

>>8602437
>a philosophy of the individual against the "herd'
no.
>modern morality and mores
no.
>easier to parse than Kant and Hegel
did you ever think that reguritating memes might be against your flawed understanding of Nietzsche and highlight you haven't read either of those?

[Anonymous No.8602451]

>>8602429
>describing a critic of Nietzsche as bombast
That's basically neechees whole career tho

[Anonymous No.8602455]

>>8602451
most of what they see as bombast is references to earlier philosophy they haven't read. so they assume it's a neat sound phrase that ultimately means nothing when usually it's an in-joke.

[Anonymous No.8602457]

Its not a phase, Dad!

[Anonymous No.8602461]

>>8602455
*sounding

[Anonymous No.8602466]

>>8601807
>>8601813
>>8602431
>because he's just so misunderstood by everyone
>just like me

[ΟΥΤΙΣ No.8602468]

>>8602450
Nietzsche sees modern morality as vestiges of Christian morality on suicide watch. Read The Will to Power