Nietzsche’s Genius Philosophy - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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Wow. Just wow. You're absolutely brilliant. This is the most profound explanation I've heard of Nietzsche's philosophy. Great work.

Fun Fact: “Thus Spake Zarathustra” is the title of the Opening & Closing music to Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, “2001 A Space Odyssey” How cool is that?

Quite great timing. Just spent two months in Zarathustra. The book absolutely flattened me. Therefore, I read Carl Jung’s 1600 page seminar on it which was quite helpful in getting a grapple on the text.

I am not steeped enough in Kafka’s work to talk intelligently about him, but Wagner, Proust, Bukowski, Virginia Woolf, and even Gustav Mahler are actively present in my thinking. I add Mahler because like Proust his gifts were ones of self-sacrifice and a heroic endurance in the face of tremendous sorrow. Mahler could see it coming, and he saw it vividly. His compositions embody his foreboding. He did, though, die before World War I as did Wagner. These two did not live to see the collisions of the old and new they envisioned actually play out on the world stage. Proust saw some of it, and Charles Bukowski was later and the two great wars were part of his consciousness as an artist. “Find something you love,” Bukowski charged us, “and do it till it kills you.” You notice that there are none of these Nietzschean ubermensch prescriptions in the works of Virginia Woolf, a woman of equivalent talent and incite as compared to the above mentioned men. So as Nietzsche sends us in the direction of nature, we see that Virginia Woolf and others are of a very different nature than the men we are discussing. Compassion and sensitivity are not crimes. They are not failings. Nature is as nurturing as it is blindly cruel. With all of Wagner’s prodigious gifts, he was a monster. He could see the future, and he pushed the world toward it manipulating everything and everyone he could. He was unrelenting and barbarically cruel. His music-dramas are spellbinding, and little compares to his work, but can we ignore the costs of his triumphs? And, as for Jordan Peterson, he is a self-promoting windbag who should find a hobby and leave the rest of us be.

Thank you for connecting all the ideas together, such a priceless service. Only through yours, I see depth instead of most shallowness in others.

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Loved the Nietzsche-Nature pun 😀

Your interpretations are exquisite. You are on point with all of it. - From someone who actually took the time read several times over works you have mentioned…

This is undoubtedly the greatest piece of insight into Nietzsche's Philosophy I have ever come across! It is also the most succinct explanation. I can't thank you enough for putting so much into perspective for me! Amazing !!!

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Thank you for awesome summary and explanation of Nietzsche's philosophy and writing

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Well done! I agree with you, In Search of Lost Time is the greatest novel, possibly the greatest work of art, in the history of civilization. I'm re-reading Swann's Way right now; I'm in the middle of "Swann in Love." What profound analysis of the workings of the human mind, of our aspirations, our motivations, our delusions, our guilts, our readings and misreadings of other people. Layer upon layer upon layer of analysis, digging deep into the strata of the human psyche. And he was abominably ill the whole time he was writing. Yes, that book is a heroic, a superhuman, achievement. I've never read Thus Spake Zarathustra, but I have two copies of it, and it's fairly short, so I'm going to try to squeeze it in between finishing Swann's Way and starting Within a Budding Grove. And just last week I heard of Charles Bukowski for the first time, so there's another writer I'll have to start reading. Incidentally, your narration beginning at 36:10 ("So, for Nietzsche, humans should be able to fully probe, like the tendrils of a climbing plant, without the fear of religious punishment or moral punishment.") cuts to a photo of a vine spreading profusely around the upper-storey windows of a house. That reminded me of the "little room" at the top of Aunt Léonie's house in Combray. Remember, it smelled of orris-root and "was scented also by a wild currant-bush which had climbed up between the stones of the outer wall and thrust a flowering branch in through the half-opened window." Thanks again for a really enjoyable and enlightening video!

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I admire Nietzsche, Freud, Jung, and Peterson a great deal. And I believe you handled their relationship with each other very well. Very happy I found this channel the other week, you deserve all the good fortune coming your way, God bless.👍