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Was Nietzsche MAGA?

See Part Three now! https://go.nebula.tv/philosophytube Support the show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PhilosophyTube BIBLIOGRAPHY: - Christa Davis Acampora, “On Sovereignty and Overhumanity,” in International Studies in Philosophy - Liv Agar, “A Brief Definition of Wokeness” - Liv Agar, “J.D. Vance Being Weird and the Male Loneliness Epidemic” - Pierre Andre-Taguieff, “The Traditional Paradigm - Horror of Modernity and Antiliberalism: Nietzsche in Reactionary Rhetoric,” in Why We Are Not Nietzscheans - Frithjof Bergmann, “Nietzsche’s Critique of Morality,” in Reading Nietzsche - Debrah Bergoffen, “Oedipal Dramas,” in Why Nietzsche Still? - Wendy Brown, “Nietzsche For Politics,” in Why Nietzsche Still - Katelyn Burns, “The Republican Retreat from Governance” - Judith Butler, “Circuits of Bad Conscience,” in Why Nietzsche Still? - André Comte-Sponville, “The Brute, the Sophist, and the Aesthete: “Art in the Service of Illusion,”” in Why We Are Not Nietzscheans - Arthur Danto, “Some Remarks on The Genealogy of Morals,” in Reading Nietzsche - Liza Featherstone, “Liberals Are Giving Up on America,” in Jacobin - Nolan Gertz, Nihilism - Robert Houlb, Nietzsche’s Jewish Problem - Bernd Magnus, “The Use and Abuse of “The Will To Power”,” in Reading Nietzsche - Salar Mohandesi, “Faith, or the Stories We Tell” - Jeffrey Nealon, “Performing Resentment,” in Why Nietzsche Still? - Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals - David Owen and Aaron Ridley, “Dramatis Personae,” in Why Nietzsche Still? - David Owen, Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality - Alan Schrift, “Introduction,” in Why Nietzsche Still? - Alan Schrift, “Nietzsche's Contest,” in Why Nietzsche Still? - Rebecca Stringer, “A Nietzschean Breed,” in Why Nietzsche Still? - Robert Solomon, “Introduction,” in Reading Nietzsche - Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins, “Wendy Brown: A Conversation on Our “Nihilistic” Age,” in The Nation MUSIC: Danse Macabre - No Violin by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://freepd.com/Classical/Danse%20Macabre%20-%20No%20Violin Artist: http://incompetech.com/ What True Self, Feels Bogus, Let's Watch Jason X by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/reappear/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ CGI Snake by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/divider/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ #selfimprovement #philosophy #maga

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Zoe McAden

Watched on Nebula. Mind-blowing!!!

Susan Schutjes

Loved it! In my twenties, I indeed had big trouble with the meaninglessness of it all vs the "thou shalt" attitude in religion which didn't make sense either. Has anyone ever read the book Contact, by Carl Sagan? He talked about "the life of ants". What is their meaning in life? In the end, I decided to set my goals this way: follow the realization of personal dreams and whishes, and also help and connect with others (which I indeed think of as partly egotistical).

Emily Meyerding

Either we will choose a selection or a selection will be imposed upon us, either by elites or by inevitable circumstances. If we're lucky, as a species, this selection will improve our chances, as a species, to continue on Earth. If we collectively choose short term aims and profits, then we will go the way of other dinosaurs.

TERFs Took All The Ektachrome

Concerning the discussion in the end credits' captions of the Trump-voting friend, I definitely had a visceral reaction to it due to the patriarchal-control bit, but IMO it didn't come across as endorsing it. I'm definitely at the point where Trump voting permanently taints someone to me, so that influences my response to that bit as well.

David Crowe

I was put in mind of the importance of distinguishing between "explaining" and "excusing" reading the subtitles at the end. I'm autistic, and people (normally with power, and exclusively neurotypical) have said to me in the past, "don't give me excuses" when I'm explaining something (for example, why a colleague did something that would normally unacceptable) . There's a general autistic tendency to want to convey to people why things happened, to be understood, and powerful NTs seem to think that explaining things is avoiding taking responsibility. So I often have to be clear that I'm "explaining not excusing". I'm conscious that this echoes with some of what Abi was saying in this video about will to power, and in particular, some of what Vance says about leftist empathy disempowering people. Although, fascinatingly, those same powerful NT folks will also blame me for communication problems. So yes.

z m

To answer the questions at the end: yes, it was useful :) , yes it was a good move to make it three parts IMO, and finally yes, it did strike the perfect balance of undertsanding without condoning :D Thank you!

Sam Skipsey

The irony, I always think, of Nietzsche being used by right-wing political movements is that (as Abi notes), he very much wants *everyone* to try to be an *individual* - people following Nazism who *weren't* Hitler are also losers to Nietzsche (although not quite as much as people following Christianity, which he specifically hated), because it's the *following* that he thought was awful as much as the *type of thing* they were following. Nietzsche doesn't really want there to be a "society", ultimately - he wants an atomised set of individuals who are all actualising themselves (albeit he thinks certain types of people would be naturally better at that than others - ironically, he decided that the Polish were much better than the Germans at this in his "going mad" phase and insisted that he must be secretly Polish and that's why he was so great), and *any* ideological system is anathema to that. (Which is why, even though he despises Christianity, he does say he thinks *Christ* was pretty awesome - he created an entire new value system himself, stuck to it even though it got him killed, and expressed his Will to Power by turning it [mostly posthumously] into one of the most powerful religions in the world. )

Brin Bixby

Commenting here because nebula doesn't allow comments, so, apologies for talking out of school... I can't seem to find the Outer Worlds video on Nebula. Is this just a function of Patreon seeing this ahead of YouTube release, and the "now" referenced in the nebula spot is actually referring to the future date on which YouTube viewers will be watching it?

Finvaara

I think it's meant to come out when the Youtube video is released, not on the early release date we get to see it on.

Kristen

I like FromSoft titles for the void. I don't know what it is about old, dying worlds with layers of defunct history and just a few other crazy people who don't spend a lot of time explaining their backstory...