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I think that it is entirely possible for the good to desire the good, the beautiful, to desire the beautiful,. Even that desire is the suffering of want at some basic level too, the thirst to be more. better, perfected and whole even. Eros, love, desiring the beauty of the other, is transformative more than the suffering that is the shadow that Eros leaves behind. Yaweh hungered for Jerusalem thusly. Eros is a seeker of beauty in the darkest of places too, to see the beauty in the fallen, the tenacity of the foolish, the relentlessness of life even in the smallest place. Eros seeks those who desire to be seen to be beautiful. Being loved is transformative. Giving love fulfills the meaning of beauty and wisdom .

I've heard that there are two words that scare Jungians and other Folk Psychologists: E l i m i n a t i v e M a t e r i a l i s m

Vice and luxury are not causes, but symptoms. The cause is the desire for comfort that breeds complacency and sloth.

The one example I can think of where more knowledge might decrease your power is if you also consider truth to be a primary virtue. One specific example: you are selling a car and everything is working great. However one day you discover there is something wrong with it that might not be immediately obvious to a buyer: let’s say that when the gas gauge says there are 50 miles left, it actually runs out of gas. If you are being honest, you may need to get it repaired, or mention it, which in either event would logically seem to lower your “power” at least in terms of net money gained.

You do great work! I really enjoy listening

7:28 People know Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of the people," but not that he says two paragraphs later, "The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself." - Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right Marx wanted man's ego to be 'lord of the universe' as stated here. Marx was also obsessed with Mephistopheles in Faust, who you mentioned was a trickster figure in the archetype video; Marx's favourite quote of Mephistopheles being, "Everything that exists deserves to perish." I'm not religious, but it's just fascinating to see this.

Fire episode. No one understand “not having free will”

Alchemy of State aka woke

Your voice is so soothing before bed it’s honestly magical lol

These podcasts are amazing. The clarity of presentation unparralelled. Their importance as great as importance can be. Nietzsce was truly misunderstood. He knew he would be. But he knew also that in the future, after unimaginable sufferings, perhaps mankind would finally understand him. How can we forget without extracting the pound of flesh due to us as Shakespeares Schylock wanted? Only by forgiving. To forgive is to forget. That is the final solution to the jewish problem, and to the problem of the jews. To all problems ultimately. It is mankinds only hope. Nietzsche provides the necessary understanding, which is to understand the necessity of the historical process. Like Martin Luther we couldn't do otherwise, even the worst criminal did the best he could, crushed by his unfathomable suffering. Noone is guilty, or everyone is. Everyone acts in necessary accordance with their degree and kind of traumatizaton. Indeed the criminal is a madman, mad with suffering. The only cure to the hatred caused by our suffering is forgiveness, and that is only possible through understanding. As Leonard Cohen said in his last song that he was working on in his head before he died: "If you have to go crazy, go crazy with love!" I heard it where William Blake saw his parade of fairies, and the ghost of a flea, in the imagination. But as Robert Anton Wilsons exorcist friend pointed out "Demons are an unimaginative lot!. He was a succesful exorsist, even though he was not a priest, and merely did it as a fun hobby. Why? Because unlike most catholic priests he was not a hypocrite. Demons hate hypocrites above all! For it was because they had to live among hypocrites that they became so evil that they ended up in hell. A truly good man they love, and will listen to. I heard of a buddhist munk who exorcized a demon merely by talking rationally to him, and convincing him to take refuge in the three jewels and the five precepts. On doing this the demon, who had been comissioned to kill an innocent girl by a scorned suitor, knew it would die. Even demons in hell cling to their lifes, such as it is. But on taking refuge in the buddha and the ethical precepts the demon vanished from the girl. It probably vanished from hell also. As Evola was a Super fascist, so too Wilhelm Reich was a Super Communist. If one understands Nietzsche, and if one understands Wilhelm Reich who was as influenced by Nietzsche as by Marx, one understand a lot. A lot! Reich who discovered and gave name to "the emotional plague of mankind," a.k.a. the spirit of resentment, the sexual neurosis in its most malignant form, as the hatred of life and everything natural and living, he who discovered its cure in vegetotheraphy, the cure to "mechanical fucking," who discovered the possibility of the restoration of mans "orgastic potency," his capability to have an orgasm of love rather than a mere ejaculation, an orgasm which is functionally identical to religious extacy, he who discovered above all, the life energy and mans natural original way of making love: "the loving embrace between man and woman", proto tantric sex. And if one in addition understands the last book of the Super Fascist Evola on the metaphysics of sex, and if one understands the unimaginably important Super Darwinism of Jeremy Griffith, which is also much inspired by Nietzsche offcourse, then one can attain to the perspective of "the Pseudoscience of Totality." One must simultaneously be a right wing extremist and a left wing extremist. Then one gets the largest possible wingspan, then one becomes not a centrist, but truly centered. Then one can soar higher than anyone before. I soared high above the mountain with the eagles, and saw Nietzsche walking alone there in the mountains below, alone and distraught. I called unto him: "Behold! I bring good tidings! The Messiah is near!" He fell to his knees in tears exclaiming: "Finally! I have been waiting so long!" I've been long contemplating a book. The idea came to me in the forest, upon ingesting some mushrooms, admittedly. I was contemplating the question of hatred, when an innocent female voice said to me: "Why don't you just stop hating then?" Then a sort of extacy occured, and my body was flooded with love pouring out from the heart. The whole pantheon of every writer I had read came to me, and promised me to help write the book. The book to end all books. The book with the many titles. One for each hexagram in the I Ching. One of the titles is this: "The Pseudoscience of Totality! The art of penetration! The art of engulfment! An orgonomic sex manual! Or learning how to grok!" Another of the titles is this: "Apocalypse Now! The Great Unveiling! Behold a pale Horsecock! The last stance of the Bonobo!" But the main title is this: The Great Reframe! Return to innocense! Return to Counterspace!" As leonard Cohen said: "Anyone who says I'm not a jew, is not a jew. The verdict is final" Only a jew could have possibly understood what I have understood. You can't deny! Above all, I am not a denier! Who am I tho say all this? I am certainly not a demon! The proof of that seems to be in the pudding of my imagination. -M (Dionysos and the crucified)

A most excellent episode!

All that you'll ever need to know about nietzche is that he was dysgenic little sheet with autoimmune issues that advocated for rule of force and survival of the fittest.

One significant factor contributing to Nietzsche's madness is the profound conflict between his ideals and his personal limitations. He championed a philosophy of unapologetic acceptance of life, yet he was an exceptionally sensitive individual. This sensitivity is evident in his writing at times. In "Ecce Homo," he extols the concept of *amor fati*-the love of fate-but in the same work, he also states that the only excuse for God is that He doesn’t exist, revealing a deep-seated resentment towards the world. This internal contradiction between his philosophical aspirations and personal disposition likely exacerbated his mental struggles.

Your musings do great honour to the source.

Thanks for posting this. I am just starting the audio now. This is something I have always wanted to learn more about ever since I 'heard about....Which was only in the last few years or so surprisingly

Remember to be careful when reading Nietzsche because he will stuck to your head forever, and what is that Z really tought was go out and find yourself, not to be just his disciple and blind fallower. I kind of hate why so many people don' t challenge the man enough, nowdays " philosophers" and academians plays too much on the safety ground. I bet Nietzsche would have laugh at you, for taking his words too granted or without doubt. Challenge is the key, and if can' t do that, forget it, you won' t find anything new. But nice conversation anyway, so thank you.

Awesome perspective. Free will vs Determinism is a false dichotomy. I like that. Believing in Fate seems pretty based.

Who is still a democrat? Lol

Margaret ... the only TRUE Emerson acolyte, as Henry James maintained.

See Richardson, The Mind On Fire. Forget his title on Thoreau. My people. AH, You are reading from R!!!!

So good

When thinking about Nietzsche's claims about the production of art, I wonder whether his sample is too parochial, limited to a certain geography and historical tradition, i.e. the Hellenic. The passage where Nietzsche stresses the "indispensable ecstasy" which is the "outcome of all great desires" is a case in point. As a universal generalization about the production or performance of art, this seems false. I doubt, for example, whether this applies to all of the varieties of modern art, e.g. Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollack, or Andy Warhol; or to art of other cultures, e.g. Daoist painting. But even if we limit the claim to music, the claim seems doubtful. Not all modern western music seems to be the product of ecstasy and passion, e.g. the 12 tone music of the early 20th century, John Cage, and the minimalism of Reich, Glass, Part and others. If we expand our attention beyond the West, there is e.g. Indian classical musical music. When I hear the sarod, the Japanese koto or the Javanese gamelan, I never think of the performers as wanting "to impress their passions" on me. Nietzsche's aesthetic is clearly prescriptive: he has an agenda of promoting a new type of music, art, and philosophy, even if he has regrets about his early Wagnerian project. Schopenhauer's aesthetic seems to have wider scope. Not only does it accommodate western art, I suspect that it would also accommodate the more contemplative spirit of eastern art and music. He not only enjoyed playing the flute and listening to Rossini, he also enjoyed contemplating his Bronze Buddha.

Outstanding!!!

Everyone is different and has varying physiological responses to different foods, but low calorie diet actually is increasingly data-linked with longevity. Nietzsche might be committing his own error, as low metabolism is affected positively by lower calorie intake (and higher calorie intake can increase metabolism). This is clearly not the only factor. Causality as a principle is still not put to bed, despite the efforts of the Germans. Nietzsche’s “solution” to the fork between submission corrupt (religious/moral) authority OR complete Schopenhauerian pessimism and nihilism was to embrace the “will to power” and extreme egoism, essentially. This is, in many ways, an inevitable result of the ego-centered starting point of Descartes, the cogito, where the only thing we can accept as “real” is the individual self. Even though Nietzche criticized Descartes (and everyone else, really 🤷🏻‍♂️) the snowball effect through the generations is obvious. That suggestion itself is anti-deterministic, despite his many deterministic (and very insightful, in some cases) criticisms of free will, eg drives competing, myriad factors, affirming causality as a principle prior to human perception, etc. -- Also, Plato opens the republic with a conversation about old age, presenting it as a time for freedom from libidinal and “will to power” drives, ie a time of peace, relaxation, and contentment, without being compelled by maddening human passions.

hmm, seems to me nietzsche has become not the antichrist but rather the horse of turin & i beg the world to stop. i imagine an endeavor to de-isolate neitzsche and put him situ as a social being interacting with ideas emerging in other domains in the mid/late 19th century - especially the churn in mathematics, philosophy & religion induced with the development of set theory of George Cantor et al

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Carl Jung has saved the psyche of humanity.

I spoke to a lad he said to me, god is dead as he put a hand on my knee I said oi obi and giggle tee hee, Then he said come have fun, Na i said I'll wait 2 find Jung 🍀⌚🦍

I wonder why I always desire things that are almost satirical to the desires of others? I think its probably the desire to be individual.

If anyone wants to understand this line of thought that springs from romanticism i'd recommend listening to the excellent isiah berlin lectures on romanticism. Going from Roussoue, to Kant, then to Herder, to Nietzsche. But the idea that you cannot compartmentalize any one phenomenon of your biological totality in drives, extinct etc, comes straight from Romanticism. And that line of thinking overlaps heavily with early Marxs conception of Alienation and also a left communist sympathy in regard to how capitalism and instrumental labor is a long, historical process of turning ones self (or others) in to an alienated instrument of production that estranges oneself, and creates this rationalization of parts in property, money, objects', time, space etc. Leading to those who fetishizes this process to self-exploiting via a efficiency criteria that can then start to expand and dominate others in that process, making other labor subordinated in this institutionalized process. You'll find this kind of left communism has strong parallels with a lot of romantic and even Nietzschean thought and i think is a pretty fruitful in explaining a lot of the social psychological problems of mental health that plague modern man, and one that needs to be "course corrected" if we are to be free of the maladjustments of modernity. Where this radically delineates with Nietzsche is where and what he thinks is "vital" in human phycological drives. Painted by (like most romantics who were the wayward sons, intellectuals, and poets of a declining and displaced aristocracy with a longing for provincial feudalist social relations) the extremely reactionary notions of natural hierarchies, where as obviously any left wing value judgements are more willing to see in mens vital instincts solidarity, cooperation as a driving factor in human vital factors. Though by my sources Nietzsche oscillated between the 2 poles himself. Though those on the right will find a strong justification to "return" to feudal, theocratic, monarchical relations to "fix alienation". "the fathers stern hand to make right the world by power along". Which is ironic but that's what his brand of romanticism pushes towards. Stability through hierarchy in a cycle . Which isn't an answer to anything and more or less completely negates anything of value he had to say in deconstructing the problems with instrumental modes of becoming.

Ralph Waldo Emerson was poetic while Frederick Nietzsche was prosaic. ONE is very😁happy, the other went quite😡mad😢. Notice🧐in the picture🖼️representing this📹video, RWE is holding back a😊smile while FN is hiding a frown☹️!

people who cannot control their impulses: is because their nurtiment of the mental is trash & agressive. Their mind is hijacked. Those who get programmed by entertainment. When a man can be bored sitting with himself & connect to his own organism, his heart and his body & his gut, then he can live intuitivelynot programmed to crave the junkest of foods.

I have to say that I have several points of disagreement. It’s as always, interpretation is personal, and meaning and experience. Thanks for making me exercise in a different view. It made my conviction stronger.

Of all of Nietzsche's ideas this is actually the one that resonated with me the most, even more than his more famous ideas like the overman or eternal return.

I think the French and Spanish have a similar attitude to life as the Italian one you discussed

Seems like a rehash of eastern philosophy

For a visual on Shoupenhaurs understanding, check out the Mandlebrot Set.

Without thought we would know nothing of the reality Nietzsche claims to know. This is the same mistake he makes when he uses the Apollanian mode to elevate the Dionysical above reason.

This is one of the best podcasts for me... ❤

This is How to think properly by eliminating errors. But once we do that, and eliminate error, and conclude better ideas and ways, how do we incorporate that into a society that insist on the errors?? Per the examples given here with religion health etc... A lot of they right thinking is done or is accomplished by being alone, and yet society insist that alone is not god for you, they keep confusing alone with loneness... Alone(ness) is something I love, while "loneliness" is the longing to not be alone, longing for other people perhaps. If I were NOT alone I wonder if I could listen to this uninterrupted.