A great exposition of the basic unreality of the reality most people live in and with: for most people it is much more comfortable to live in a lie than start all over with nothing but the reality of your self and your own careful observations/conclusions. It was the great struggle Nietzsche took upon himself and recommended for those who would be free: you may never know the ultimate truth, the entire truth about most things, but you can disinvest from obvious lies, and especially evil, ugly, debilitating, and perhaps fatal lies. You know they are lies when they offer no physical evidence, must be taken on faith, and involve some kind of extortion, moral or physical, at the hands of authority. The only faith that counts for anything is the belief that you can free yourself from this bondage.
You do realize Nietzsche was a chauvinistic pig that was in-love with his sister, right?
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“It is obvious that in his day-dreams he is a warrior, not a professor; all of the men he admires were military. His opinion of women, like every man's, is an objectification of his own emotion towards them, which is obviously one of fear. "Forget not thy whip"-- but nine women out of ten would get the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women, and soothed his wounded vanity with unkind remarks. ...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-conscious ethic, lies not in an appeal to facts, but in an appeal to the 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.”
There has been/is barely a single male writer/philosopher/psychologist/sociologist etc., on record who was/is not a chauvinist pig. You'd have to overlook a lot in dismissing them all, and maybe start with Aristotle, who thought women were "imperfect men", incapable of reason. We admire or believe different things/people for different reasons. Nietzsche understood that social norms based on religious beliefs and popular bias ruled the world, and that the chief goal of those who would be free was to stare them down. That applies to women as well or even more than to men because there is no single group that has been as exploited, oppressed and underestimated as have women. Sure, call all male chauvinists out, but you can't simply dismiss them and everything they have to say on every subject.
A great exposition of the basic unreality of the reality most people live in and with: for most people it is much more comfortable to live in a lie than start all over with nothing but the reality of your self and your own careful observations/conclusions. It was the great struggle Nietzsche took upon himself and recommended for those who would be free: you may never know the ultimate truth, the entire truth about most things, but you can disinvest from obvious lies, and especially evil, ugly, debilitating, and perhaps fatal lies. You know they are lies when they offer no physical evidence, must be taken on faith, and involve some kind of extortion, moral or physical, at the hands of authority. The only faith that counts for anything is the belief that you can free yourself from this bondage.
You do realize Nietzsche was a chauvinistic pig that was in-love with his sister, right?
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“It is obvious that in his day-dreams he is a warrior, not a professor; all of the men he admires were military. His opinion of women, like every man's, is an objectification of his own emotion towards them, which is obviously one of fear. "Forget not thy whip"-- but nine women out of ten would get the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women, and soothed his wounded vanity with unkind remarks. ...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-conscious ethic, lies not in an appeal to facts, but in an appeal to the 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.”
There has been/is barely a single male writer/philosopher/psychologist/sociologist etc., on record who was/is not a chauvinist pig. You'd have to overlook a lot in dismissing them all, and maybe start with Aristotle, who thought women were "imperfect men", incapable of reason. We admire or believe different things/people for different reasons. Nietzsche understood that social norms based on religious beliefs and popular bias ruled the world, and that the chief goal of those who would be free was to stare them down. That applies to women as well or even more than to men because there is no single group that has been as exploited, oppressed and underestimated as have women. Sure, call all male chauvinists out, but you can't simply dismiss them and everything they have to say on every subject.