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Post by Arlon10 on May 20, 2020 0:20:50 GMT
Walt Whitman said that to have great poets there must be great audiences. Nietzsche had an awful lot of poor audiences. I too don't know much about him, but I suspect that was partly his fault. I'm guessing he was wrong and fired people up about wrong. His "success" might be the result of having much learning and ease of language. Perhaps he made dummies feel smart. Remember Newt Gingrich? Many people thought he was especially intelligent. He did in fact have a large vocabulary and used it with ease. His ideas were not however all that special. You’ve never read much Nietzsche, “don’t know much about him,” and yet did you know you would not have the great philosophy of the New Republican Party found in such popular right wing books like Atlas Shrugged without him? If you want a crash course into Nietzsche, read Beyond Good and Evil. And along with Freud and Marx, he was one of the Masters of Suspicion. You like suspecting things of not really being what they are because you have a unique vision, so I think the philosophy of the New Morality would interest you. What have you got to lose? I've read Atlas Shrugged and it does not represent capitalist, conservative or any right wing ideals well. It is more of an unfair "caricature" of them.
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