These notes are for the book BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Friedrich Nietzsche.

Was wondering if the summary of the chapter was how women perceived in society, How truth should be followed by everyone

Does this mean they are too broken to have courage to notice their broken and missing parts in a mirror? Because there's a fad among grownups from everywhere that philosophy is for cowards, loners, self inflicted and general victims, social outcast, weaklings and harassed humans, they mostly see anyone pursuing philosophy outside of their academics as someone with grave mental illnesses. There's a common saying in my country India and which is also popularised by famous actors like ShahRukhKhan that don't immerse too much into philosophy before being successful. It's now being treated as something banal or a missing after thought. Not as something that stands anyways in it's own merit and standards. Philosophers are seen as scum of society who pollutes brazen and young minds. Just because philosophy is uncomfortable it's being treated as a ludicrous and absurd taboo!!!...

i spoke to my grandmother about why i left Christianity (it involved my interest for philosophy and also reading the Antichrist). She sent me a letter after our chat about how Nietzsche was a toxic person, a tortured soul and an arrogant fool. Maybe she was right, but anyway I was inspired so i made this. I can never show her my masterpiece though. God is dead -acrylic on canvas by me

was randomly on google maps and saw a Nietzsche street and uhh went to take a picture.

Almost all the posts I see on this sub are just a bunch of people arguing about things, like any other sub. It’s not a terrible thing; people and ways of thinking conflicting with each other.

Let’s just be real here, though. This sub either lost, or never had a real, vibrant Dionysian flavor to it. Nietzsche would look at this and probably think it’s devoid of life and passion.

That’s what I think. People don’t seem to have the strength behind their words to breathe poetic life into something that seems so trivial. A small piece of a social media platform which already behaves the same way as any other piece. Cold and devoid of passion.

Well, I’ll stop barking and start biting a little now! Here are some original works. Not perfect or objective claims by any means. Just passionate and words that have been lived.

“When you realize you have failed, you cannot expect to behave as if you are greater than you currently are. You can only strive to become greater.“

“We all live in a reality of great struggle and pain. Why not learn to love reality rather than hide from it? Is this cosmic game of hide and seek not exhausting?”

“Success breeds success and failure breeds failure, but nobody likes to fail all the time. Nobody likes to hate life, or feel no purpose in living it, or have their purpose dictated by other people or a God. Reality either destroys them, or forces them to grow.

Evolution at its finest. We have not transcended evolution with our intelligence, or thrown a wrench into its gears. Our intelligence is the catalyst that allows us to evolve in a way that no other animal does.”

“I am an iron fortress. My gates are almost always open. However, my guards are always prepared for invaders, saboteurs, thieves, and charlatans. My army is battle-hardened and eager for conquest. One cannot expect to besiege such a fortress without heavy losses. The rational choice is not to attack.”

“People love abstract ideas so they can simplify reality into something easily digestible and comfortable.

We evolved from apes and still share about 98% of our DNA with chimps. The biggest difference between us and chimps is our intelligence. One can infer from this that there are causes for our actions, which entirely contradicts free will.

Not to mention, if our actions can be uncaused, then why does it matter if they were harmful or not? We can’t even do anything then. We have nothing to change or work with.

People then divide each other and themselves into ‘good’ or ‘evil.’

‘Lazy’ or ‘hardworking’.

‘Smart’ or ‘dumb’.

‘Funny’ or ‘lame’.

‘Weird’ or ‘normal’.

They’re all usually useless labels that don’t help to change anything, and they dumb people and their actions down. It directs the focus away from the real consequences of people’s choices, and the reasons they made those choices in the first place. It places the blame entirely on the person themselves. Another abstract idea like their ‘conscience’ or their ‘soul’.”

Hope you enjoyed! They’re not in any significant order. They’re kind of a jumbled mess, just like life!

Edit: Thank you to everyone who has commented, or will comment in the future. I made this post to invite people to attack my beliefs, as well as to throw a few punches out myself. I love that I can do this on a whim.

Edit 2: “It is true we love life; not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." -TSZ, “On Reading and Writing”

“He who writes in blood and aphorisms does not want to be read, he wants to be learned by heart.” -TSZ, “On Reading and Writing”

“Another thing is war. I am naturally warlike. Attacking is one of my instincts. Being able to be an enemy, being an enemy — these require a strong nature, perhaps; in any case every strong nature presupposes them. It needs resistances, so it seeks resistance: aggressive pathos is just as integrally necessary to strength as the feeling of revenge and reaction is to weakness.” -Ecce Homo, “Why Am I so Wise?”

I’m worried about the culture surrounding this case. Lindsay is clearly a failure of life affirmation, she killed her 3 children and made an attempt at her own life.

The cultural response
The Condemer
Obvious resentment and moral elitism swirling about, the old cultural need for a ledger to balance injury and debt. Those who cannot see a failure of life affirmation and move on.

The Pitiful

“Tout comprendre, c’est tout pardonner”
“To understand all is to forgive all”
This is the essence of the Pitiful and the culmination of modern-day Christian forgiveness.
It elevates pity into the highest value and turns suffering, especially maternal and psychiatric suffering, into a source of moral capital. Understanding becomes a technique for dissolving agency and demanding collective sympathy. This is the modern, medicalized descendant of Christian forgiveness: knowledge of causes is supposed to compel mercy, and those who withhold it risk being labeled inhuman. This is the illness of the modern day imo, elevating illness and diminishing the higher types.

And last but not least, Patrick Clancy
Patrick Clancy’s reported stance, “i was not married to a monster, i was married to someone who got sick” suggests a stronger type one capable of registering a catastrophic failure of life-affirmation without converting it into permanent reactive identity or a demand for moral balance. That capacity for forgetting is itself the achievement. The question of what the courts do with Lindsay is separate and I think should come from a stance of societal hygiene, isolating her in a mental institution.

Anyway I just had some thoughts on the topic and wanted to share. What do you think?

So me (19 mtf) an my gf (18 mtf) were watching a video about "The anti christ" by a dude called weltgeist, and i was telling her about how Nietzsche is evil and "pity" and human emotion was good actually and the material world is bad and we should try to escape it, and she was telling me how I should affirm life and not deny it with philosophical escapism. And i kept insisting being an individualistic atheist is stupid and it would make you miserable. So out of nowhere she grabs me tightly and says "let me give you a philosophical lesson" and she poped my eye out with her thumb , she said it was to teach me to affirm life, "If you think the material world is cruel, i gave you the blessing to cease gazing at it", after calling the cops she kept mumbling about "slave morality", "meekness" and "décadence" while being escorted by to the police car. I'm sitting here in the hospital wondering what she could have meant, can any Nietzsche intellectual explain if she had a point?

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The underlying force behind evolution, the drive that all living things have to increase their individual experience with the things they find valuable. Please share your thoughts and opinions in the comments!

GS aphorism 99

Schopenhauer's followers

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What is N doin here? He's not attacking Schopenhauer in fact he respects him deeply, he is attacking the German disciples of Schopenhauer specifically Wagner, he's attacking a deeper human tendency namely “inheriting only the vices of the higher culture”

“Barbarian meets a higher culture” he kicks off with a metaphor, when “lower culture” meets a higher one it doesn't copy the virtues first it copies the vices. Because vices are the easiest to imitate, he suggests it is true everywhere you don't have to visit “barbarian tribes” to see it you can see it in Germany itself!

What do the Germans copy from Schoppy?

Not his genius for clarity!

Not his psychological discipline!

Not his loneliness and deep thinking!

Not his rigorous intellectual conscience!

They steal his vices.

His pessimistic gloom and mystical aura!

His “world-denying” side!

His metaphysical phrases!

His contempt for life!

His excessive emotions!

Why? Because these are the easiest aspects of Schoppy to mimic, they imitate his WORST FEATURES!

• World-redeemer fantasies (”unriddler of the world”

• mystical monism (”all lions are one lion”)

• Denial of individuality

• gloomy rhetoric “the purpose of life is dying”

• metaphysical pity

• Buddhism, resignation, negation, etc

• ascetic moralizing

These are easy to digest and inebriating aspects of Schoppy and they completely miss his BEST FEATURES

• His clarity • His honesty • His brutal analysis • His vigorous thoughts • And his PERCISION

Now why did Schoppy attract these barbarians? These people of weak and lower culture? N explains further…Schoppy was himself deeply paradoxical- torn between “reason” and “mystical will” this very thing made him tempting almost seductive for the lesser minds he had a combination of two very dangerous aspects in his philosophy that made the average readers not thinkers but zealots!

The combination of HARD LOGIC AND GLOOMY METAPHYSICAL WORLD-DENIAL and who can portray this example better than Wagner the most famous follower of Schoppy who imitates him emotionally but not intellectually, twists him to fit his own resentment, loses the “clarity” and gains only the metaphysics, make him even more gloomy and mystical, and most importantly GETS SEDUCED BY “PITY” MORE RATHER THAN REASON!

And his moralizing of pity is contradictory to LIFE…

N’s deeper insight

{Why do followers misunderstand geniuses}

Disciples are selective, always picking what is easier to imitate-that being vices not virtues.

• They copy the style and not the substance

• They copy the emotional moods and not the intellectual discipline

• they copy the poses not the principles

This is why N says true independence yearns turning against whatever formed you even your teachers!

N did this with his teacher Schoppy

N did this with his friend Wagner

N did this with his religion Christianity

N did this with his country Germany (intellectually)

And we who are in this community are required to do the same with N beware of following Zarathustra you'll lose “your way” don't be N’s cheap imitation when you can be the original YOU!

This is N’s psychological law Imo

“To be yourself, you must loosen the ties of your origin”

This whole passage is a genius self-commentary he is analyzing himself using Schoppy’s followers to indirectly describe why he left Wagner, Schoppy, and Christianity and eventually the German intellect in order to be a “Good European” This is why N fears having followers because he knows most of us will imitate his vices and not his virtues this is why Zarathustra says multiple times…. “Beware of following me!”

Schoppy and N

N actually honors Schoppy here

• Schoppy had a cleaner conscience than his followers

• He never backstabbed his thinking

• He was CLEAR!

• He didn't promote false comfort in his philosophy

The master is not corrupt the disciples are!

Schoppy’s philosophy was great but his followers only copied the intoxicating weaknesses and not the rigorous strengths- this is how lesser cultures steal the vices from the higher culture before they understand its virtues!

[The nightmare of N]

• How Nietzsche was right bout the weaker spirits/followers and predicted Hitler the ultimate symbol of intellectual and moral weakness!

Hitler is EXACTLY the kind of disciple N warned against, he's the perfect example of N’s psychological law “the follower imitates the vices not the virtues” Hitler read only what fed his resentments and fantasies he didn’t read N like a thinker but a drunkard

For Hitler:

WTP = domination, not inner mastery

Ubermensch = racial superiority, not self-overcoming

Eternal return = Destiny of the Aryan rebirth

Critique of ressentiment → justification for hatred

Critique of Jews → misinterpreted as anti-Semitism

Critique of morality → excuse for cruelty

He yanked the shadows and not the lights (GS aphorism 90)

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He took Wagner’s hatred and theatrics and not his artistic intellect, Hitler copied the emotional inebriation of Wagner

• His theatrical intensity

• His mythic German jingoism

• the pathos of “German destiny”

• His hatred for the JEWS

But Hitler didn't try to steal Wagner’s genius behind the curtains

• His discipline • His art • His musical edifice

“Men incapable of ideas and passions seek intoxication; and art becomes a means for intoxication.” (GS 86)

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He did exactly what N explicitly warned against Hitler turned philosophy into a weapon for the HERD he was N’s nightmare N feared that his writings will be misunderstood by weak-willed and used by tyrants and the failed Austrian artist is LITERALLY HIM!

N predicted Hitler 40+ years before he existed not as a person though, but as a type

• A product of weak culture • A psychological type • A spiritual sickness

N describes Hitler PERFECTLY

“The resentful failed artist who turns to politics”

Hitler = a failed painter

Wagner = an artist intoxicated with ideology

These two are ACTORS not the CREATORS, or rather Wagner the creator of an actor (funny cuz he wrote plays lol)

The herd seducers who use art to intoxicate the masses N in GS 86 says….

“The strongest ideas are not brought to those who can think, but to those who need intoxication.”

That's textbook fascism!

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Hitler is a man who mistook power for value N constantly says…

WTP = creation, growth, self-mastery but for Hitler it was only domination, he was an imitator of Wagner he has all the vices of the artist, none of the virtues. The same psychological profile as Wagner but weaponized politically!

I said it perfectly: Hitler gifting “Will to Power” to Mussolini is the ultimate proof he misunderstood everything he inverted N, WILL TO POWER A TITLE PERFECT FOR TYRANTS WHO LACK VITALITY AND NOBILITY

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Nietzsche would've loathed Hitler and Hitler would've loathed the REAL NIETZSCHE!

Hitler admired a fake N a hoax corrupted by Elisabeth, Nietzsche’s sister, a hardcore antisemitic nationalist who rewrote him, this is what the real N said.…

• “Nationalism is a disease of the mind.”

• “The Jews are the strongest, toughest, most enduring race in Europe.”

• “I am a pure European, not a German.”

• “State = the coldest of all cold monsters.”

• “Wagner is a sickness.”

N’s ideal man??

Not a tyrant who cannot handle his weakness and projects outward ❌

But the FREE SPIRIT ✅

The self-overcomer ✅

Not the brute/barbarian ❌

The artist-philosopher ✅

Not the sick individual who twists and turns but still lacks intellectual, moral, and psychological flexibility ❌

(Apologies ahead if this is not the most coherent, going through intense withdrawal)

I am right now (M19) going through a severe point of isolation and quitting the vices that have ruined my life since I was a child. (A bit embarrassing to admit but they are as follows) Porn, Sex, Social media, cocaine, mdma and a general reliance on dopamine.

These efforts to rid my mind of all these toxic things at once have made me feel both intense headaches, emotional distress as my brain repairs itself, nausea and many other negative things. But also a profound love for life again as these intense moments have taken me out of my depression and into a more fiery emotional state.

What I am getting at is without beyond good and evil (a book I read at 16) and thus spoke (finishing up now) my perspective on this suffering would be drastically different and far more negative.

The loss of my sister and 17 most likely would have resulted me in taking my own life as well but with Nietzsche's writings I realized I have to live my life to the fullest so I don't end up the same way my sister did. (This sounds harsh I truly loved my sister but drugs ruined her life and I have confidence in saying she would want me to feel this way)

I'm pursuing music, writing and philosophy as my passions again and all these things, especially after quitting social media so I don't doom scroll for hours, has made me much more appreciative of life.

Every lashing of life's whip has only made me feel stronger. So thank you Mr mustache man, you're amazing.

Nietzsche believed this and said in his various work that he is writing for exceptional rare people not for the herd and now he is most mainstream and popular philosopher in masses and favorite of edgelords

Quote source:

Errata corrige - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, from the Dance Song - not the Nigth Song.

I realised life is meaningless and I am really afraid of it. I wasn't very religious at any point of my life, infact even as a kid I thought praying is weird and childish, my parents literally had to told me to pray everytime, still I grew up in this very religious environment and subconsciously I picked up those theological instincts of my father. But while reading Nietzsches work I came upon this realisation that these instincts are 'pure lie' and I will die, with it everything will end. The fancy dome of beutiful pictures have been crumbled before my eyes and now  I'm alone in this dark void, it is really cold here... I am scared of it, I'm scared of death, I don't wanna die.  

JBP’s early online presence is quite remarkable to me and he balanced Jung, Nietzsche and Christianity at least as well as one could hold that very tough tension together but with his recent work (listening to the Elon interview now) he’s become a dogmatist and thinks that Christianity and myth has all the answers ignoring the fact that we play a role in developing those myths.

Ecce Homo - Why I Write Such Excellent Books