/lit/ - Literature

>>22256705

>>22252860
>my reaction to this image

>Overhuman

>Reject Christian morality and you become…LE SUPERMAN!

>GET UP AND CONQUER THE WORLD
>IMPOSE YOUR WILL ON OTHERS
>FUCK YOUR INNANTE RELIGIOUS UPBRINGING
>YOU ARE A GODDAMN SLAVE
>NIHILISM IS LE DISEASE!
>YOU ARE WORTHLESS

Why does Nietzsche's works sound like an angry annoying ex-girlfriend?

>>22020138
>>22014099
>>22014166
>t. weakling BTFO watching le horse getting beaten

>I am the greatest ever. If you don't agree, you have le ressentiment
How to refute this?

>On the lack of noble manners. Soldiers and leaders still have far better relationships with each other than workers and employers. So far at least, culture that rests on a military basis still towers above all so-called industrial culture: the latter in its present shape is altogether the most vulgar form of existence that has yet existed. Here one is at the mercy of brute need; one wants to live and has to sell oneself, but one despises those who exploit this need and buy the worker. Oddly, submission to powerful, frightening, even terrible persons, like tyrants and generals, is not experienced as nearly so painful as is this submission to unknown and uninteresting persons, which is what all the luminaries of industry are. What the workers see in the employer is usually only a cunning, bloodsucking dog of a man who speculates on all misery; and the employer's name, shape, manner, and reputation are a matter of complete indifference to them. The manufacturers and entrepreneurs of business probably have been too deficient so far in all those forms and signs of a higher race that alone make a person interesting. If the nobility of birth showed in their eyes and gestures, there might not be any socialism of the masses. For at bottom the masses are willing to submit to slavery of any kind, if only the higher ups constantly legitimize themselves as higher, as born to command - by having noble manners. The most common man feels that nobility cannot be improvised and that one has to honor in it the fruit of long periods of time. But the lack of higher manners and the notorious vulgarity of manufacturers with their ruddy, fat hands give him the idea that it is only accident and luck that have elevated one person above another. Well, then, he reasons: let us try accident and luck! Let us throw the dice! And thus socialism is born.
-Aphorism from The Gay Science

>>21913619
This breaks Shitzscheans' minds.

>>21891311
Why are you even dignifying Shitzscheans with attention to begin with, anon? Did you really expect anything else from a man doing a master of the second veil hand sign and abusing his member to death?

>Dude Greeks were superior because they saw the tragedy of life from an aesthetic perspective and not mor-ACK
>According to Aristotle, it had become so common in ancient Greece to say "It is best not to be born" that it was considered a cliché!
This guy was wrong in everything. In addition, aesthetics is often a romanticization of life. In real life men are not exempt from excrement and urine, flatulence, menstrual blood and semen, sweat, mucus, vomit and pus do we really need? How much more human waste do we need to process? How many more corpses do we have to get rid of? It would be an aesthetic improvement if there were no people.

>Ive seem to have poopied my diaper

What book should I read if I wake up in cold sweats with severe chest pain, kidney pain and dizziness? It feels better when I breathe slowly.

Why does he contradict himself so much?

>>21531482
>For a period of several weeks in 1866, Nietzsche experienced intense sexual fantasies of being a female and decided to undergo gender transition. He arranged to meet with a psychiatrist in the UK, but changed his mind in the waiting room and did not disclose his reason for making the appointment. Afterwards, enraged, he considered killing the psychiatrist and other people whom he hated. Nietzsche described this episode as a "major turning point" in his life:[27][28][29] "I felt disgusted about what my uncontrolled sexual cravings had almost led me to do. And I felt humiliated, and I violently hated the psychiatrist. Just then there came a major turning point in my life. Like a Phoenix, I burst from the ashes of my despair to a glorious new hope."[28] Nietzsche returned to Weimar shortly after this incident.[29][30]

>unambiguously exalts war, militarism, cruelty, and subjugation as the highest ideals of someone who overcomes humanity
>somehow permanently injures his sternum getting on a horse wrong which severely limits his mobility
>"Uh and actually the o-overman can just be a really s-smart guy too!"

>That which does not kill me makes me stro- ACK!

Why did such a strong, virile, overcomer of man who, in his own words had:"... war coursing through [his] veins" allow himself to get -ACK'd? Shouldn't a badass blonde beast conqueror simply overcome having a genetic hereditary predisposition to crippling depression and cognitive decline? Why didn't he just wage war on the defective internal components of his brain and subjugate them or put them to the sword? Why did he compromise his Apollonian-Diyonysian nature and allow his will to power be compromised? Or is being an invalid vegetable taken care of by your sister a fulfillment of the overnan's will to power?

Chesterton on Nietzsche

>Nietzsche had some natural talent for sarcasm: he could sneer, though he could not laugh; but there is always something bodiless and without weight in his satire, simply because it has not any mass of common morality behind it. He is himself more preposterous than anything he denounces. But, indeed, Nietzsche will stand very well as the type of the whole of this failure of abstract violence. The softening of the brain which ultimately overtook him was not a physical accident. If Nietzsche had not ended in imbecility, Nietzscheism would end in imbecility. Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot. Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain.

Roger Scruton on Nietzsche

>Nietzsche himself has become a kind of idol. Despite his antagonism towards democracy and mass culture, despite his unashamedly racist attack on the Germans and all things German, despite his advocacy of ‘health’ and strength against the ‘sickness’ of compassion, despite his contempt for socialists, vegetarians, feminists and women generally – despite committing every sin condemned by the morality of ‘political correctness’, Nietzsche is now a cult figure.

Even Bertrand Russell has an insightful critique

>I dislike Nietzsche because he likes the contemplation of pain, because he erects conceit into a duty, because the men whom he most admires are conquerors, whose glory is cleverness in causing men to die. But I think the ultimate argument against his philosophy, as against any unpleasant but internally self-consistent ethic, lies not in an appeal to facts, but in an appeal to emotions. Nietzsche despises universal love; I feel it the motive power to all that I desire as regards the world. His followers have had their innings, but we may hope that it is coming rapidly to an end.

>>21375564
this was him, wasn't it?

>>21355912
>Nietchud Unironically

Yo so why aren't all the badass Nietzscheans on this board going over to Ukraine to fight?

It's the first European war of consequence since WW2 (nobody cares about balkan regular rape/genocides). It's probably the only adventurous war you'll have in your lifetime while you're still young enough to fight and conquer

>"eerr n-no, the ukrainians said they don't want anymore foreign volunteers"
So? Is that really all it takes to stop the ubermensch? You guys like Bronze Age faggot who talk a big game about conquering weaklings with a militia and putting degenerates to the sword and nows your chance.. but you're at home posting. Why?

Damn, sounds like you guys are kinda like LARPing pussies... I mean even redditors went over and fought

>steals his most famous phrase "God is dead" from Mainländer
>only argument he does against Mainländer is call him a virgin and not a real German
Tell me why is this guy somehow considered a respectable philosopher. Why do people who act all elitist about muh real philosophy still rate this guy? And btw he also stole the horse story from Crime & Punishment, like wtf.

>ietzsche über Schopenhauer: „Ich gehöre zu den Lesern Schopenhauers, welche, nachdem sie die erste Seite von ihm gelesen haben, mit Bestimmtheit wissen, dass sie alle Seiten lesen werden und auf jedes Wort hören werden, das er überhaupt gesagt hat.“
Lmao what a chudcel