The Great Spectacle | The Gay Science #4 (I.30 - I.44)

[@MrSkypelessons]

You have a great talent for discussing Nietzsche. Thanks so much. Always a pleasure. And yes, I do live in a permanent state of distrust. And yes, I am driven by a malicious hatred.

[@untimelyreflections]

Thank you! 🙏

[@MrSkypelessons]

@@untimelyreflections Thank you! I do love your ideas and your way with words. Looking forward to the next episode

[@ItsGettingNearDawn]

​@MrSkypelessons, nice to see you here, all the best 👍

[@maximilianthiel8485]

1:34:04 I listen to your casts while pruning my trees or right now sweeping the floor in the greatest bliss …. As I work for my city thus no corporate interest …. It’s just me of my own will crafting beautiful nature …. While being allowed to listen to your podcast …. I’m truly blessed

[@wes5614]

Changed taste is one of my favorites. It made me think of punk music which was so abrasive and different at the time but punks asserted themselves with such overwhelming confidence and power that eventually they changed people's taste. How could someone like the sound of shrill guitar feedback? Somehow, I aquired a taste for music so loud that it's harmful to my ears. Schopenhauer would've said I'm an idiot! I love Nietzsche because you can just flip through practically all of his books and just stop where you see something interesting. While this is my favorite book of his I never read it from front to back. Your podcast has really helped me get more out of this awesome book, thanks!

[@isaacbarratt854]

at approx 1:30:00 an assertion is made that the creative type would prefer boredom over a task that gives no satisfaction. This definitely applies to myself: if I don't enjoy it I cant bring myself to do it; most jobs need to be dangerous or difficult lest they stop being worth my time. my time: I spend mostly doing nothing

[@brendanerickson2363]

This is my favorite podcast on YT! Thank you so much for the great content!

[@TheGreatness-gg1jx]

Thanks for discussing this book. The question of "money" isn't so much a question of "what would we do without" as much as it is a question of "how do we establish and convey Value", of a person, an object, an idea? As long as their are questions of Value there will be some form of monetary/energy exchange. "Politics" as you're describing it, has only existed outside of America for a few decades. Monarchy/Tyranny was the norm. But in Rome and Athens, "politics" wasn't entertainment, it was the key cog in the machine of the Polis. In Rome in particular, it was Rome. The people we today call "celebrities" were literally 3rd Class citizens, only slightly above slaves, who imitated the Optimates in their plays and poems.

[@alexanderleuchte5132]

I would also highly recommend the three part documantary series "The Power of Nightmares" by Adam Curtis, which while reflecting on the "war on terror" era is still exemplary for the mechanics of the politics of fear which we are still experiencing maybe even more totalitarian than back then

[@Villainilla]

Always a treat, thanks for the video!

[@untimelyreflections]

Thank you! 🙏

[@TheWilliamHoganExperience]

So once again he’s untimely. Nietzsche pre-figures the modern concept of “Frenemy” 😂 “I’ve always struggled with friendships when they become transactional or competitive. Who needs that crap? Life is hard enough. We are surrounded by those who want to exploit us for our resources, or beat us down so they can feel superior. It’s bad enough when strangers and bosses and co-workers do it. But our FRIENDS? Really? Better to walk alone. But I’m autistic, so what the hell do I know 😅 ;-) Great podcast as always

[@TheWilliamHoganExperience]

As for fame being necessary to artists, I disagree. It ruins most. Artists don’t need fame. We create regardless of our circumstances or successes or failure. Regardless of indifference or celebration of our work. It’s society that needs fame in order to recognize artists. The herd is incapable of recognizing celebrating, and rewarding art for its own sake. The herd looks to the herd to know what it should like, with fame and popularity as signifier. In this regard politicians are the opposite of artists. They pander to the herd to achieve political power. When an artist panders to the crowd they lose their power. Their artistic power. Their creative power. They become politicians rather than artists. This has ruined as many great musicians as drugs and alcohol. Maybe more. Hell, it ruined Wagner didn’t it? Bono too. Don’t get me started on Roger Waters or Don Henley. And I’m not just talking about their political activism. Artists make art for its own sake, and it’s why most live in isolation and poverty to some degree, unconcerned with fame or fortune. The good ones anyway…

[@Villainilla]

@@TheWilliamHoganExperience As an artist, I agree on the basis that I have no deep rooted for desire for Fame in the sense of prestige and notoriety-- but I do desire to find like minded people and share my work with at least someone, being a creative gets lonely sometimes-- even then you can't actually make something out of nothing, art has inspiration from somewhere, even the mind draws from outside itself. So it's a semantics thing because I don't really see a distinction between colloquial Fame and simple attention seeking. Interesting insight though, I agree that when an artist panders, they are bringing someone else's ego to life rather than solely their own. There is a level of give and take when it comes to the creation of art and the consumption of art. It is a performative action, regardless if it's for the self or an audience. As much as I appreciate Nietzsche's art for art's sake, art is an extension of the unconscious so it's hardly that vague. It is mythology, an ideal, a reminder.

[@AlenSchneeweiss]

Where is your art? ​@@Villainilla

[@apostletechno8794]

Hey! I very much enjoy your content, this channel has been a staple in my every day life as of late, and I very much enjoy partaking in Nietszches ideas through your interpretation and your extensions of the ideas presented. Keep up the great work, from a stranger across the globe who greatly appreciate what you're doing!

[@diegof8239]

Cannot thank you enough for these interpretations and explanations. Loved that you included more aphorisms in this one 👍.

[@aronlazarhargitai8680]

I read Book II before this episode, and I think we have highlighted the same passages. The Gay Science is a treasury, just as Nietzsche's other works.

[@afk2514]

"Behold me too! Herald of lightning, a dark cloud's heavy drop, but this lightning is called Übermensch."

[@tarequesharquawy9091]

I've come across your pod a few months ago and have been a big fan since. This is the first time I catch an episode that soon and it warms my heart. Thank you!

[@brendanseanmurphy]

so good, thank you!

[@danmarco7126]

Such a great episode

[@alexandrefelipealmeidacost347]

Very nice episode, as always. Ive seen youve done videos comparing Nietzsche to other thinkers and i wanted to ask if you ever intend on doing a video on Kierkegaard

[@xxmsp91]

I just saw an ad for Jordan Peterson's 8 part series take on Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. I have a feeling he's gonna basterdize it, and the selfish part of me don't want him spreading the book to the masses.

[@txikitofandango]

What you're saying about Nietzsche around 52:00 sounds a lot like the dialectics of history, that an event is given significance retroactively. I never connected that to Nietzsche somehow. I wonder how Nietzsche would treat the "death of the author". On the one hand, a work of literature can be an expression of a great author, his strivings and values. On the other hand, his work may be an Event of art history, whose significance will not be known to him regardless of intent

[@dashabateman4409]

Do you upload these to podcast apps? I am going on a long drive and I'm converting them to mp3 haha. Is there a better way to download these? I love your work!

[@untimelyreflections]

It’s on spotify, link in description 👍. You can also find it on apple podcasts and others, just search The Nietzsche Podcast

[@diegof8239]

Try podbean if you're on Android.

[@life42theuniverse]

My hypothesis Tiberius ruled as a spectator because it was a time of recession caused by a shortage of lumber or overpopulated empire.

[@odinata]

Lol the very first line describes trump perfectly! How timely and prescient

[@languagegame410]

what's the title of that painting, Keeg?!

[@untimelyreflections]

Jean Leon Gerome,”Pollice Verso”

[@languagegame410]

@@untimelyreflections thanks!

[@XanDionysus]

"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them." - Hume And there was a philosopher-king figure Solomon who expressed a pessimistic outlook where the socratic view had no influence: "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity."

[@whoaitstiger]

I'm just imagining holding up a queue, explaining to the guy at the welfare office that my "idleness is resolute ... for thinkers and all sensitive spirits, boredom is that disagreeable windless calm of the soul that precedes a happy voyage and cheerful wind." 🤣

[@benquinneyiii7941]

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[@bradrandel1408]

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[@h.k8063]

why is the series called gay science?

[@user-qc3dn2el6j]

I think it’s cuz the author is gay? Idk

[@whoaitstiger]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Science

[@Knaan-ro6eo]

That’s the title of the book lol

[@ggrthemostgodless8713]

gay = happy = content in life = how to live a happy fulfilled life That's how Nietzsche meant it, the word had THAT, ONLY, meaning until mid of the last century. Same with Nietzsche's "SUPERMAN", they had to translate it to Overman, or Uberman for MODERN ears, who immediately link superman to the cartoon character.

[@whoaitstiger]

@@ggrthemostgodless8713 More than simply happy, it meant a special kind of boisterous, exuberant, devil-may-care happiness. A lamb would be frolic in a field gayly for example. That is why it was adopted for as slang for homosexuality - from the stereotype that homosexual men are extremely outgoing and, well, gay all the time.

[@PeterGregoryKelly]

Everyone can use Nietzsche, even people opposed to each other. A little bit like religion. How many Jesuses are there with each contradicting Jesus having gospel support. I have even heard that in some parts of Asia there is a thing called :Prosperity Buddhism" as strange as that sounds .

[@PeterGregoryKelly]

Nietzsche is actually quite the psychologist and better at explaining human nature than almost all present day psychologists. What sort of a therapist he'd make I might think average or less but as an analysist of human motivation and theoretician, first rate.

[@waynesmathers3147]

Ive fallen through the cracks, i'm a ship adrift & god is dead

[@voidoceanskye266]

Find Xanadu. Break your fast on honeydew. Drink the milk of paradise.

[@chauno1234]

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[@kennethanderson8827]

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[@Voidapparate]

Name of the painting or its painter?

[@untimelyreflections]

Pollice Verso by Jean Leon Gerome