>Friedrich Nietzsche was trained in Greek classics and lived inside European intellectual culture. His targets - morality, Christianity, truth - are all Western constructs.>He wasn't importing a ready-made alternative from the East.>He was dismantling the West from within.So, he removed his basis and put nothing in its place.
Some of his ideas echo themes found in traditions like Buddhism or Advaita, but the similarity is surface-level.
>>25205509his basis was the future
>>25205521And what a future he had, right?Protip: don't follow the guidance of other people's ego.
It’s actually insane to see how much damage he managed to do in such a short timespan.
>>25205532>Protip: don't follow the guidance of other people's ego.i actually think this is a very bad tip. ego should speak to ego; we should look each other in the eye, and see all there is to learn.personally i'm glad we got fin-de-siecle artistic revolutions and a language to think about modernity. i'm glad that the glaciers of an inert civilization began to melt and fresh icy currents began to flow. i say: thanks nietzsche, for whatever brave part you played in all that.conservatives love seeing cannon-fodder sacrifice themselves for king and fatherland; those corpses they'll stack up by the herdful with sentimental tears in their eyes. but when people sacrifice themselves for something more ineffable and mysterious, those same conservatives start to get shifty, they get uncomfortable, confused, and ultimately they get very malicious and vindictive, spit on the shattered body and mock its suffering - and refuse to look it in the eye. they hate people whose homeland doesn't yet exist just as they hate any interloper who strides across their little fenced-in peasant-plot of an existence.if philosophy is merely about adapting yourself into functional fodder let's give it up entirely and stick to reading self-help.
>>25205509Don't you mean Neechee?
>future
>>25205591stirner really hated being a conscious human instead of passive protoplasm, didn't he? he hated the fact that through action and communication humans can create structures and meanings that have effects beyond their own biological origins. but remember nietzsche's point about how civilisation really began when people had trained themselves to make promises - when they had trained themselves to extend themselves through time and space and abstract culture, to actively will the future instead of stumbling passively, blindly towards it.
>>25205606Stirner exposed the farce that is personhood in a shared reality and his funny little book is the most life-affirming thing I've ever read. How you managed to get that bizarre misanthropic impression from it is a mystery to me.
>>25205620>life-affirmingA spook
>>25205509Nietzsche was anti-West. Marx was pro-west.
>>25205639How so?
>>25205538>It’s actually insane to see how much damage he managed to do in such a short timespan.neet chi didnt do anything, he wrote book after book of meaningless slop and people who liked it bought the books and claimed to be following philosophy, as people today buy george rape rape martins books and claim to be interested in history and politics. neet chi was the syphilosopher and rape rape is a fat faggot, these are omega males, they do what theyre told and are rewarded for it with syphilis whores and pizzas with ranch dressing
>>25205509>>He wasn't importing a ready-made alternative from the Eastyou ain't neva beheld the man. shut your supplement-reading whore mouth>>25205606it's such a good line. "a human is an animal that has trained itself to make promises." such a good way to understand how the greek nobility thought of itself
>>25205509>So, he removed his basis and put nothing in its placeWrong, he gave us le ubermeh
>>25205577> but when people sacrifice themselves for something more ineffable and mysteriousWhy SHOULD we sacrifice ourselves to something more ineffable and mysterious? Namely, something that could easily be shaped to fit any egomaniac’s mold?
>>25205889>Why SHOULD we
>>25205889>Why SHOULD we sacrifice ourselves to something more ineffable and mysterious?"Ye crowd around your neighbour, and have fine words for it. But I say unto you: your neighbour-love is your bad love of yourselves.<...>The thou is older than the I; the thou hath been consecrated, but not yet the I: so man presseth nigh unto his neighbour.Do I advise you to neighbour-love? Rather do I advise you to neighbour-flight and to furthest love!Higher than love to your neighbour is love to the furthest and future ones; higher still than love to men, is love to things and phantoms.The phantom that runneth on before thee, my brother, is fairer than thou; why dost thou not give unto it thy flesh and thy bones? But thou fearest, and runnest unto thy neighbour.""Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way to thyself! And past thyself and thy seven devils leadeth thy way!A heretic wilt thou be to thyself, and a wizard and a sooth-sayer, and a fool, and a doubter, and a reprobate, and a villain.Ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame; how couldst thou become new if thou have not first become ashes!Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way of the creating one: a God wilt thou create for thyself out of thy seven devils!Thou lonesome one, thou goest the way of the loving one: thou lovest thyself, and on that account despisest thou thyself, as only the loving ones despise.To create, desireth the loving one, because he despiseth! What knoweth he of love who hath not been obliged to despise just what he loved!""But the people ye remain for me, even with your virtues, the people with purblind eyes—the people who know not what spirit is!Spirit is life which itself cutteth into life: by its own torture doth it increase its own knowledge,—did ye know that before?And the spirit’s happiness is this: to be anointed and consecrated with tears as a sacrificial victim,—did ye know that before?And the blindness of the blind one, and his seeking and groping, shall yet testify to the power of the sun into which he hath gazed,—did ye know that before?""And like the star that goeth out, so is every work of your virtue: ever is its light on its way and travelling—and when will it cease to be on its way?Thus is the light of your virtue still on its way, even when its work is done. Be it forgotten and dead, still its ray of light liveth and travelleth."
