Anarchonomicon - Ep35 “Which Way Western Man？” Part 6 (Nietzsche 1) w⧸Brynhildr

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00:03:09.540 all right so i will get us started hello hello hello glorious listeners welcome back to another

00:03:20.220 exciting episode of the anarchonomcom podcast joining me again today is brennhilder say hello

00:03:27.160 hello so we're back after some a so an extended break in recording with a chapter four of william

00:03:39.140 Gailey Simpson's Which Way Western Man. So this is Simpson's Chapter 4, The Meaning of Nietzsche

00:03:47.720 for the Modern World. So getting started? Certainly Nietzsche was not a philosopher

00:03:56.800 in the strict sense of the word. He is essentially a poet and a sociologist and above all a mystic.

00:04:03.200 he stands in the direct line

00:04:05.840 of European mysticism

00:04:07.240 and no less profound

00:04:08.920 speaks with the same voice

00:04:10.920 as Blake and Whitman

00:04:12.400 these three might indeed

00:04:14.820 be said to voice the religion

00:04:16.920 of modern Europe

00:04:17.880 the religion of idealistic individualism

00:04:20.700 so right off the bat

00:04:23.700 I want to say that like

00:04:25.220 that trio would not have occurred to me

00:04:28.920 mm-mm

00:04:30.000 uh

00:04:32.140 uh i i'd almost say that like almost no one reads those three together today like uh i i

00:04:41.180 i think you'd struggle to find someone who had like read all three uh yeah blake i quite like

00:04:50.040 whitman i've never gotten into and of course nietzsche i do like as well yeah i've read

00:04:56.660 whitman and i don't think i read any of blake's is he a poet yeah his his poem that um i quote

00:05:06.640 for everything is the tiger uh that's maybe the one that you've heard the most dear reader but

00:05:14.460 like he was prolific he wrote a ton and uh like like both poetry and like uh prose and

00:05:24.360 i i'm probably gonna go back and visit him now after this uh whitman as well like uh

00:05:31.960 gets framed as kind of a like proto shitlib but like also is the base of like

00:05:38.940 american libertarianism and like a lot of american romanticism like there's a lot of

00:05:43.860 whitman in american conservatism as well and like like uh one could argue that he was one of

00:05:52.500 the progenitors of like like the 60s but like not just what you think of as the 60s like almost all

00:06:01.480 the like cultural revolutions in mid-20th century American life but what do you think

00:06:09.740 what do you think that Simpson means by idealistic individualism

00:06:16.420 well and that's the question isn't it because like there i'm almost certain there's a lot of

00:06:22.840 listeners out there who um who will like intuitively like react against individualism

00:06:30.740 because it's become like one of those uh poison buzzwords that like yeah was used to justify like

00:06:40.580 you know like free mark markets everyone flinches away from the term free markets because it was

00:06:48.780 used to justify something that like wasn't very free and wasn't very much a market yeah

00:06:54.300 in the same way individualism you know has been used to justify like gay race communism

00:07:02.320 and like you know denying people freedom of association stuff stuff like uh

00:07:10.580 Like, the actual ideal of individualism, let alone, like, idealistic individualism,

00:07:18.940 like, you kind of is, like, the water would swim in.

00:07:25.800 Like, if you've, like, read a story like Berserk or, like, anything out of, like, anime that's been produced post-war

00:07:38.200 or any of the popular, like, sci-fi stories.

00:07:44.040 Like, there's an intense, like, idealistic individualism to all of it.

00:07:50.400 This idea, like, the individual will, like, you know,

00:07:55.020 everything from Guts against Griffith to, like, Sarah Connor against, like, Skynet

00:07:59.960 has this

00:08:02.900 has this intense

00:08:06.880 like faith in like

00:08:08.760 the individual

00:08:11.040 like will to

00:08:12.700 survive and like overcome

00:08:14.680 and stuff. This is like kind of

00:08:17.000 the standard story in

00:08:18.980 like Hollywood and the West

00:08:20.840 and like not just Hollywood like

00:08:22.880 like this is kind of the standard way

00:08:25.040 for like white people to interpret

00:08:27.120 stories now.

00:08:28.020 now and like this was you know weirdly for for everyone who says that like

00:08:35.760 fascism was a collectivist ideal and and stuff and whatnot like it's quite remarkable how like

00:08:43.580 how even like fascist ideologies and like like uh like nazism or like miscellaneous fascism

00:08:53.340 like more intensely idealizing the individual will the individual like strength you know

00:09:00.980 is the people coming together under one leer but like like the role of individual heroism and like

00:09:09.000 uh like uh this is to the extent you think like inglorious bastards was a redeemable movie at all

00:09:17.460 like uh the like like inglorious bastards the reason that like it's not just like dumb

00:09:26.460 judaic propaganda or like you know the way some people interpret it that way that's not just like

00:09:34.240 a dumb revenge fantasy is that oh the film they're watching at the end of inglorious bastards

00:09:39.580 is exactly as ridiculous and like like uh stupid a um a story of like

00:09:50.140 individualistic military like excellence start killing a ton of people as the film

00:09:57.440 in glorious bastards itself uh and some people like try to interpret that way that like oh that's

00:10:04.320 that's clever you know hollywood hollywood and like fashion match i share this uh intense uh

00:10:14.260 individualism individualistic uh like ideal of like the violent will and like you know

00:10:23.580 the nazis were obsessed with cowboys and like creating their own cowboy frontier

00:10:28.500 yeah i think you i i don't think there was actually something that coherent dungalus

00:10:34.940 bastards but like some people interpret that way yeah i won't comment on it because my comments

00:10:41.980 would probably get me put into prison but um i will say that i think i i i have some pushback

00:10:50.880 to saying that Nietzsche is an individualism idealist or idealistic individualist because

00:10:59.800 well like right away what comes to mind is something he says in the gay science um he says

00:11:08.160 that like he's talking about the reason that he named the book the gay science and he says

00:11:15.120 there is perhaps still a future even for laughter or gaiety when the maxim the race is all the

00:11:23.900 individual is nothing has incorporated itself in humanity and when access stands open to everyone

00:11:31.140 at all times to this ultimate emancipation and irresponsibility perhaps then laughter will have

00:11:37.740 united with wisdom perhaps then there will there be a gay science or a joyful wisdom which is

00:11:45.000 what the original german actually is this is joyful wisdom not gay science but um i like i

00:11:51.580 have found that quote very touching when i read it and it's always stuck with me as one of the

00:11:56.160 most interesting things you know one of the most beloved things i think that nietzsche has said

00:12:01.300 because like there is a way in which it does feel really nice not to have to worry so much about how

00:12:07.640 you turn out like the whole weight of the world is like on you it's like the responsibility that

00:12:14.120 christianity puts on to you is this like personal this like ego soul that will persist eternally

00:12:22.400 and like the enormous just the weight of that the weight of like having to be responsible for

00:12:30.220 a self or a soul that exists forever and ever amen and there is like something really beautiful

00:12:36.940 and liberating about like the rest of that whole section is about how it kind of doesn't matter who

00:12:42.680 you are or how you live you in some way benefit the human race as a whole like even if you're

00:12:48.540 really gross or really evil or whatever like there's something about the way that you're

00:12:53.780 living that's going to like there's no way that anyone can actually harm humanity at this point

00:13:01.060 like humanity is so robust as that might have seemed like very intuitive in Nietzsche's time

00:13:11.040 now it seems uh far less so uh yeah this is kind of like the transformation that has happened

00:13:18.920 to like uh like Nietzsche like the idea of the race is the highest ideal in Nietzsche's time

00:13:28.620 can seem like quite liberatory or quite freeing compared to like uh

00:13:34.720 like uh uh especially protestant christian morality especially in which

00:13:42.200 like the weight of the world is on your individual moral choices and actions

00:13:46.600 uh you know not just the world eternity itself is on right on your individual actions and like

00:13:54.400 like you're born a lot of pressure especially predetermination you're born and you have no

00:13:59.600 idea if you measure up or not no one it's kind of like this uh kind of like uh i i i insist it's

00:14:08.400 the protestants like like protestant germans re-deriving like uh ragnarok and like uh the

00:14:17.840 ancient germanic values from like first principles they're like oh you know you have to fight as hard

00:14:25.540 as you can and it's almost certainly not going to be enough and the world's going to fall apart

00:14:30.580 anyway but you're going to be judged by how hard you fight and like only by being completely

00:14:36.120 fearless can you at all justify yourself to like a higher power that's going to have like any grace

00:14:42.780 for you and that's like in the pagan world view that's supposed to be odin and like makes sense

00:14:50.560 that he's like looking for the toughest bravest there can be and like yeah you aren't going to

00:14:55.360 measure up but uh if you fight as hard as possible you know uh odin's going to select you for the

00:15:02.420 halls of balhalla and stuff and uh everyone has kind of found the like protestant re-deriver

00:15:09.520 derivation of that in uh in predestination that like um man is born depraved and only by grace

00:15:18.200 is he saved and it's predetermined who's going to be saved and not saved that like you can only like

00:15:24.680 be as good as you can possibly can and maybe maybe you know grace will find you and like um

00:15:31.840 The South Park joke, you know, heaven population, population 20,000, hell population, 100 billion and rising, because, like, no one can actually meet this standard that the Protestants set that, like, if you have the Germanic approach to, like, Christian salvation, it's like, well, that is genuinely impossible.

00:15:59.740 uh the like you can see where in the 19th century when like there's no like real racial pressure

00:16:09.580 also only be like no it's actually the race that matters and the preservation of like the people

00:16:15.740 going forward and whatnot that also that's a huge weight off your shoulders that's like oh i have to

00:16:21.820 like create things in this stuff and that's that's the real immortality is the uh the

00:16:29.860 friends we made along the way and the race going forward yeah it sounds like that when you're in

00:16:36.200 the 19th century in the 1890s hearing that is like like uh is like really hippy dippy stuff

00:16:42.800 whereas of course like like that's not always the case you know uh people like to be like west

00:16:49.800 fallen west fallen uh you know the white races is in such dire straits a day like uh if you go

00:16:57.940 back through history like the books of wanderung uh the migratory period at the end of rome or like

00:17:03.800 like the simbri invasion of rome rome or uh like the vandal migrations it's like no those were

00:17:11.060 entire races that people are like entire subsets of german races that like one wrong battle and

00:17:18.960 they could be like massacred to the last enslaved uh the kimbri uh the romans massacred 80 000 of

00:17:26.520 them and 120 000 of them uh committed suicide that very day day like when the lines broke

00:17:34.840 the daughters and wives speared their husbands uh who broke and ran that they used their women

00:17:42.380 as kind of like blocker units to keep their men funny.

00:17:47.980 And so when the men did break that, the Roman wall was like so advanced, 1.00

00:17:53.040 the women did actually like spear their husband

00:17:55.540 and did actually like bash the brains out of their own babes. 1.00

00:17:59.560 A blood orgy.

00:18:01.480 Yes, exactly.

00:18:03.260 Because, of course, Germanic women would not be taken slaves.

00:18:09.000 but uh yeah and that's that's something still beautiful i think like even that a whole sub

00:18:15.840 type of the you know the germanic race dies out in like this blood orgy like magnificent sacrifice

00:18:23.380 to the gods like it's just something beautiful about that and well there were i don't know

00:18:29.320 presumably like some tens of thousands who did escape and like uh so like this kimberly like

00:18:36.180 like the bloodlines like do survive and like you see and like merge into other german tribes and

00:18:45.760 you do see like the germans like if anything get more fanatical about this and like they do

00:18:52.940 eventually conquer rome so like it did work and all that like sacrifice was adding up to something

00:19:00.960 yeah yeah exactly like like he says i no longer know my dear fellow man and neighbor if you can

00:19:09.520 live to the disadvantage of the race and therefore unreasonably and badly that which would have

00:19:14.780 injured the race has perhaps died out many millennia ago and now belongs to the things

00:19:19.140 which are no longer possible even to god indulge your best or your worst desires and above all go

00:19:25.300 to ruin in either case you're still probably the furtherer and benefactor of mankind in some way

00:19:31.980 or other and in that respect you may have your panegyrists and also your mockers but um yeah

00:19:40.500 Nietzsche had not read the camp of the saints yeah but um I think you know you have to qualify

00:19:50.140 anything if you I do think there's a way in which you could read Nietzsche as an individualist I

00:19:55.260 suppose but you have to qualify that by saying that Nietzsche does not recognize all individuals

00:20:01.800 as created equal so he's if he's preaching to anybody or like initiating anyone into some sort

00:20:10.460 of mystery like Simpson here is claiming that he's a mystic if and he does say that about himself

00:20:16.900 right he says he's a he says he's a devotee of the philosopher god Dionysus who is a mystery like

00:20:23.680 a god of a mystery cult basically so if he's doing that if he's initiating people into a mystery it's

00:20:30.600 not any individual it's like not all individuals are created equal and certainly not all individuals

00:20:38.600 are ideal and not just anybody is like worthy of the journey or of you know high evaluation

00:20:48.220 or recognition or initiation into that mystery so Nietzsche is always you know very specific

00:20:57.080 about who like who matters because it's not every it's not that you know every individual is its

00:21:05.060 own special little snowflake that can turn into something magnificent if they just get the same

00:21:10.100 opportunities as everybody else like there is Nietzsche does have that sort of Germanic

00:21:16.460 conception of predestination as well right like you are a piece of fate there's a way in which

00:21:22.040 you don't control the accident of your birth and that in a large part determines like who you are

00:21:27.740 capable of becoming and the value of yourself of you know the individual is inherited it's

00:21:35.040 predetermined it's it's um it's not just evenly spread around the population so that like

00:21:42.640 everybody is special if they just get the right chance to bloom like there really are only these

00:21:48.300 very few men and the whole brunt of culture like the whole force that's being gathered by any sort

00:21:56.020 of cultural organization like the german tribes or the roman empire like all of that exists in

00:22:04.100 the end just to give like one or two really unique and just like fateful men the opportunity to i

00:22:13.240 don't know like blaze in glory and be remembered no exactly um let let's press forward with uh

00:22:25.160 with uh simpson's reading of nature because yeah like uh this is kind of simpson's project as he's

00:22:32.680 taking you know this uh writer from like the 1870s 1880s who like we think of as very modern but it's

00:22:39.700 very much a 19th century writer and he's like writing this at the same time as like the camp

00:22:46.700 of the saints is new like freshly out so he's we'll all see if simpson uh is able to translate

00:22:58.520 nietzsche to modern concerns so continuing the material though nietzsche is so vast and his

00:23:09.180 thought bears on so many of the problems of the world in which we live that perforce i must select

00:23:15.100 In general, I shall submit here what of Nietzsche has most deeply fed and formed my own life.

00:23:22.760 And I can do this without apology because through all my readings of Nietzsche,

00:23:26.560 I was not thinking more about my own problems than about those of my fellows

00:23:31.240 and about the whole sorry and desperate plight of Western man.

00:23:35.620 And what I felt most deeply for myself is precisely what I would urge upon the world

00:23:40.060 with the greatest conviction and urgency.

00:23:42.280 an urgency is called for

00:23:44.500 the western world must alter its course

00:23:47.080 and alter it soon

00:23:48.560 or it may forever be too late

00:23:50.740 and before such alteration is possible

00:23:53.400 there must be men

00:23:54.420 who had both the vision to perceive

00:23:56.660 that we are fatally off course

00:23:59.520 in a body of principles

00:24:00.940 by which to lay out a truer and wiser one

00:24:04.200 and also let us hope

00:24:06.260 the magnetism by which

00:24:08.020 to gather our people together

00:24:09.480 and lead them out of the death trap

00:24:11.480 they are in. Those who would prepare themselves for such an undertaking had better resolve from

00:24:19.080 the start that they are not going to turn aside from what is difficult, disturbing, or costly,

00:24:23.920 and painful in favor of what confirms them in their pet prejudices and most treasured

00:24:31.000 assumptions, and allow them to go on giving first place to their own security and comfort

00:24:37.400 and peace of mind. When we sit down to read Nietzsche, we are confronted by a man who hungers

00:24:43.380 for the truth and for life at its highest and noblest, was so insatiable that he put aside

00:24:51.440 every lure that might stand in the way of his quest, whether it was money, friends, wife,

00:24:56.540 or influence. And he said to himself, I am not a man. I am dynamite. Let those, therefore,

00:25:03.520 who think to find the truth we need in the old and unusual places,

00:25:08.220 or the answers to the problems that today threaten the very existence of our people

00:25:12.120 without having to strike tent and risk all the rigors and perils of a new climb,

00:25:17.360 let all such skip this chapter, or better yet, close the book right now and forget it.

00:25:23.060 Those who would learn from Nietzsche and be his worthy companion and fellow warriors,

00:25:28.180 no less than those who were moved to go with Jesus 2,000 years ago,

00:25:31.480 must be prepared from the outset to lay down all that they have and all that they are.

00:25:39.480 Let me begin by making it clear at once that Nietzsche undertook no less than a transvaluation

00:25:45.340 of all values, that is, to stand off and from a different angle and elevation, and with

00:25:51.840 at once critical and discerning eye to judge anew the worth of all the values by which

00:25:57.740 the western world had lived for centuries its religious beliefs its moral and social ideals

00:26:04.460 its very virtues he dared challenge man's assumptions that he knew what was good and

00:26:12.440 dared raise the question as regards each belief virtue and ideal who made it good for whom is it

00:26:19.840 good and for what his one concern behind everything he said was for quality of human life

00:26:27.040 and if he attacked it was because for all a certain virtue or idea was hallowed in

00:26:39.880 hoary tradition as given by god he discerned that actually it was tended it tended to weaken and to

00:26:46.740 lower man and if he pointed out new paths it was because he believed that only by such could

00:26:53.660 mankind ascend to the heights that he had in him the power to attain. This concern of Nietzsche's

00:27:00.960 for human life I must put squarely in the forefront of all I have to say about him. For him it was

00:27:07.880 never enough that mankind should merely go on. He must go up. Indeed he longed for the life of man

00:27:14.620 he longed that the life of man should reach an elevation theretofore not only unknown but almost

00:27:20.900 untrimmed this was more than his supreme purpose in all soberness one had has to say it was his

00:27:29.820 one passion never name never woman never wealth but always that mankind might become something

00:27:37.060 more than it had ever been before he might well have said i have come that ye might have life

00:27:43.400 and that ye might have it more exultedly and for this purpose and in the flame of this passion i

00:27:50.400 want to enter yourself yeah I want to interject real quick because mankind is such a general term

00:27:58.580 and like Nietzsche himself says I think in the will to power like humanity is nothing like there

00:28:05.180 is no such thing as humanity like humanity does not progress he says humanity doesn't even exist

00:28:13.240 I don't think that he cares really about like even though I just read that thing about the race being

00:28:18.820 all like especially towards the end of his career and the like later body of his work like he's very

00:28:25.600 concerned about a specific type of man and they are the very rare and I think as far as Nietzsche

00:28:33.480 understands it it's fine if even most of humanity goes down in the sense that they become more

00:28:40.200 subordinated and are even maintained in a state of slavery so long as these like precious few

00:28:48.100 hire men can go higher like I don't think that it's fair or accurate to read Nietzsche as someone

00:28:57.580 who's trying to save mankind he's somebody who's trying to like elevate the type man which means

00:29:05.880 something different than saving all humans or elevating all humans like he wants the the type

00:29:13.680 man to be elevated meaning like it's possible for some men to elevate that type like what it

00:29:22.920 means to be a man to levels that have never before been realized or embodied but that certainly

00:29:29.140 doesn't mean that it's going to work out that way for everybody yes uh the this is kind of the

00:29:36.620 beauty of mankind that like uh but like uh in the 19th century it was like

00:29:43.960 like a very common phrase and then like got abused in the 20th 20th century and well nisha

00:29:52.840 the but nisha very specifically distinguishes his terminology the 19th century when they talked

00:29:59.100 about mankind was talking about an indian untouchable right no well nisha calls them

00:30:06.060 the chandala if he does but he also is very careful to differentiate especially later in his

00:30:11.420 work like between humanity and what he calls the type man like the like man as a type not like

00:30:20.980 humanity as a mass but man is a type and he is concerned with the elevation of the type man but

00:30:27.880 he doesn't he doesn't believe in the progress of humanity like he actually really intentionally

00:30:34.740 differentiates between those two ideas

00:30:36.920 in his writing

00:30:37.660 yes

00:30:40.220 we can thank Nietzsche

00:30:42.860 for making that distinction

00:30:44.360 if only the founding fathers

00:30:47.300 had made that distinction when writing

00:30:48.900 the Declaration of Independence

00:30:50.180 we could have stayed in so much trouble

00:30:52.660 so true, well said

00:30:56.640 that is the core

00:30:58.940 confusion of western philosophy

00:31:00.560 thank you for trying that up

00:31:02.740 absolutely

00:31:02.820 in view of the glow with which this aspiration filled his soul and the ardor and abandon with

00:31:17.560 which he surrendered himself to its realization it should hardly be a matter of surprise that which

00:31:23.720 he turned to confront that when he can turn to confront men as he found them on every side

00:31:31.100 he was often moved to contempt he bore with difficulty the everlasting smallness and

00:31:37.580 meanness of men mauve values seemed to come in complete possession mauve at the top mauve at

00:31:45.160 the bottom he cried he spoke of the power rabble the scribble rabble and the pleasure rabble

00:31:52.000 everywhere men's ideals seem so low their devotion so feeble and their will so weak

00:31:59.000 However, Nietzsche knew that this contempt was a feeling he must overcome.

00:32:03.380 His Zarathustra, who in part was a personification of Nietzsche's own ideal for himself,

00:32:09.660 is referred to as the surmounter of great disgust,

00:32:13.360 and he dies with love and blessing on his lips for all creatures.

00:32:17.980 Indeed, it is evident that this very contempt of Nietzsche's was born of his love.

00:32:22.800 Out of the love alone, he cried, shall my contempt and warning bird take wing.

00:32:27.220 but not out of out of the swap and again what knoweth he of love who hath not been obliged

00:32:36.020 to despise just what he loved and to despise when we love it precisely when we love best

00:32:43.400 he declared to be a higher and sublimer thing than loving one's enemies for him the great despiser

00:32:52.640 despises wherever the great reverers the great adores no one who comes close to nietzsche can

00:33:01.120 doubt that his supreme concern was for life and for life in other men as surely is for life in

00:33:07.280 himself my soul alone is a song of a loving one he says wistfully like a zarathustra he also loved

00:33:14.840 mankind so so i think that that like draws it out like very well that like in order to like

00:33:23.880 kind of despise or like or like have contempt for how someone is living you know you have to believe

00:33:32.120 that they like have the stuff of higher things within them you know yeah or like you know i

00:33:40.200 think what we do not we we is a generous a generous term here but what happens in western

00:33:46.720 civilization right now is that like the inversion of values means that people are being like beaten

00:33:53.660 psychologically from little children to like um elevate what is despised like to deify what is

00:34:04.260 low and ugly and diseased and miserable and to like put that on the altar and worship that as

00:34:11.240 the supreme good and to in that way like the message that you get as a child or as like a

00:34:19.420 person who is of a higher nature or a nobler soul is like you learn to hate in yourself what is good

00:34:27.280 because the culture around you esteems and highly evaluates what is like ugly, diseased,

00:34:33.940 misfortunate, sickly, whatever. And so you have to like break free of that inversion of values

00:34:40.580 to again, love what is beautiful and love what is strong and healthy and well and expansive and

00:34:47.000 like capable of the ascent towards godhood, you know, if you will. And you have to be able to like

00:34:56.040 despise the things that you've been taught and forced and educated and propagandized into loving

00:35:04.800 which are lowly things and ugly things and sick things and misfortunate marginalized whatever

00:35:10.880 the terminology they have for the unfortunate you know you have to learn like no it's actually okay

00:35:17.120 to feel like disgust towards the things that are ill and lowly and sickly and instead to like focus

00:35:26.480 my love onto what is good and beautiful and elevated and capable of further elevation

00:35:32.660 so you have to like be able to follow your intuitive draw towards what is beautiful even

00:35:43.380 though you've been trained from a young age to like honor and love what is ugly and broken

00:35:48.780 instead and then like a deeper step into the sort of mystical initiation if you will is that like

00:35:55.460 you actually do have to love the rabble too it's like they're not it's not good for them

00:36:01.700 to be elevated and to be put on a pedestal and to be preached to constantly that you know life

00:36:09.300 is unfair and they're actually the same as everybody else and other people are just stealing

00:36:13.740 their opportunities from them and abusing them and hurting them for no reason and that the truth is

00:36:18.920 that like everybody is equal and they're just as good as you know even though they're ugly and

00:36:24.080 deformed and sick and feel horrible inside they're just as good as the most beautiful and fortunate

00:36:29.720 and powerful and charming and graceful person that they've ever met like that's actually quite

00:36:35.600 hateful to subject somebody to that kind of cognitive dissonance, because you can feel

00:36:41.480 inside of your sickly body that you're not having the same experience as somebody who's living in a

00:36:46.580 beautiful and well-formed and healthy and vibrant form, like embodiment. And so you have to subject

00:36:54.560 the rabble to like really intense cognitive dissonance. And there's like an enormous amount

00:37:00.000 of cruelty through which you have to convince them to lie to themselves and each other constantly

00:37:07.400 like that is not actually love to them and trying to like tell them that they have all the stuff

00:37:13.660 inside of them to be the king or the queen when really their proper place and the place that's

00:37:18.520 going to feel the best to them is in service is like in a laboring role in a role of like

00:37:27.860 executing the creation of these you know beautiful monumental architectures or these

00:37:34.380 social structures that help to uplift those gods blessed ones and the like the fortunate ones and

00:37:41.300 the beautiful ones like it feels it's like beauty and the beast you know when she goes to the castle

00:37:47.800 and they sing the whole song about how bummed out they are that they don't get to serve because

00:37:52.800 they're servants and it feels good to them to be of service and when they have to languish in that

00:37:59.780 situation of like not being able to fulfill their natural function that disorientation and that

00:38:07.160 dissonance inside of them is it's not it's not good for them like so there is even like a love

00:38:13.320 for people of of less fortune or like a lower natural caste that really like they're they're

00:38:21.900 going to feel the best in their right position. Just like the person, the ruling type is going to

00:38:28.540 feel the best in the ruling position. And Nietzsche says this in the Antichrist in section 57, it's

00:38:35.240 like natural law separates the castes. It's not human law that says like, oh, you are the lower

00:38:41.900 caste and you over here are the higher caste. It's not humans that make that decision. It's

00:38:46.620 nature that decides that and like a law like a caste system just ratifies what nature has already

00:38:55.340 set into place and if you try to go against the caste system and say that everybody actually is

00:39:00.840 equal you're resisting nature and like when you resist nature in that way it's really it's painful

00:39:07.360 and like it's um what's the it deranges people like it creates decay and this is why Nietzsche

00:39:17.280 is always speaking about decadence right because we've entered into a social system that rejects

00:39:24.300 natural law like the true nature of the caste system the true reality that everybody actually

00:39:32.420 is created differently and that rights are only possible if you assume inequality and rights

00:39:39.720 become impossible when you assume equality and that is love like like aligning yourself with

00:39:49.180 true truth and with true nature and like aligning your social organization with the reality of that

00:39:55.680 is the far more loving thing to do for everybody involved up and down the caste ladder

00:40:02.040 than trying to force everybody to lie about everything it's very telling that the most

00:40:09.400 romanticized places like in all fiction are like tribal living uh high school yeah military units

00:40:22.080 medieval castles yeah royal court courts yeah and oh there's one other i was thinking well

00:40:32.380 corporate corporate structures too i mean i know it's not romantic yeah yeah the the office but it

00:40:37.860 has to be like specifically a culturally homogenous like basically mono-ethnic culture

00:40:44.700 like i know the the tv show the office like it is technically multicultural but no one actually has

00:40:51.260 an accent in the office right even the black character is the whitest black character in any

00:40:56.880 show right you know mandy calling is like has like the the most like california white girl soul

00:41:06.560 of like any won't indian woman has ever achieved well and she's also the like jester like she has

00:41:13.140 her appropriate position in the court she's not playing the princess she's playing the fool and

00:41:18.760 it works because that's her ethnically appropriate position yes and it's uh like and

00:41:28.000 importantly for the office like almost no one leaves which like is not actually how corporate

00:41:35.180 life works in the modern world like uh like um modern corporate life you have to be like job

00:41:41.460 hopping every six months or else you're like really falling behind on what you should be earning

00:41:47.000 and like they will like screw you over as soon as they realize that like you have like this

00:41:53.680 conception of loyalty that can be exploited uh uh like like modern corporate life is like

00:42:01.360 this like nightmarish hell hellscape compared to like what is depicted in all these uh

00:42:09.100 and all these like fantasy sitcoms and like what it is and like what what the bar is in older

00:42:16.200 sitcoms is it's like you it's like uh a tribal like drinking hall or it's like a medieval court

00:42:29.080 you know they all show up and they all talk to this barkeeper who's so uh who's so wise uh but

00:42:37.760 that the story is so like it's so it's a myth right and it tells the truth and then certain

00:42:43.200 people get their hands on those myths and they pervert them and try to turn the story into like

00:42:48.660 everybody deserves to be the princess like nobody should have to have any other role

00:42:53.320 except for princess like all girls are princesses and it's like no then the whole

00:42:57.820 the whole erotic charge of the story is dissipated if they're this is something

00:43:03.560 Nietzsche speaks to right of like the pathos of distance he speaks about the Greek nobility as

00:43:10.520 experiencing this like gigantic difference between themselves and the people who were their slaves

00:43:18.320 and like that we don't even know what that feels like anymore but it's a hallmark of nobility is

00:43:24.920 that you feel yourself to be like it's such a remove from everybody else there is like the

00:43:31.640 hierarchy is a vertical infrastructure and there has to be distance between rank and rank and he

00:43:39.340 says in another place right like a healthy well-functioning society is a pyramid and it has

00:43:44.800 to be erected on a wide base like these are all these very geometrical spatial concerns about

00:43:52.060 stacking stacking things and growing things to like creating a taller pedestal on the top of

00:44:01.360 which the very privileged few can stand and sort of move through that I guess mystical union with

00:44:08.460 but it's not christian it's like it's apotheosis it's like god's men becoming gods i like it's

00:44:17.280 the tower of babel story right but it's not told from like cinderella like yes like cinderella is

00:44:24.160 about like a a downwardsly mobile uh like like noble woman girl yeah girl uh like like it this

00:44:36.840 is where it's important that's like a french german story because she's like like i'm all

00:44:41.340 certain she's a berger like uh which is actually the origin of the term bourgeois which was like

00:44:46.700 a like her family was like like uh this kind of arms holding like

00:44:53.000 like like craftsman middle class they're like they lived in good houses and like had some

00:45:01.400 position where like in some cities like legally required to bear arms that like if you sold your

00:45:08.020 sword you could actually be like fined or like lose your position but uh like is not like noble 0.99

00:45:14.700 and is not leadered uh you know she has to perform the manual labor in the house not a servant 1.00

00:45:21.940 and and through her like virtue and beauty like she's able to attend attend the ball which like 1.00

00:45:31.900 her station allows her to attend the ball anyway because her stepsisters attend 10 and then 0.91

00:45:38.560 because she's virtuous and beauty beautiful like the prince selects flexed her and like the male

00:45:45.560 of this of course is that you go to war and you come back like an elite officer or like you come

00:45:53.720 back like like getting wed into the royal family as like a marshal of france or whatnot and like

00:46:00.160 this is where like western societies were actually like highly like in a way that would like probably

00:46:07.860 shock most modern people were like incredibly highly uh like meritocratic and like had a lot

00:46:15.960 of social mobility but the way you're socially mobile was like marriage and warfare and and that

00:46:24.760 was how you moved up or down and that was like what kind of the life of ambitious young people

00:46:29.340 was centered around and because like you know war was a constant and because like there's a

00:46:36.980 high mortality rate just from like being alive uh that was very doable and also this is where like

00:46:45.160 like jews and a lot of outsiders like despise and resent ancient europe because marriage and

00:46:51.820 warfare well what's what are the like two categories that like they can't really compete

00:46:57.720 on they jews refuse to duel that actually there's a lot of comments that dueling was gotten rid of

00:47:04.560 like by the nobility that dueling was gotten rid of because Jews wouldn't stand for a duel

00:47:09.920 like over a matter of honor and um and marriage well like um like obviously like to this day like 1.00

00:47:21.060 Jewish women are getting like tons of cosmetic surgeries because they 1.00

00:47:24.900 they aren't perceived to you or don't feel that they measure up in that way

00:47:30.540 But it's so wonderful that like the sexual marketplaces, though, one of the last holdouts where like you can't you can't just say you can't just say a bunch of propaganda phrases that force people to like submit to your belief that you're equally good to anybody else.

00:47:52.860 like uh you'd be surprised the cell left-wing sex works like uh yeah but they're they i don't think

00:48:01.740 that's sex though they're just like rubbing their genitals together there's no there's no eros there

00:48:07.440 but like if you want to be involved in like an actual erotic exchange with somebody like you

00:48:12.780 cannot trick them into thinking that you have value and that's where like yeah people do the

00:48:19.580 cosmetic surgeries and they like brow beat people into like rubbing genitals together with them

00:48:25.940 but there's no eros there it's just like mutual masturbation and so they're not you can't trick

00:48:31.840 people but uh one of the guys i'm going to be interesting interviewing soon uh was a toronto

00:48:40.540 bouncer who has many many stories about uh the early pickup artist movement that was

00:48:48.040 in toronto and the people he insists were way more successful than the pickup artists

00:48:55.820 uh the lesbians

00:48:57.580 that's revolting yes the things he saw uh as a bouncer can be fascinating but then

00:49:08.840 whoever they won it's like the means determine the end if you will like or the

00:49:17.360 that's like the quality of the person whatever they do whatever they win

00:49:22.560 the whatever they do or win has only the quality or the value that they themselves have so like if

00:49:28.460 you can trick somebody into being your girlfriend having sex with you whatever like the person that

00:49:33.660 you actually win still only resonates on the same level of soul that you do and like however they

00:49:39.560 appear to the world whatever you know like social value they may have the like value of their soul

00:49:45.200 or the quality of their soul and the quality of the experience that you're going to have with them

00:49:49.780 it's not a cinderella story feeling it's not a fairy tale feeling it's not it's not the feeling

00:49:56.160 that everybody is trying to get a hold of when they imagine themselves in these romantic situations

00:50:01.260 like it's not erotic it's just sex it's just like a hookup it's just a lay but like the internal

00:50:09.920 experience of that or the internal feeling of that experience is not it's not satisfying that's why

00:50:15.960 they're never satisfied it's not nourishing it's not beautiful it doesn't make them feel powerful

00:50:20.700 like it just it just scratches an itch that later becomes even more itchy because they haven't

00:50:28.360 actually gotten what they crave which is that feeling of like a true meeting like a true

00:50:33.900 recognition of two souls of the highest caliber like laying eyes on one another and the whole

00:50:40.660 universe just like explodes with pleasure at these two people finding each other like the feeling of

00:50:46.980 that experience cannot be faked it cannot be stolen it it's not like something that you can

00:50:54.720 pretend your way to it's a gift from the gods and there is no way to trick the gods into giving it

00:51:01.200 to you I mean maybe you can trick the gods in giving you he hormonal health to experience it

00:51:07.100 like the absolutely love at first sight like uh like you know uh every cell in your body pulling

00:51:15.860 you towards a person like like you have to be very young or very fit to experience it

00:51:22.340 very fortunate

00:51:24.340 cario and lifting your listeners

00:51:27.420 you need both

00:51:28.260 and luck

00:51:31.100 and luck

00:51:32.760 and the grace of the gods

00:51:34.060 you're predetermined for love at first sight

00:51:38.700 you can't necessarily

00:51:40.060 work your way

00:51:41.600 to earning that

00:51:42.980 very much so

00:51:45.780 continuing on with the

00:51:47.920 simpson

00:51:48.360 but for Nietzsche

00:51:50.560 what was great in man was that he was a bridge and not a goal a bridge between the animal and

00:51:58.200 the superman the level that man has reached was not the end his destiny when realized would place

00:52:05.680 him as far above the mankind of today as the this mankind is about the animal but to Nietzsche it

00:52:11.900 seemed that in the modern world man's fate hung in the balance he was like a rope over an abyss

00:52:18.600 a dangerous crossing, a dangerous looking back, a dangerous trembling and halting.

00:52:26.100 There were times when man seemed to doubt whether he had the requisite vision and strength to

00:52:31.460 fulfill his potentialities. Nietzsche threw in his whole strength, his whole self, to give man

00:52:38.520 courage to believe that his way was on and up. He set man's goal before him concrete and luminous,

00:52:45.920 like a towering mountain pea whose snow-covered summit is bathed in the calm, clear light of the

00:52:51.860 rising sun. He created his ideal of the Superman. This was Nietzsche's supreme absorption. The

00:52:59.420 Superman I have at heart, that is the first and only thing to me, and not man, not the neighbor,

00:53:05.920 not the poorest, not the sorriest, not the best. What I can love in man is that he is an overgoing

00:53:13.580 and a death down going that is one who seeks to create beyond himself and to this end is willing

00:53:20.580 that he himself should to come so that's it that's a interesting dichotomy that it's like

00:53:28.640 not just aspiring upwards but it's like a willingness to risk which um our culture has

00:53:36.480 like fought to beat out of people oh my gosh the safetyism yes someone said that the canadian

00:53:45.860 dream was to get rich without risking anything yeah uh which it's really like now the world dream

00:53:54.580 yeah dream this is considered a great defect of canadian culture like back windows said in like

00:54:01.820 the 70s, and now is like the story of everywhere. Nietzsche's idea of the Superman has been grossly

00:54:11.920 misunderstood. It has been caricatured in comic sheets and held up for ridicule, but actually it

00:54:18.580 was the rebirthed Nietzsche of a very ancient ideal. The word translated from the German

00:54:23.300 original really means the beyond man, or that which will be above and beyond anything we know

00:54:29.440 of is human now ye lonesome ones of today ye succeeding ones she shall one day be a people

00:54:36.400 out of you who have chosen yourself shall shall chosen people arise and out of it the superman

00:54:43.260 zarathustra is the prefiguration and personification of the kind of being

00:54:48.640 nietzsche believed would walk the earth when mankind had more nearly realized his possibilities

00:54:56.120 Nietzsche described him as the Roman Caesar with the soul of Christ,

00:55:00.760 the wedding together in one man of the uttermost strength and the uttermost tenderness.

00:55:05.840 He speaks of the Superman is displaying the unity and power of the creator,

00:55:10.540 of the creator, the lover, and the knight of knowledge,

00:55:14.940 a man of the greatest serenity, wisdom, and kindness.

00:55:18.800 He will come like a perfectly Epicurean God, as a transfigurer of existence.

00:55:25.520 with love for the smallest and narrowest thing he will ever be one who perceives under any and

00:55:33.080 all circumstances that the heart of the earth is of gold that all things are baptized at the

00:55:41.000 font of eternity and beyond good and evil and out of the fullness of his yea-saying instincts

00:55:47.660 who'll declare that the world is perfect to this end superman superman must live alone very

00:55:55.260 austerely apart from the mass of men yet venerated by them and informing the whole society with their

00:56:01.780 wisdom they are not at all men of brute force conquerors or dictators they are not even men

00:56:07.940 who exercise rule force does not rest in their hands they are more like the pilots on the bridge

00:56:13.740 who determine the way the ship must go,

00:56:17.320 while the actual handling of the crew and passengers is left to others.

00:56:21.660 It is their function to discover and declare the way mankind must follow

00:56:25.420 in order to realize its high destiny.

00:56:28.180 They're the great value creators, the great wayfinders and wayshowers.

00:56:35.460 And so, dear listeners, you at home,

00:56:40.180 I want you to have two figures in mind when you think of the Superman.

00:56:43.740 one is like the kind of like american like least offensive version of of superman which is of

00:56:51.640 course superman himself like in a way you know the character of superman in the comic books

00:56:57.500 is like well we can achieve this perfectly if we just give him like infinite power that like you

00:57:03.700 know none of the contradictions have to be resolved if he can just be like you know the

00:57:09.420 chi wilker's friendly guy from like kansas like perfectly doing all this because he has an

00:57:17.860 infinite power nothing gonna hurt him you know that's how one way to resolve is the contradiction

00:57:22.360 the other figure to think about is kittler uh the fear principle if you like actually like look at

00:57:31.940 nazi like doctrine uh does resemble nietzsche's description of like the pilot on the bridge who

00:57:41.060 determines the way the ship must go while the actual handling of the crew and passengers is

00:57:45.680 left to others like uh like uh like the fear of principle of germany was like kind of

00:57:55.520 jockingly hands-off in a way that uh all of the like nazi apparatus for like

00:58:03.680 conceive themselves as working towards the fear was the term they used that like there was this

00:58:10.540 this incredible like lack of direction which in some ways uh like fell apart at the extreme top

00:58:21.000 as the war went on depending on like which reading of uh of of like nazi high command you

00:58:28.580 you take to be like the true reading but uh there was at least in the doctrine and like the

00:58:37.060 like official theory a lot of this conception and you can you can argue like to what extent like uh

00:58:46.680 um like hitler would be a perversion or a um or a fulfillment or a exemplar like like flawed

00:58:58.660 exemplar or or how you want to interpret that but i i always found those two like comparisons

00:59:07.060 very interesting because like of course hitler is not a like dictator or or conqueror in like

00:59:18.460 the narrowest sense sally the official structure wasn't technically a dictatorship they had their

00:59:25.600 own word for it and he wasn't conquer in like the most technical realms he was he was unifying

00:59:32.960 uh the lost lands and like like uh he was technically officially going to return france

00:59:40.900 to rule and it's like like kind of those are the extreme outer bounds you know dc superman and

00:59:47.960 germany's austria's hitler i think um what's remarkable about hitler and harkens back to

00:59:58.400 something that Simpson said in the second paragraph about, let us hope that this, you know,

01:00:04.780 this leader we're hoping for, let us hope that he will have the magnetism by which to gather

01:00:09.560 our people together and lead them out of the death trap that they are in. I think, I don't

01:00:14.440 know if I would necessarily agree with Hitler as a paradigm of the Superman, but he certainly was

01:00:18.920 a very charismatic character and it's not something that Nietzsche had. He was not, I mean,

01:00:25.920 And I think he was a very graceful man, but he wasn't known as somebody who could, like, gather, rally a bunch of people together to do, to, like, enact his vision.

01:00:35.280 And neither was Zarathustra, right?

01:00:37.400 Like, Zarathustra went down into the marketplace to sort of try to give his gift to mankind.

01:00:42.080 And everyone just laughed at him or ignored him.

01:00:44.620 And he ran around that little world that Nietzsche created for Zarathustra to experience.

01:00:52.360 and like he ended up deciding to go back up onto his mountain like that's how the novel ends he

01:00:58.020 retreats in a way back to his solitude and even the men who are able to go up on the mountain

01:01:03.900 with him he can't really find a chord with them like he's still he does overcome his pity or his

01:01:10.300 disgust rather at the end of the novel but he is still he is alone he is in his solitude at the end

01:01:16.260 And I think you can make an argument for Nietzsche as a writer of like a, you know, like a visionary of some sort of political movement or, you know, that he has his own republic in mind in the platonic sense of that word.

01:01:33.080 But he, as a personality and, you know, his ideal in Zarathustra, we're never able to really accomplish any kind of group formation.

01:01:45.240 And there is that tension in Nietzsche's writings where, like, he realizes more and more as he moves through his life that, like, it's just him.

01:01:52.880 He's the only person that he ever meets until the day he dies who shares his sentiment, who shares his felt experience, who feels like he feels, who is of the same caliber of soul as he is.

01:02:08.460 But then he also writes at length in many other parts of his works about like, yeah, how do we, like what would it look like if you were creating a society that could actually elevate these types of like higher men and maybe bridge that gap over which the rope is stretched so that the race can, at least in a handful of its people, become beyond man, like become supermen.

01:02:37.740 so he is thinking about and like exploring what how does society be organized to give birth to

01:02:45.360 the superman but also finding himself to be unable to like coagulate any group of people around that

01:02:53.940 vision yeah no well this is the eternal experience of uh of people think the prophet would know uh

01:03:07.900 yeah absolutely uh the prophet would know no followers

01:03:16.040 But, uh, continuing with Simpson, for us, with the background of democracy and the tradition that all men are equal and that the direction of affairs should be in the hands of men elected by popular vote, this conception of the Superman may lack appeal, if it be not actually offensive.

01:03:46.040 But as I've already observed, Harold Lasky, communist though he was, declared many years ago that democracy must ultimately go to ruin unless it could find some way in which to produce men of the greatest wisdom.

01:03:58.700 Set them apart from the life of the crowd in the most complete aloofness from its tawdry aspirations and petty concerns and attach to them the utmost reverence and authority.

01:04:09.680 so this is interesting because this is actually

01:04:15.860 this is a hobby horse of mine but like every theorist of democracy uh comes to the same

01:04:22.960 conclusion that like basically you need a like technocratic elite that will like live in leisure

01:04:30.820 and be set apart from like the democratic people which is fascinating because like the reason

01:04:37.380 basically the reason every western democracy exists is because uh you had there were such men

01:04:44.800 well largely because you had a highly virtuous population who like uh naturally produced such

01:04:54.400 men but also did not want any like official version of that even in theory because like if

01:05:00.760 you want if you want like aloof uh leisured men who uh concern themselves with the matter of like

01:05:10.040 philosophy and governance all day uh there's an institution that produces that it's called a royal

01:05:14.980 court you know you like the royal family they attract followers to them and they create this

01:05:20.740 leisured aristocracy around them that just concerns themselves with governance and war

01:05:26.160 and philosophy and art at all times and you know ways to make to have mistresses but in like

01:05:34.620 the most like genteely tolerable way possible and stuff and like you know this is what napoleon

01:05:45.300 created you know this is like like you establish a court around like a conqueror and then that's

01:05:51.860 what's produced the reason that like democracies existed in the western world is because um

01:05:57.340 is because like you had this frontier uh populace that was you know highly virtuous in their own

01:06:07.320 right because they had to be who did not want that because like um they talk about this in uh

01:06:15.600 like 18th and 19th century america i think it's uh de tocqueville talks about this like a

01:06:22.640 a plowman like with a book that they could like read a book while they were plowing

01:06:28.780 the field and like these highly virtuous uh uh pioneer populations that like crop up

01:06:38.100 And, like, America in Canada, Canada had its own, like, backwoodsmen rebelling in 1837 that, like, the rebelling failed, but, like, Canada was basically structured around the rebelling anyway.

01:06:52.200 They all became politicians.

01:06:55.880 Rhodesia was like this.

01:06:57.760 All of them are, like, democracy specifically because it's like, well, we already have that class of people.

01:07:03.120 It's called the population.

01:07:04.960 Right.

01:07:05.440 Well, and the thing is, like Nietzsche himself says, I distrust all systematizers.

01:07:11.160 And the reason for that is that system, like if you try to systematize something like that,

01:07:17.040 if you try to create a bureaucracy that will like generate these new noble types for the

01:07:24.940 future ruling class of the democracy, then the system almost immediately corrupts, like

01:07:30.020 it's so vulnerable to parasitism.

01:07:32.020 and this is what is this is what western democracies are now it's like systems that

01:07:38.800 were put in place to like allow for such people to exist but immediately it gets overrun by maggots

01:07:46.060 and cockroaches and then you have maggots and cockroaches as the ruling class you know so

01:07:52.320 you can't really like and like i mentioned earlier like a republic in the platonic sense

01:07:58.760 like this has been a concern of philosophers for millennia now is like how do we create a system

01:08:05.620 that produces a worthy ruling class because you know one of the people that people one of the

01:08:11.580 reasons that people have such resentment towards the hierarchy or the concept of like a king for

01:08:16.960 example is that the system is so vulnerable to that parasitic invasion that you end up with

01:08:23.120 cockroaches on the throne and it puts the entire like institution into disrepute because you get

01:08:29.580 bad rulers and because people's minds are so dialectic like the typical human mind is just

01:08:35.780 just a basically a dialectical machine of like it's either this or it's that they see that there's

01:08:42.280 a bad king on the throne and the conclusion that they draw is oh well the throne is bad the monarchy

01:08:47.540 is bad like kingship is bad instead of being able to recognize like no it's actually we just

01:08:53.020 got a dud here because the system has been overrun by parasites so like historically it

01:08:59.420 doesn't work like none of those institutions for creating new ruling classes work because the

01:09:04.360 institutions get overrun by parasites so it is up to chance like it is up to fate in a lot of ways

01:09:10.800 for those people to choose themselves and I do think that that's who Nietzsche is writing to

01:09:16.640 like he's kind of participating in trying to create that institution of selecting out the

01:09:22.140 type of men who are worthy of rule and have the necessary vision and strength of will to steer

01:09:27.360 the ship and to decide where humanity as a mass is headed and in this way and only in this way

01:09:34.000 is i i think is nietzsche concerned about like the future of humanity or the future of mankind

01:09:39.420 and i think what he kind of bemoans or what he mourns is the possibility that humanity is

01:09:46.140 becoming such like a parasite like species like everybody is so depraved and degraded and decadent

01:09:55.540 that it will become impossible even by the greatest stroke of chance for any good man

01:10:02.340 to be produced by humanity so that like there is it's just like cockroaches like left right

01:10:11.520 and center and there isn't even there isn't even the material necessary for that like lightning

01:10:17.940 strike of fate to come down and like deify even one man or even a very small group of men to be

01:10:26.260 elevated on the pyramid of the social system and to like rule and to guide and to have a vision

01:10:33.380 about where humanity should go so don't think Nietzsche is concerned about like the well-being

01:10:39.740 of humanity per se but like haven't we all got ourselves into a situation now and he felt himself

01:10:47.560 to be in that situation already in the 1870s where like the culture quote-unquote that we have

01:10:54.940 now can only produce mold like there is no way to even grow a human being out of this culture

01:11:03.220 Like all you have is fungus. That's all that's capable of being born here. And so, so where will the, where will the overman even come from when humanity has degraded to such a state?

01:11:15.960 I might have you

01:11:24.420 on the podcast to discuss

01:11:26.700 a film at some point

01:11:28.620 that has exactly

01:11:30.180 this theme in relation to

01:11:32.280 courts and

01:11:33.460 republics

01:11:36.460 Union of Salvation

01:11:39.260 the Russian film

01:11:40.300 that I recommend all the time

01:11:42.420 is exactly about this theme

01:11:44.020 but that will be another episode

01:11:47.780 back to you simpson on the other hand the picture of the superman that i have presented

01:11:55.000 largely nietzsche's own words may have struck some of my readers as so fanciful as to be little more

01:12:01.360 than a myth but i am by no means one to smith smith as a frail and useless thing rather i

01:12:08.220 incline to believe that before any people has become a great people, perhaps before any people

01:12:14.140 has ever even come into being, it has been necessary that hang over itself a star, a sense

01:12:21.520 of destiny, some deeply rooted faith as to the meaning of its existence. Consider for a moment

01:12:27.360 the significance for the ancient Jews of their belief in the Messiah. Remember how calmly through

01:12:35.460 through long centuries the prospective mother pondered whether it might be her privilege to

01:12:40.820 give him birth or recall the jews belief that between themselves and jehovah there was a covenant

01:12:46.820 contract and that from all the children of men they were his chosen people it was not at all

01:12:54.040 necessary that their beliefs have foundation in reality as a matter of fact i am convinced that

01:13:00.100 they did not the important thing was that this faith held them together called forth to profound

01:13:06.360 discreet of power and shaped and pointed them to one end except for this belief which jews have

01:13:12.140 held through thousands of years they will long ago have completely disappeared as a people

01:13:17.100 uh i would like to point out that um interjecting that if you read the iliad or like any ancient

01:13:25.360 greek text uh children of gods are just everywhere in ancient greece yeah uh there's some speculation

01:13:35.840 that there might have been like like a fertility ritual or a sexual ritual that like if a woman

01:13:41.760 got pregnant at one of these like odd like things it was just like oh a god was born

01:13:48.140 but or like uh this was how like noble families would be like oh yes our daughter got pregnant

01:13:54.580 know what lock it was god whatever and that like you know if he had the wealth to like 1.00

01:14:01.880 well i want to interject and say that okay so someone some clever bitch like came up with that 0.99

01:14:09.420 idea and i'll tell you where she got it from and then it was co-opted by parasites just like all 1.00

01:14:15.040 of these institutions for creating the ruling class are because there's some woman along the 1.00

01:14:20.520 way there that was like magnificent and beautiful and self-possessed and had like enormous reverence 1.00

01:14:26.680 for herself and just felt herself to be a divine vessel like she experienced herself as the womb 0.92

01:14:33.960 of a god and she in some way that was probably a little bit outside of the like custom like the

01:14:41.160 marriage custom and the mating custom she came into contact with with a like soul with an equally

01:14:47.380 noble soul and a man who felt himself in that same way to be divine who like radiated power

01:14:54.660 and bestowed light and gold like a sun like like a beehive of honey like you know everybody like

01:15:02.380 dear reader if you don't mind like you know that you've met people like that in your life that are

01:15:06.780 god-like like they're just radiating so much beauty and power you feel that they're not quite

01:15:13.440 human like there's something about them that you don't feel and that isn't part of your experience

01:15:19.240 like they're above you in that way it's like these two people found each other at some point

01:15:23.980 and made sex and made a baby in a way that wasn't quite socially sanctioned but like she felt

01:15:29.940 herself to be a god or like worthy of a god and she felt that that man was so worthy and so powerful

01:15:39.620 that he was by all accounts like for all intents and purposes that he was a god and it's a myth

01:15:47.320 right it's not factual that she had sex with a god but it's a story that expresses and conveys

01:15:53.780 a feeling state that the the ecstatic sexual union that these two incredibly powerful healthy

01:16:01.640 and beautiful people shared together was so like out of the usual it was so beyond the pale

01:16:08.160 and beyond the norm that like the erotic charge and intensity of that union certainly had to have

01:16:17.200 created a baby that was not just like every other baby like when you experience and feel

01:16:24.500 erotic intensity that strong for sure it goes into your child like for sure that this that

01:16:31.900 that like erotic attraction between a man and a woman I think is what creates a soul so if it's

01:16:36.920 like a very high level charge between two very powerful creatures then the soul that

01:16:43.240 imbues like the meaning of that child's body is special like it's above it's at a higher level and

01:16:52.920 it's that child is experiencing its existence in a totally different realm of feeling than most

01:16:59.420 people are and like it wasn't true maybe that she like literally met Zeus or whatever but but she

01:17:08.220 told the story like it felt like it like the man who put that baby in her felt like a god and she

01:17:13.780 felt like she was receiving the child of a god and like it was true in that one case right and

01:17:19.980 so she conveyed it in that story of being impregnated by a god and then like I said like

01:17:24.840 any other sort of institution you have for creating rulers it gets it's very easy to parasite because

01:17:32.260 anyone can just parrot what she said and say oh yeah i got you know i got impregnated by a god too

01:17:39.220 and because like i said people's minds to be fair to be fair like uh the the chad who pumps and

01:17:48.820 dumped you is still like going to be towards the extreme upper end of what you could hypothetically

01:17:57.800 pull, right? Right. Absolutely. He's going to feel like a god to you, right? But it depends on the

01:18:03.520 value of the woman, right? Like someone who feels like a god to a slave is just like a normal person

01:18:09.120 probably. So if you're really going to create a very exceptional person, you have to have a very

01:18:14.440 high quality woman who's pulling a man at the very high end of what she's capable of pulling

01:18:19.440 like still it's like these people are still vibrating at a much higher frequency even if you 0.93

01:18:25.120 know she pumped and dumped her you know that's a crude way of putting it even if it's true but

01:18:30.480 it's still the the the experience of being pumped and dumped by a woman of supreme beauty and power

01:18:37.420 is still better than the experience of being pumped and dumped by just some regular old 0.80

01:18:42.100 slag. So it's not, like I said earlier in our phone call, it's not the action. You don't

01:18:51.180 evaluate the action. You evaluate the person. It's not what is done that determines whether

01:18:56.780 it's good or bad. It's the person who does it that determines the goodness or badness of the

01:19:01.140 action. It's like a beautiful woman getting pumped and dumped by a man who is so exceptional

01:19:06.920 is still like going to create a more beautiful and powerful child than just like your typical

01:19:13.640 peasant getting pumped and dumped by some you know some douchebag who just like happens to have

01:19:20.560 money because he inherited it or but doesn't actually have any wealth of soul

01:19:25.440 but anyways it's very easy to just rip that off to rip that story off and to like say that that's

01:19:32.400 what happened to you and to start making all these claims and then you have to prove it right because

01:19:36.840 there's all these conflicting and competing claims of like no my child is a divine child no mine is

01:19:42.700 no mine is and then there has to be some sort of measure is like how the child performs in war

01:19:48.020 right exactly they are uh exactly right which like exactly right curves in uh in king arthur that um

01:19:58.320 they're like this there are several stories of like like peasant son sons uh being usually fit

01:20:06.800 and like Merlin uncovering no no no this is actually the bastard child of King Pelner

01:20:11.980 so we've got it we've got to give him armor and give him a horse like he's not meant to be here

01:20:17.040 but it's like trial by combat exactly it's trial by combat the proof is in the pudding right but

01:20:23.320 you get into like institutions like we have now where the underlying value is that oh everybody's

01:20:28.640 equal so anybody can make this claim to being like specially deserving of a rulership position

01:20:33.840 and there's no way like there's no actual combat for people to enter into where the gods can you

01:20:40.400 know make their judgment known about the true quality of that person or their worthiness for

01:20:44.580 the throne or the sword or whatever bring back the combat we i agree back on fire but i agree

01:20:51.840 anyway back to simpson in light of nietzsche's idea of the superman it is seen that the proper

01:20:59.180 objective of any society was not the greatest happiness of the greatest number, or the green

01:21:04.360 meadow of happiness of the herd, as he styled the aim of Christianity and democracy. For Nietzsche,

01:21:10.980 the only proper, or certainly the primary, object of any society was the production of the largest

01:21:16.720 possible number of superior men. With Walt Whitman, he would have said, produce great persons,

01:21:23.340 the rest will follow. Produce great men and put them at the helm, and their wisdom will make your

01:21:30.120 society stable, enduring, and happy. And their creative powers as seers, philosophers, artists,

01:21:36.060 and the like will make your society significant and its name glorious. But the goal of any people

01:21:42.120 set before itself more or less determines the means for reaching it. And so it was with Nietzsche.

01:21:47.740 Let me now give you some typical examples of the way he felt institutions must be shaped if a people was to produce supermen.

01:21:57.980 To begin with, he believed that no people can lift itself by its bootstraps.

01:22:02.420 They cannot escape what they stand on, and they stand on their legs.

01:22:05.800 That is, he stressed the importance of the physical.

01:22:09.240 Such a thing as a soul without body was outside human experience.

01:22:12.880 physical mental and what we have come to call spiritual each was but an artificial aspect of

01:22:20.820 what in reality was one organic hole and in a world that has long over emphasized the spiritual

01:22:27.960 Nietzsche found it necessary to emphasize the importance of sound vigorous instincts and bodily

01:22:33.040 health and beauty of diet family blood and race inevitably therefore he emphasized the preponderant

01:22:39.940 importance, a breed of heredity in determining the development of the individual. In consequence,

01:22:48.800 the primary purpose of the family was to bring forth children who would be able to go farther

01:22:53.220 and higher than their parents. Men and women whose marriage could not be expected to do this should

01:22:58.640 not be entitled to marry. On the other hand, marriage between well-matched couples of a

01:23:05.100 people's best youth should in every way be encouraged and likewise the greatest possible

01:23:10.380 reproduction from them that might be consistent with the health of the mother and the health and

01:23:15.260 best rearing of the offspring yeah i want to interject real quick i think that merit like

01:23:21.100 if i was writing my republic i would start here too and so did plato you always start with breeding

01:23:27.000 because it's the fundamental concern of any culture and i think a lot of our problems would

01:23:33.440 be solved if we defined marriage as only those unions that bring forth children like which just

01:23:41.960 basically disqualifies everybody who can't do that and adopting doesn't count so you can't you

01:23:48.120 are you are not married like your union is not legitimated by the state unless you're bringing

01:23:56.140 forth children and like those children survive and both the man and the woman like stay committed to

01:24:03.260 raising rearing those children and there would have to be more rules i guess about the quality

01:24:08.060 of the children that are produced but you're not married if you're not making a family

01:24:12.980 marriage is for building lineage marriage is for building a future marriage is for

01:24:17.980 creating children and otherwise you're just like whatever you can live with someone forever if you

01:24:23.400 want to but you're not afforded the honor of being married as to what constitutes well matched in

01:24:31.540 marriage. A unique and monumental study has been made by the Nietzsche's sociologist,

01:24:37.460 Anthony M. Mluddovici, in his book, The Choice of the Mate. Again, Nietzsche stressed the importance

01:24:45.120 of diet. Anyone who may be irked by the mere mention of the subject would do well to take

01:24:50.320 a good luck at Dr. Weston A. Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, which in measured words

01:24:57.840 was pronounced by Professor E. A. Hooten of Harvard

01:25:02.020 as a profoundly significant book.

01:25:05.340 It reveals how the direct decadence,

01:25:07.700 not only physical but mental and spiritual,

01:25:10.420 can apparently be precipitated

01:25:12.080 and will hold people with the most fatal certainty

01:25:14.520 by little or nothing more than what they put in their mouths

01:25:17.760 or fail to put in their mouths.

01:25:19.960 One reason that Sillai's man is the sickest animal

01:25:22.900 on the face of the earth

01:25:23.900 is that he does not eat the right food.

01:25:26.720 In fact, most people today do not know what right food is and perhaps could not get it if they did.

01:25:32.840 I want to remind you that he's writing in the 1970s that we look back on as like this pinnacle of like health and like, oh, like the burgers were healthy back then.

01:25:42.860 The fries were cooked in beef tallow.

01:25:44.720 and he's like to be quite frank like uh like I think a lot of the reactions to like

01:25:54.580 food stuff is actually like people coming from like rural cultures where like uh you know your

01:26:00.980 entire diet it's brought up from the land and like you have like this uh entire set of like

01:26:07.040 different foods that you eat you know picking the berries out of the bush yourself like during the

01:26:11.600 right season and come to an urban environment or like it's very trivial in urban environments

01:26:18.720 the same way it is like on a ship to just develop the most bizarre like nutritional

01:26:24.080 deficits because like everything's like artificially brought to you uh everything

01:26:31.540 everything's like process in some way is like trivial to develop both nutritional deficits and

01:26:40.520 like calorie excesses and like well diets like anything can be ranked on a hierarchy right so

01:26:51.520 it's definitely better to be living in a rural environment where you are involved in growing

01:26:56.400 your food but maybe you're still eating a lot of grain crops because that's what you that's what

01:27:01.520 supports the peasant class like you have to have grain crops to have peasants but like it's also

01:27:07.580 a better diet still if you are the ruling elite and you're living mostly off of meat and dairy

01:27:14.040 products like that's obviously ideal but the number of people that are alive on this planet

01:27:19.500 there's no way possibly that everybody could subsist largely on dairy and meat products so

01:27:25.020 it's like the elite few get to have that kind of diet and then the like less elite but still

01:27:31.660 relatively elite get to eat like real food like fruits and vegetables and whole grains and stuff

01:27:38.380 and that's it's this it's an inferior diet to eating meat and dairy but it's certainly better

01:27:43.200 than eating like frankenfood that comes in cellophane and is just seed oils and genetically

01:27:50.240 modified grain crops like it's the untouchable cast that has to eat that kind of food

01:27:56.060 now uh continuing one reason that civilized man is the sickest animal on the face of the

01:28:05.160 earth is that he does not eat the right food in fact most people today do not know what right

01:28:10.500 food is and perhaps could not get it if they did even the great body of doctors are grossly

01:28:15.820 ignorant medicine is negative but merely remedial rather than positive and preventative

01:28:23.060 We hear too much of pills, x-ray, and surgery.

01:28:26.540 Almost nowhere are the people told that if they are ever to be well, they have got to live right,

01:28:32.960 and that an important part of living right is eating right.

01:28:36.560 Verily, we are paying a tragic price for age-long tradition that the body does not matter.

01:28:41.640 We have got so used to being sick that we do not realize how sick we are,

01:28:46.520 And we are so unashamed of being sick that almost nothing can be said that will arouse people even to the subject of their diet to examination.

01:28:56.540 Yet all our bodies is filled to our whole superstructure of character, intellect, spirit, and culture.

01:29:04.360 When that goes, everything else goes with it.

01:29:06.460 I simply do not believe after the studies that I've been that I've made I cannot believe they

01:29:12.180 can get great wisdom and enduring culture even plain healthy judgment about the value of life

01:29:16.940 from people shot through with disease as we are uh sorry go right ahead yeah just the word we is

01:29:24.780 doing a lot of work in the sentences too because it's it doesn't matter what historical age you

01:29:30.820 look at if there's any form of sedentary culture whatever the slaves are eating the most garbage

01:29:36.100 possible food that just like barely keeps them alive and so the slave class today still is also

01:29:42.220 just eating garbage foods like you don't really want your slaves to be super strong because then

01:29:46.060 they can like fight you and run away and stuff so he's kind of speaking from the slave class there

01:29:51.100 unfortunately everything he's saying is true like obviously your food totally determines

01:29:56.220 not totally but largely determines your health and well-being but like

01:30:00.080 you can't like you can't you can't get this he's rabble rousing a little bit like he

01:30:06.100 You don't want to get the slave class too upset about the fact that they have to eat slave food because that's – there's no fixing that really.

01:30:14.400 Like eating correctly is actually like pretty simple.

01:30:19.080 You just have to actually like poke your own food.

01:30:22.880 But the slave class doesn't have that leisure anymore.

01:30:25.400 Like how I would define the slave class now is that like you're somebody who's either so busy or so like deranged and like crazy, like miserable mentally and emotionally that you literally don't have the time or the energy to cook for yourself.

01:30:40.860 like there's vast swaths of people that live like that from necessity yeah they're enslaved to an

01:30:48.400 institutional apparatus that I don't really think is like a worthy ruling class but there's a very

01:30:55.240 good reason that the institutions don't want people to know like how to eat well and don't

01:31:02.000 want people even to have the energy or the will to cook their own food because that's not how you

01:31:08.640 keep slaves slaves you don't keep slaves slaves by helping them be healthy

01:31:12.580 uh i i don't know i feel like i i've been losing weightly recently like eating like

01:31:24.180 shockingly cheaply off of like uh like just lean meats at the grocery store and like

01:31:33.840 Mm-hmm. But you're still a member of the privileged class that you're able to do that.

01:31:39.560 Like it's almost like a proof by combat sort of thing. Like there's a way in which if your life

01:31:44.440 allows you or if you are able to prioritize the health, your physical health and your diet,

01:31:50.920 like you already belong to a really privileged class of people to be able to do that, to be able

01:31:55.660 to know about it, to have the time to cook, to have like a home in which to cook, to be at home

01:32:00.860 so that you can cook like there's just so so many people that will never have that day-to-day

01:32:06.720 privilege there's a lot of people who would say that who i have very little sympathy for

01:32:12.560 but i have no sympathy for them don't mistake don't mistake my stating the facts for sympathy

01:32:18.020 a three-hour commute both ways and like yeah that guy's a slave that guy's a slave and like he either

01:32:26.720 needs to he he can continue in that right or he needs to take the risk of like getting free of

01:32:32.100 his slavery and then maybe he'll have time to cook maybe he'll die you never know like ascending

01:32:38.000 into higher ranks of class is a risk hours a day uncompensated like you should just become a hobo

01:32:44.860 i'm sorry yeah absolutely you have to take that risk more out of life like living out of a van

01:32:50.860 than commuting four hours a day and just to merely sleep in.

01:32:58.220 Yeah, but that's one of the differentiating characteristics of the nobility, right?

01:33:05.860 It's like if you are by nature a slave, it wouldn't occur to you to like take the risk of living in your car

01:33:12.820 so that you can get those four hours of your commute back to yourself.

01:33:16.220 It's like, it's too scary. It's too much. Like, it's just not something that would cross your

01:33:20.820 mind. Like there is one of the qualities of nobility is that you're willing to risk your

01:33:28.480 comfort, possibly your life in order to be more free. And one of the qualities of like a slave

01:33:35.200 nature is that the risk is too much. And you just prefer to stay in the known of slavery than to

01:33:43.940 take the risk of losing your life in order to gain more freedom great sure anyway back to simpson

01:33:50.940 this is not the place to go specifically into the complex question of what right food is and how one

01:33:58.820 can get it i'm disappointed uh during recent decades the matter has gradually become come to

01:34:04.900 be covered by some very well-grounded and practical books those it is doubtful whether even one percent

01:34:11.340 of the people know of their existence. But the point that I wish to make at this moment is that

01:34:16.300 the importance of diet, which is at last being recognized, was stressed by Nietzsche a hundred

01:34:21.900 years ago. Similarly, I might write of the significance that Nietzsche assigned to physical

01:34:27.160 beauty as an index of desirability in a maid and of health and well-constituteness of the people.

01:34:34.880 Their sense of the beauty and of the ugly was a deposit of their most fundamental self-preservative

01:34:41.080 values. Such delights in bodily beauty has been the attitude amongst every great people of the

01:34:48.040 past that I have studied. It has been only where the value of the ill-favored and the inferior

01:34:53.880 have gained the upper hand that beauty has been condemned and neglected. I'm actually kind of

01:35:01.400 relieved here because I was afraid he's going to start talking about the wonders of margarine

01:35:05.600 because this is the 1970s right oh my gosh he starts giving health advice this could be horrible

01:35:15.920 yeah but uh continuing with simpson Nietzsche's thoughts on race are furnished further

01:35:24.320 furnishes further evidence of how important he considered the physical side of life

01:35:29.380 but since i shall touch upon this when i come to my chapter presenting my own conclusions about race

01:35:35.000 I shall remark here only that despite his emphasis on it, he was a long way from being any racist,

01:35:42.600 and he wrote contemptuously of that, of the mendacious race swindle of those who talked

01:35:48.600 overconfidently or arrogantly about pure race or pushed racial ideas beyond the limits set by

01:35:54.780 strict scientific knowledge. And so far was he from being an anti-Semite that he almost broke

01:36:02.140 with his own sister because she married one of Germany's anti-Semitic leaders. Any suspicion of

01:36:08.100 Nietzsche's view on race should be set to the rest once and for all by consideration of the

01:36:13.500 well-known fact that the authorized English edition of his worth was initiated and financed

01:36:19.180 by Dr. Oskar Levy and that many of the translations were made by fellow Jews. Indeed, everyone who's

01:36:25.220 read him thoroughly must recall how often Jews come in for the appreciation and even for open

01:36:30.740 admiration now here i have to interject that uh nietzsche basically never interacted with real

01:36:41.060 jews like the only jews he interacted with were uh like german jews like the ones who they like

01:36:49.380 these highly assimilated uh jews who like uh people commentated were more german than the germans

01:36:58.020 uh like these really old integrated uh western western jews who themselves like largely despise

01:37:10.020 eastern jury or were like deeply embarrassed by it by it um but uh like i think opinions on the

01:37:21.540 jews i always find like very uh like parochial and like like very like very like incredibly dated

01:37:31.820 to his time like uh like uh obviously his opinion on the ancient jews like uh the hebrews of like

01:37:40.500 biblical times like uh is fascinating but his like insight into like the contemporary ethnicity

01:37:46.980 uh even compared to like a lot of like his contemporaries or like

01:37:51.540 latter ones i've i find he's just like

01:37:54.740 naive but also just like not knowledgeable like uh well you asked nietzsche the difference

01:38:04.480 like about the talmud or like the difference between like uh western reform jews and like

01:38:13.020 Like, shh, edel Jews.

01:38:16.360 Jews, like, he really did not understand it.

01:38:21.980 And, like, the East really does not play a lot in his, like, worldview.

01:38:27.660 I've never heard Meechah talk about, like, the steppe or, like, the profligate or the abundance of cultures there and the ethnic conflict that happens there.

01:38:39.800 Which, of course, is like this massive blind spot because that's like going to devour the entire next hundred years of history.

01:38:48.180 Yeah, I don't know. I think that Nietzsche speaks in pretty scaling terms about like Jewiness, like the essence of Jew in the Antichrist.

01:39:07.180 antichrist and but he doesn't i mean he speaks of them as like a priest class basically that's

01:39:15.000 been divorced from the warrior cast which we discussed in another episode already i'm like

01:39:20.620 that they are just they're very good at putting themselves at the head of these decadence move

01:39:26.020 they're they're good at propaganda they're good at spinning stories and getting people to like

01:39:32.080 see things the way they want them to yeah there is this also like weird like mid 20th century

01:39:38.900 nature where like as as uh simpson says all the translators of nature in like the 40s 50s and

01:39:47.360 60s were jewish so like there's there's a kind of like odd nature that like forms of the mid 20th

01:39:56.140 century that like slowly reverts back it's also around the time that like uh a lot of like

01:40:02.240 apocryphal stuff gets attributed to nietzsche uh nietzsche never hugged a horse for example

01:40:08.720 like i went to there i went to there where he was allegedly where he allegedly hugged the horse and

01:40:16.020 fell over on the in the square so that's taken from uh that's always taken word from for word

01:40:23.800 from Dostoevsky and was like oh yeah you mentioned that it was like um only like the first written

01:40:34.420 account of it was like 10 years after uh Nietzsche collapsed collapsed and or like 10 years after he

01:40:44.100 died like it didn't even appear immediately and uh it's like oh so someone in the town

01:40:51.720 wanted to get a paycheck and like plagiarized uh dostoevsky italians and so that became canon

01:41:02.260 canon it's like i think that um i'll say about the racism thing and the anti-semitism thing like

01:41:11.540 i don't want to get into the gory details too much but i think racism and anti-semitism again

01:41:17.060 i say this a million times but it works so often like it's not that action itself that's good or

01:41:23.400 bad like you can be a shitty racist or you can be like a really classy racist it's not racism

01:41:29.720 that's the problem it's the person that's the problem like so i think a lot of his complaints

01:41:34.460 about the anti-semites were that he considered the anti-semites that he knew including his own

01:41:40.300 sister to be people of like low quality or like low rank like low caste vulgar base people um

01:41:49.620 I don't I don't think that Nietzsche would speak on anti-semitism as a thing because that's not

01:41:55.220 how his mind works that's not how his philosophy works he's not a moralist where he like lists out

01:42:00.980 the things that are good for you to do and the things that are bad for you to do like he's much

01:42:05.820 always focused on who is doing it he's a sophist in that way like who is the one doing the thing

01:42:12.000 that's how we make the judgment about the value of the thing so yeah he just for him he personally

01:42:18.120 knew anti-semites who he thought were like losers but i don't think it's fine i don't think there's

01:42:23.200 a problem with anti-semitism per se just like there's not a problem with racism per se and he

01:42:28.880 speaks a lot about jews and about race it's just like well also like um like it's very hard to

01:42:37.240 derive so a person's opinion from their opinion about their brother-in-law right like uh just on

01:42:45.900 the face of it like whether or not you like your brother-in-law and whether or not your brother-in-law

01:42:50.220 has an opinion like uh like you can agree you can actually like agree in principle on everything

01:42:59.260 with your brother-in-law and if you don't like your brother-in-law you'll find some way to

01:43:02.720 say yeah but he's doing it wrong you know what I mean right right but uh

01:43:09.920 that's a very that's a very sophisticated way of making judgment and when bad people

01:43:19.120 make judgments in that way it's really messy but like if you are a very refined person a very high

01:43:25.880 taste and you make judgments in that way like I don't like this person so the way they're doing

01:43:31.340 it is bad like that's a way to make a judgment right and it's like some people do that well

01:43:37.380 because they're good people and some people do that badly because they're bad people

01:43:42.280 it's not that being like sophistical in your judgment methods is bad it's that you are bad

01:43:47.980 that makes it bad yes but uh let let us continue with simpson uh with this brief mention of

01:43:56.300 nietzsche's views on race as sufficing for the moment let me now pass to on to the a consideration

01:44:02.080 of his attitude towards defectives nietzsche died before the world had begun to hear of the

01:44:08.480 experiments of the austrian monk johan gregor mendel which were to lay the foundations for

01:44:14.920 the science of genetics nevertheless he's one of the forerunners of modern eugenics he declared

01:44:22.180 that any organism that fails to excrete its waste products dies and he said it point pointing to the

01:44:29.280 human world about him we have allowed our religious superstition and our sentimental

01:44:33.900 humanitarianism almost completely to frustrate the operation of natural selection blinded by

01:44:40.260 the fact that human life is of very unequal worth, we actually sacrifice the more valuable to the

01:44:46.660 less valuable. In our folly, we burn the sound and the capable among us with the support and care of

01:44:53.080 a colossal load of human wreckage. Millions of morons, feeble-minded, insane criminals, and all

01:44:59.700 sorts of the hopelessly incurable who can never come to anything whatsoever. Moreover, the feeble-

01:45:05.980 minded are notoriously prolific. The cost of carrying all this load is prodigious, and it is

01:45:13.420 growing. If we do not soon reverse the present process, the land will at last be possessed by

01:45:19.800 those unable to even take care of themselves. We are following the path of national and racial

01:45:25.320 suicide and this this passage reads a lot like like just early 19th century eugenics but uh i i'd

01:45:36.160 encourage you to look at the street of a major city and notice that that the incurables are

01:45:43.820 actually like pouring out and camping in the street in their incurable state they were breeding

01:45:50.660 cockroaches howling at the moon and harassing people on the street and it benefits the the

01:45:59.320 the like powers that be are benefited by that because like ninja says elsewhere

01:46:03.700 to look at ugly things makes you sick so it's like the more um degenerates how did simpson call them

01:46:11.540 degenerates or anyways the more of these like sickly and ugly people that you have to look at

01:46:19.880 in your daily life and be subjected to the sicker and weaker you become so it's a very good method

01:46:25.660 of like further enslaving people by making them weaker is to like constantly subject them to

01:46:32.140 ugliness and sickness and disease and like grotescities very much so the remedy is deliberately

01:46:41.120 and with the greatest possible wisdom but also with unflinching firmness to attempt to provide

01:46:46.560 a substitute for the natural selection that we have suppressed. The weak and the bot shall perish,

01:46:52.780 first principle of our humanity, and they ought even to be helped to perish. That's in quotations

01:46:58.960 from Nietzsche. That's a Nietzsche line. That's one of the best lines. The actual means to be

01:47:04.140 considered for the purging of our breeding stock hour, I will leave now in the hopes of giving it

01:47:09.540 adequate treatment in a future chapter on eugenics. Here it must be enough to insist that the process

01:47:15.080 should be pressed until the gross defectiveness characteristic of perhaps the lowest quarter of

01:47:20.900 our entire population and turning up here and there on almost every level has been eliminated.

01:47:27.140 Doubtless mistakes would be made by submitting that no mistake we should be at all likely to make

01:47:33.380 could be so serious as the truly fatal mistake that we are making now all the time but are merely

01:47:39.820 leaving the problem untouched the warning should be kept before the eyes of the entire nation

01:47:45.460 any organism that fails to excrete its waste product dies i i love this this is like a

01:47:52.780 it's wonderful villain uh no but it's so true because it's like that's safetyism it's like

01:47:59.040 what's that line about the purpose of a system is what it does like safetyism is so championed and

01:48:06.160 like rammed like the biggest thickest cock down your throat all day every day exactly because

01:48:13.780 it protects exactly because it protects this the state of things we're like we cannot make

01:48:22.060 any improvements to the quality of human stock in our society because maybe one person who doesn't

01:48:29.200 deserve it will get hurt maybe one innocent will be victimized maybe one child will be left behind

01:48:37.620 and it's like the reason that they fixate on that like total edge case one in a million times that

01:48:44.900 the judgment is made badly is so that they can stop the judgment from ever being made at all

01:48:50.020 and that again is because they i don't know who they are as if you know the edge cases in the

01:48:57.620 current system are not horrifying you know yeah you know oh it's an outlier when it's like

01:49:04.260 when it's like a valedictorian cheerleader who gets like horribly raped and mutilated

01:49:10.620 by like one of the one of the defective defective of another of another race in her high school

01:49:18.380 on graduating day but uh if you propose doing something about that all suddenly it's you know

01:49:24.920 it's an outlier when it's the current situation but omelas when you consider uh changing it uh

01:49:32.320 fixing the ones who walk away from omelas is a short story about a paradise but there's

01:49:38.800 one person being tortured in a basement somewhere and that's what somehow makes the paradise possible

01:49:45.620 and uh and because the exception has been pointed out uh the the writer concludes that no

01:49:54.740 they'd have to kidnap the, uh, tortured suspect away from this like perfect paradise of a hundred

01:50:00.980 thousand because, and go somewhere else because their conscious can't tolerate that. So what it,

01:50:08.960 what it's, uh, a status quo that you want to maintain, it's an outlier when it's a, a solution

01:50:16.160 that you want to foreclose on it's open loss. But, uh, but no, I, I love that paragraph. I like,

01:50:23.960 i love you may have already figured this out dear reader i love any writing that could also

01:50:31.040 devil as an audio log in a horror video game you know you know you could imagine find hearing

01:50:37.880 someone reading that out in a in a audio log in in you know some lost city overrun by

01:50:47.540 by the the horrors of what have been yes anyway continuing with something such then were some of

01:50:58.660 the conclusions about the physical side of life that nietzsche believed mankind must draw if it

01:51:04.000 would attain unto the superman in short he stressed the importance of the biological of

01:51:09.280 breeding diet and eugenics but he believed that this goal no less inexorably laid upon men's

01:51:16.760 certain requirements as to the organization of society every sound social structure and in

01:51:22.220 particular every social structure shaped to favor the development of the largest possible number of

01:51:28.240 superior men would take the form of a pyramid it would be stratified according to capacity

01:51:34.840 and corresponding function would rest on a broad base of well-constituted mediocrity

01:51:40.700 and come to an apex in an aristocracy of character and wisdom.

01:51:49.400 In a future chapter to be entitled The Necessity of an Aristocracy,

01:51:53.480 I shall give a full and careful description of such a society on all its levels,

01:51:58.260 and I shall frankly examine the question that its very proposal inevitably raises

01:52:06.600 and squarely face the obstacle that must be surmounted

01:52:09.420 if ever any such society, assuming its desirability

01:52:13.300 comes to be recognized, is to be brought about.

01:52:16.360 Suffice now to remark, in fairness to Nietzsche,

01:52:19.780 that he believed that in a society of such form and tone

01:52:23.300 would inferiority of every kind most certainly settle to the bottom

01:52:27.140 and be eliminated.

01:52:29.520 And capacity most certainly be noted,

01:52:32.480 be given the exceptional opportunities of which it alone could take advantage

01:52:36.440 and find outlets for its creative powers.

01:52:39.480 Thus would the whole people move most surely and steadily towards the superman.

01:52:46.280 Nietzsche's goal, determining the means by which it might be reached,

01:52:50.180 also gave him a criterion by which to recognize obstacles in the way of its attainment.

01:52:55.020 The greatest of these were Christianity and its offspring, democracy.

01:53:00.100 Nietzsche hated with a profound hatred all the egalitarian doctrines.

01:53:04.860 democracy along with socialism and communism in his eyes they were the great levelers the great

01:53:11.320 enemies of all quality of life and of all higher men they leveled and they leveled downwards

01:53:17.360 professorly they conduced towards the welfare of the mass but in fact they created conditions

01:53:22.880 under which superior life appear less and less could not obtain any exceptional opportunity

01:53:28.220 good yeah i think it's so it's such a it's such a horrible lie that they're that these people who

01:53:37.100 are preaching equality are trying to attain the welfare of the mass it's like i i almost quiver

01:53:42.640 with rage how hateful and false those people are because it's like they don't want anyone to be

01:53:48.820 well actually they just want everyone to be sick and miserable and they're telling you like oh the

01:53:53.260 ruling class is just trying to hurt you and steal from you and like treat you unjustly and you

01:53:57.800 deserve everything they have but like what these rabble rousers actually deliver for people is

01:54:03.220 living in a world where everywhere you turn you have to be confronted by somebody who's trying

01:54:09.800 to rape you stab you steal your shit scream at you who's unmedicated and mentally ill who's

01:54:16.160 listening to their phone and their stupid tiktok videos at full volume and like blasting your ears

01:54:21.840 with it while you're trying to just ride the bus somewhere it's like everything about living a

01:54:26.140 middle-class lifestyle becomes so wretched and uncomfortable because they have filled the world

01:54:31.320 with these defectives who like the higher classes of whatever quality they are don't have to live

01:54:38.720 with the defectives that are filling up all of the public spaces and making all of public life

01:54:44.500 like unlivable for the middle classes like the people who are preaching equality to you

01:54:49.760 want you to be sick and they want you to suffer and that's why the systems that they have created

01:54:53.960 especially like if you're American and you live in America I think I've been living in Europe for

01:54:59.600 a little while now and y'all just don't fucking know how good you have it here compared to America

01:55:03.620 like everywhere you go in America you're being assaulted by ugliness and disease as a middle

01:55:10.060 class person and that's what they want like they want you to be sick they want you to be afraid

01:55:15.840 they want you to be uncomfortable they want your life to be unlivable except for the story they're

01:55:20.840 telling you is that they're doing it because they care about you and they want you to be well

01:55:25.540 but when really like if the hierarchy is in place correctly and the people who are worthy of

01:55:32.880 rulership are ruling like you're as a middle class person are living such a much better life

01:55:39.160 than anything the preachers of equality can promise you and like yeah and it comes at the

01:55:47.080 cost of miserable people being gracefully handed over into the loving arms of death. Death is

01:55:55.800 love, especially if the life you're living is horrible and painful and full of suffering and

01:56:02.520 causing all of the people around you to suffer too. Like there are so many things worse than

01:56:08.080 death. And if you want to see what those things are, go to any American city and try to walk

01:56:12.480 around on the streets absolutely and to like the lie of like leftist egalitarian empathy

01:56:22.080 uh you can nearly tell whether someone is motivated by like empathy and like carrying

01:56:28.160 concern in their politics or not but just seeing like how much of their time they actually dedicate

01:56:33.760 to like charitable humanitarian work like if they just find if they just find like helping

01:56:40.680 other people inherently rewarding you know they're like they're like a doting mother or whatnot you

01:56:46.480 expect them to actually be tending and caring to people that it's like actually like inherently

01:56:51.040 rewarding to them to care for people what you find is like none of them do that all of them

01:56:56.680 are like focused what's in what's inherently rewarding to them is to make other people suffer

01:57:01.800 that's actually what they're after and like if if it was the case that if i believe that it was

01:57:07.760 actually these like libtard libtarded people who are like making these decisions to politically

01:57:13.360 destroy like the culture and to bomb the demographics of the united states and i would

01:57:20.500 offer this as a solution even though i know it's not really the cause they're just sheep being like

01:57:25.060 brainwashed and guided by higher up and more nefarious powers but like the simple solution

01:57:31.620 is just like if you want to take care of a migrant or a defective of whatever kind you are more than

01:57:37.480 welcome to do that just sign here taking legal responsibility for any crime this person might

01:57:42.260 commit and you can go ahead and house them and feed them we would have zero immigrants if that

01:57:48.240 was if that was the rule yeah if you watch any prestige like tv show like uh the wire or trireme

01:57:56.660 or uh or oh no uh ozarks whenever like there's a democratic political operative who's a character

01:58:06.240 in the show like anywhere in it and this is the story hollywood themselves tell uh without

01:58:14.660 exception they all like to pick the most cynical character is the like democratic operative and

01:58:22.540 like openly corrupt openly taking bribes openly like no it's not about helping people it's about

01:58:27.880 uh bringing our like racketeering graft this way like yeah a big plot point of the sopranos is this

01:58:35.860 how like their union trummels has nothing to do with the workers it's all about you know

01:58:40.740 italian racketeering networks uh yeah it's like the hurt you know the herd like they're just

01:58:50.280 little sheeps and it's really like i really do see nietzsche as a very loving man and i feel that

01:58:56.260 however hateful my speech may be interpreted by haters like my motivation is deeply love

01:59:02.340 because these little sheeps are being so viciously misled by people who are very good at lying to

01:59:08.180 them and making them promises that they never intend to deliver and it's like I I feel like

01:59:14.120 we have the sheep all living in these like tiny little cages up to their knees in their own shit

01:59:20.000 and like if I was the shepherd they'd be cruising in a field eating grass and like enjoying the

01:59:25.400 sunshine but it's just really I mean I don't have that power and it's just really sad that

01:59:30.620 it's really sad that like people who are not really capable of the kind of critical thought

01:59:36.280 necessary to recognize when they're being lied to are being promised paradise and like delivered

01:59:43.740 a tiny little shit cage very much so uh anyway back to simpson they leveled and they leveled

01:59:53.420 downwards professively they conduced towards the welfare of the mass but in fact they created

01:59:59.120 conditions under which superior life appeared less and less, could not obtain the exceptional

02:00:04.140 opportunities required for development, or if it did somehow come to great wisdom, was ignored in

02:00:09.600 the process of counting noses. On Christianity, he was the hardest of all. Chiefly, he condemned

02:00:15.760 its morality on the grounds that it favored the wrong kind of life, inferior life, and did to

02:00:21.260 choke and kill out those of true intellectual and spiritual superiority, without whom no society

02:00:27.360 could long even endure, let alone outstrip the entire record of the past and ascend to the

02:00:33.000 heights of the Superman. However, I will say no more of Christianity here, since I must soon bring

02:00:38.800 it up again in another connection. Before I go further in the exposition of Nietzsche's thoughts,

02:00:45.840 I must introduce a word to prevent misunderstanding. Though he could be, and at times was, exceedingly

02:00:52.380 severe in his attack and his prescriptions it must be by no means because he lacked human feeling

02:00:59.360 all who know him well agree that he thought he had a mind like a rapier he had a heart of a death

02:01:06.360 he had a heart of down uh heart of down i think he means uh like uh you'd fill an old

02:01:14.900 pillow with or like a down jacket yeah yeah he was a sweetheart like yeah heart of like soft feathers

02:01:22.400 yeah absolutely he was no harsher than seen necessary if man was to be lifted to the heights

02:01:29.220 he was no harsher than seen necessary if man was to be lifted to the heights he was near never

02:01:36.260 vindictive but having willed a goal he had the strength to accept and to will also the necessary

02:01:41.920 means thereto. Any man who does it otherwise is nothing more than a visionary milk sop,

02:01:47.900 as we shall shortly see in some detail, condemning one against an element deep in Nietzsche's nature.

02:01:55.280 He believed in holding to the positive. It is better to sow good seed than to pull up weeds,

02:02:00.380 but apparently there are times when one must clear the ground that one would plant,

02:02:05.960 And even at that time, Nietzsche becomes almost vitriolic.

02:02:10.220 It is always to be remembered that he condemns or attacks only out of his hunger for the Superman.

02:02:16.920 The next side of his teachings, of which I wish to write, is his idea that all life is will to power.

02:02:23.980 We turn now from Nietzsche as a sociologist to Nietzsche as a psychologist.

02:02:30.260 Here also he is a forerunner, in this case, of those in our time who have sought some principle or driving force by which to understand or explain all human conduct.

02:02:41.940 But whereas others have professed to find it in sex or in the struggle for existence or in a combination of the two, each believed he had found it in the will to power.

02:02:52.600 It is to be regretted they did not live long enough to make it unstatable what he meant by power.

02:02:59.360 But careful reflection on the passage in which the phrase will to power occurs seemed to leave his meaning reasonably clear.

02:03:06.280 In the first place, it may be said categorically that it was most certainly not a glorification of force.

02:03:13.600 Each despised his contemporary Bismarck and thought him strong, strong, and mad, but not great.

02:03:20.800 He deplored the growing feeling for a German empire that he began to creep through the German people in the years following their triumph in the Franco-Prussian War.

02:03:28.800 He penned the most severe indictment of the centralized octopus state, declaring it no less than the death of peoples, and adding that only where the state seetheth commenceth the man who is not superfluous.

02:03:50.560 It may be said further that the prerequisite for willpower in the ascending form of life was always great health, well-constituteness, strength, and excess energy.

02:04:02.100 Nietzsche would have rejoiced in William Blake's assertion that energy is eternal delight.

02:04:08.200 At a time, such excess energy lets a man above all concern, even for his existence.

02:04:14.560 He exalts in his strength and longs above all else simply to expend it.

02:04:18.900 in his youth he springs upon his charger cry a short life in the saddle lord not not a long

02:04:26.100 life by the fire he feels great inner welt and longs to lavish it with free hands he feels

02:04:33.440 within him a love that fills and overfills him until he longs only to let it pour itself out

02:04:38.900 to the end of the universe he is a blake or a beethoven possessed by a veritable fury of

02:04:46.440 creative energy which overcomes him sweeps away all obstacles and finally sees its fond grief for

02:04:53.800 a form in music or in vision of the soul of a man like of which the world has never seen before

02:05:01.540 and also and always in any and every kind of light will to power means will towards some

02:05:08.880 kind of ascendancy expansion or mastery the quality of it the objective of it the place on

02:05:15.300 which its forces spent may vary infinitely, but always there is the element of will to master

02:05:22.540 something. Nietzsche recognized that excess energy might run amok. Indeed, there are passages in which

02:05:30.100 he seems to glory in an expression of an energy that was little more than a display of sheer

02:05:35.300 animal vitality. But in the light of Nietzsche's whole teaching, it is impossible to believe that

02:05:40.620 he gloried in such as though it were in itself enough to make a superman he gloried because of

02:05:48.200 his belief that only out of such strength could the superman be created and because of his further

02:05:53.640 belief that the damage to be done by physical energy broken loose was less to be feared than

02:05:59.240 the damning up or the weakening and sickening of great strength and creative power better to seek

02:06:06.400 for the Superman in a Caesar

02:06:08.020 in a Cesare Borgia, he

02:06:10.320 declared, than in a

02:06:12.180 Parsifal.

02:06:15.440 I think

02:06:18.080 that's

02:06:20.280 an off-brand spelling

02:06:22.160 of Parsifal?

02:06:24.400 It's the German

02:06:25.820 spelling of it.

02:06:28.200 Because Wagner,

02:06:30.420 Richard Wagner, who

02:06:32.180 was his friend, but then

02:06:34.220 they had a falling out in the

02:06:35.960 70s uh was a musician and wrote an opera about parsifal who is like this christian fool basically

02:06:44.860 and nietzsche kind of sees him as like the um personification or the idealization of christian

02:06:52.420 values so he often speaks of parsifal as sort of the image of the opposite of his like beast of

02:06:59.680 prey who would be like yeah accessory borgia or napoleon or julius user because usually so um

02:07:08.580 so in the arthurian tradition like uh like usually the um

02:07:16.400 like there's always the question as to who found the grail in some traditions it's lancelot finds

02:07:24.280 the grail in some traditions it's uh it's sir gal had in other traditions it's gawain and

02:07:32.180 percival is uh the one who in many traditions finds the grail he's the one who finds it in

02:07:38.420 excalibur the film and in english uh this is a

02:07:43.740 because percival like the name percival is the origin of the word persevere

02:07:51.080 and so in english it's like read as a statement of just like the one who doesn't give up

02:07:57.500 you know the one who uh is is most enduring and willing to suffer the most he is the one who found

02:08:05.080 the the grail and that's usually contrast it was sir gal had who was like supposed to be the most

02:08:11.720 faithful the most christian it's interesting that in uh in the german tradition it's considered

02:08:18.160 he's considered the full character uh I might be wrong about that I'm not I'm not super I'm not

02:08:25.040 an expert on it I haven't read really what Nietzsche wrote like it's the way that that Wagner

02:08:33.060 presented Parsifal I think that Nietzsche was not super impressed with but it was his also

02:08:39.740 you know he had a falling out with Wagner and had a very big difference in values

02:08:45.900 between himself and Wagner he that's how he saw it anyways yeah no uh the

02:08:53.400 there there's always a tension in who finds the grail because Gawain is actually Arthur's like

02:09:01.020 true-born nephew like legitimate nephew as opposed to Mordred uh and Lancelot is of course

02:09:08.300 his best friend who also who also like slept with Arstis wife and started the downfall of

02:09:14.580 camelot and and so there's this an incredible like romantic brotherhood of like lancelot finding the

02:09:22.840 grail and reviving arthur and like lancelot coming back to camelot you know this impossible uh

02:09:29.260 this impossible uh reunion uh yeah i asked chad gbt real quick and he said that parsifal becomes

02:09:39.500 a redeemer because he learns pity so it's showing the sense like the height that pity is a great

02:09:45.680 virtue and Nietzsche is like in the antichrist he says that pity is just basically the vector

02:09:52.280 through which suffering spreads itself and it's pity for the defectives that have got that has

02:09:58.160 gotten us into the situation where we are where we're just not able to poop out our poop as a

02:10:03.880 society uh that that makes makes sense uh no I strongly recommend the film Excalibur it's like

02:10:13.320 maybe one of the top 10 films ever made uh and yeah so it depicts a very different person

02:10:21.340 okay because he was depicted as chaste and that also bothered Nietzsche apparently that like

02:10:28.740 oh he was like galahad is supposed to be like uh wagner's percival sounds way more like galahad

02:10:37.560 than like uh the english percival anyway uh back to back to simpson also nietzsche believed that

02:10:48.240 in the last analysis all life lived at the cost of others and though slowly and reluctantly i

02:10:55.720 become convinced that he was right. Within some limits, what takes place amongst us humans is not

02:11:02.240 so unlike what we can witness amongst the seedlings carpeting the forest floor in their struggle for

02:11:07.240 light and air. I cannot make an exception even of a life like that of Whitman, Thoreau, Tolstoy,

02:11:13.960 or Jesus. Every eruption of great vital strength is a danger to the weak. Even Gandhi, despite his

02:11:20.160 pacifism and philosophy of nonviolence, was realist enough to recognize that all light

02:11:25.260 necessarily preys upon other life. Doubtless, what he had chiefly in mind was the cost of

02:11:30.660 human life to the life of plants and animals, which indeed is obvious. Benicio went further

02:11:36.580 through his work, though his words ought perhaps to be reserved for those having psychological

02:11:42.040 penetration and considerable knowledge of the deductions that seem to follow unavoidably from

02:11:47.600 our anthropologist conclusions that man is descended from a race of killer apes uh in point

02:11:55.220 to gandhi like gandhi's passes of fism uh probably killed like more indians than the bangol famine

02:12:03.300 like uh like indian independence immediately started a civil war that like killed 10 million

02:12:09.900 people like that's gandhi's legacy is like 10 million dead uh he declared that life is it uh

02:12:18.640 continuing the anth he declared that life is essentially that is in its cardinal functions

02:12:26.880 something that functions by injuring oppressing exploiting and annihilating and is absolutely

02:12:33.020 inconceivable without such a character. And again, here one must think profoundly to the very basis

02:12:40.520 and resist all sentimental weakness. Life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of

02:12:46.780 the strong and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation,

02:12:55.080 exploitation does not belong to a depraved or imperfect and primitive society. It belongs to

02:13:01.240 the nature of the living being as a primary organic function.

02:13:05.680 It is a consequence of the intrinsic will to power,

02:13:08.440 which is precisely the will to life and the fundamental fact of all life.

02:13:12.680 That is life.

02:13:14.880 Living consists in living at the cost of others,

02:13:18.240 not only of the cost of animals, but of other humans as well.

02:13:23.340 That's an aside by William Gailey Simpson.

02:13:26.460 He who has not grasped this fact has not taken the first steps towards

02:13:31.100 truth to himself. Indeed, there is a further extreme of Nietzsche's thought, in the same

02:13:37.080 direction which it seems best to state Brankway, even though, without space to present it fully

02:13:41.540 and to forestall likely objections, there is danger of giving false impressions. Throughout

02:13:46.660 the full span of Nietzsche's thinking, one finds a recognition that all real culture is necessarily

02:13:51.880 built upon some kind of slavery. To be sure, Nietzsche used the word slavery in a broad sense.

02:13:57.780 To his discriminating mind, any man was essentially a slave whose life was not a self-rolling wheel,

02:14:04.840 who served something outside himself, who did not follow a direction of his own,

02:14:09.660 who did not both command and obey himself.

02:14:12.300 Viewed from this angle, it is likely that the number of really, that is,

02:14:15.480 inwardly free men in any society has always been comparatively small.

02:14:20.440 Among the slaves would have to be counted not only the usual soldier, farmer, and factory hand,

02:14:27.780 but also many a scientist, professional man, banker, and statesman.

02:14:32.060 Perhaps most men have their price, and perhaps a large part of the population is really one way or another,

02:14:37.540 and even though not openly or directly, bought and sold.

02:14:41.020 To one like Nietzsche, even our own society, which talks so much of freedom,

02:14:45.340 would certainly have appeared to consist very largely of slaves.

02:14:49.480 In other words, to a very considerable extent, Nietzsche, for Nietzsche, it was not a matter of ordinary slavery,

02:14:56.120 but rather of recognizing that already most men are more or less of a slave nature furthermore

02:15:03.660 that already most men serve the will of another and have to and thereby reveal that in reality

02:15:09.460 they are slaves now and further that provided their needs are well cared for they are better

02:15:15.100 off and their existence takes on a new and nobler meaning for they do serve the will of another

02:15:20.860 provided only be the will of the man who is truly their superior especially if they come to serve

02:15:28.220 such a will voluntarily and by choice in view of the obvious latitude of this conception

02:15:35.580 it might be questioned whether nietzsche did not shoulder a quite unnecessary incubus

02:15:40.520 of odium in sanctioning slavery for much of his that he recognizes slavery passes with most people

02:15:48.060 something innocuous enough. And this question could be pressed with the more cogency when one

02:15:55.740 learns that Nietzsche was never indifferent to the welfare of the mass for the population.

02:16:00.300 He said in one of his latest books that the workers should one day live as the bourgeois,

02:16:05.920 that is, the middle class do now, but above them, distinguishing themselves by the simplicity of

02:16:11.720 their wants. And he warned repeatedly against contempt for the average man, point out that

02:16:17.680 A strongly and soundly constituted mediocrity was the broad base of the entire social pyramid.

02:16:24.720 Remark that it is possible that even yet there is more relative nobility of taste

02:16:30.300 and more tact for reverence amongst peasants than amongst the newspaper-reading demi-monde of intellect,

02:16:37.200 of intellect, the culture class, and called for a magnanimous consideration of the common man

02:16:43.880 when the exceptional man he says in one place treats the mediocre with more tender care than

02:16:50.180 he does himself or his equals there is not mere courtesy of heart on his part but simply his

02:16:55.920 duty i i want to digress here for a quick second just say um i'm always taken back at how different

02:17:04.200 european classes are than north american like uh when he talks about like uh the humble simple

02:17:11.640 worker and all this stuff are like the newspaper reading intellectual classes and stuff like uh

02:17:18.740 these types are profoundly different in north america like uh like the most salt of the earth

02:17:26.980 people in north america are often like the most jealous of their independence and like the most

02:17:35.840 likely to be self-employed and like uh they they kind of have this mean tough existence uh

02:17:43.800 uh you know not farm owners but like but like technicians or like uh or like uh

02:17:54.000 or like plumbers and electricians and stuff like guys who do like

02:17:59.160 you do like relatively tough work or like uh people who who like run their own like

02:18:06.660 like tree trimming business and whatnot like why these are the people who do the hardest works in

02:18:12.940 in our society but also like by law of objective math measures are like the most free like they

02:18:19.980 can say whatever they want to people um well they've largely escaped the like propaganda

02:18:26.660 pressure of being educated as if like because the the bourgeois class in the u.s has sent all of

02:18:34.940 their children to college because they're trying to be upwardly socially mobile and in so doing

02:18:40.220 they've subjected their children to being made into slaves like anyone who's gone through college

02:18:47.060 has been subjected to a very high pressure propaganda system that is designed to like

02:18:53.760 totally eradicate their ability to think for themselves or to like trust their own capacity

02:19:00.560 for pattern recognition or to trust in any way that their feelings might give them some access

02:19:06.340 to like reality like to be educated in a liberal progressive institution is to be

02:19:14.260 absolutely brainwashed so largely these working class people in the United States and Canada have

02:19:20.120 like evaded that by just having their own jobs and not going to college and actually creating

02:19:25.320 something of real value and making their own money so like they're just subject to the pressure from

02:19:31.620 tv and culture but i think it's less it's like a less um deranging kind of pressure than these

02:19:40.820 upper middle class white kids and or kids of whatever color now that go to college aren't

02:19:45.580 even like really pressured by tv and culture like these people live for their for their motors you

02:19:52.960 know people will like like drive for a living operate a motorized chainsaw or like other

02:20:01.300 motorized piece of equipment and then when they get home they take out a dirt bike or yeah or

02:20:06.980 like they go to work modifying their truck and like don't actually have that much time to consume

02:20:12.780 tv and then they drive to like like a kegger or whatnot you know they're they're often like

02:20:21.640 profoundly like have massive blind spots the world but like they're also like

02:20:28.120 like um they're profoundly more interesting than anyone who's been educated yeah like they're

02:20:37.180 almost like kind of going feral in their own independence yeah that's a good way to put it

02:20:43.880 yeah absolutely which uh is like fascinating to see but does not line up with like uh

02:20:50.560 yeah i call it conception of classes i call it being high caste white trash

02:20:57.980 it's my lifestyle choice when i'm in america as well yeah i i white trash is i don't like to use

02:21:08.240 that because that's like very ethnic to like uh specifically the scot the ulster scots of the

02:21:14.100 appalachia like uh like it's very much tied up with like english protestantism and doesn't like

02:21:21.520 necessarily line up with like like the ethnicities and other areas but like it's certainly like

02:21:27.420 a a class exists now and same with like the newspaper reading uh opinionated intellectuals

02:21:35.380 like the newspaper readers are the least opinionated people you know if you're reading

02:21:42.840 a newspaper now or like have an employment in one of these like bureaucratic jobs like your job is

02:21:48.400 to like not have an opinion or to like repeat the the like state line uh yeah you're just

02:21:56.560 you just get like a program downloaded into your brain and you just like reap return whatever

02:22:03.340 you're commanded to to parent the only people who whereas like there's this entire class of like

02:22:10.340 people who are devoured by like political compass means who have like you know ask them what they

02:22:19.060 are politically and they have to give you like a the source of like all these obscure uh thinkers

02:22:26.240 and whatnot that they they fashion themselves into these like unique little little flowers of

02:22:33.460 like of like uh oh i'm kind of like an italian anarchist this way but i borrowed this from

02:22:42.060 german fascism but i'm really into this american can thinker and i line with this way politely by

02:22:49.700 bolt this way it's like you know just just shoot someone rolling dice randomly generating exactly

02:22:58.300 but uh but no so that's one of the things is that like the classes uh we need a good theory

02:23:05.880 of class for the 21st century now that like yeah i mean i have three stuff works anymore

02:23:11.800 i've been working a little bit on like a cast theory because i do think there's an

02:23:16.600 there's an important difference between what I would call caste and what I would call class

02:23:22.160 and I think you have to investigate that those as they intersect if you will we need to look into

02:23:28.820 the intersectionality of class and caste but really because like your social and wealth class

02:23:35.580 does not necessarily represent or determine like the caste of your soul or your intellect or

02:23:44.760 like the nature of your spirit and that's why I like that like white like high caste white trash

02:23:51.460 because like I don't I've never had a job like not a real one like I've made money but I've never

02:23:57.500 had a corporate job you know I survived an education like I don't have money I don't have

02:24:01.820 property I'm not like keeping up with any kinds of Joneses anywhere in the world but I still

02:24:08.820 consider myself to be like one of the highest caste women in America so my cat my position like

02:24:16.300 the position my rank I don't think is determined by my class and and similarly like there's people

02:24:21.860 that have an enormous amount of political power or physical wealth and I've met tons of people

02:24:27.600 who have so much money and so much influence and position and they are just the most garbage

02:24:33.520 maggot cockroach poop stuck on the bottom of your shoe people ever to live like and that's not always

02:24:41.420 the case right it's not it's not like all low class people are high caste or i all high class

02:24:46.780 people are low caste but it's not ever necessarily immediately apparent based on your social

02:24:53.580 position especially now in such a degenerate society as we live in in which all the institutions

02:25:00.200 are decaying and everything's topsy-turvy, like, you can't necessarily determine somebody's

02:25:05.860 value by how much money they have or even how much political power they have.

02:25:18.280 Yes.

02:25:21.560 Continuing with Simpton.

02:25:26.400 God, I've lost my place now.

02:25:28.840 I knew this was going to happen eventually.

02:25:35.540 Let's see if I could help you.

02:25:39.700 On the other hand, the assumption implicit in our modern capitalism

02:25:44.080 that a man has a right to direct and exploit the labor of his fellow men,

02:25:48.560 if only he has money,

02:25:50.160 this he resented and rejected so strongly

02:25:52.840 that he once exclaimed,

02:25:54.880 when in fear a man takes his foolish existence,

02:25:57.420 his catalyzed stupid happiness as an end he makes the onlooker indignant and would go so far as

02:26:04.640 to oppress and use up other men for ends of his own he should be struck dead like a poisonous fly

02:26:12.000 finally it is evidence enough that Nietzsche's first devout of the necessity of slavery

02:26:18.160 violated his distinctive humanity and gave him pain nevertheless Nietzsche did accept slavery

02:26:25.080 even in the form in which it is repugnant to the modern conscious.

02:26:28.800 He accepted it and he approved it.

02:26:30.760 I also want to note that, like, Nietzsche is largely writing before labor-saving devices.

02:26:40.020 Like, he never traveled to, like, North America to see, like, the, all the bloody steam engines

02:26:50.560 that like that like the Yankees and like uh early Canadians were getting

02:26:55.780 were getting up to like all the different like labor saving devices and like machinery to

02:27:02.480 to like make farms more efficient so to like in a lot of ways like most of the labor

02:27:11.360 that like is required for like ordinary life uh has been eliminated by and large like uh

02:27:20.560 like the number of hours it takes to like maintain build and maintain a house today

02:27:26.680 versus what it was in the 18th century is like 10 percent it is necessary to understand the

02:27:34.600 considerations that brought him to such inclusion Nietzsche felt that human existence really had

02:27:40.520 no value except as it produced culture philosophy science and art of all kinds music painting

02:27:47.140 sculpture, architecture, literature. But culture is the fruit of leisure, and without leisure it is

02:27:53.020 impossible. Moreover, the leisure requisite for creative work is incompatible with earning one's

02:27:59.580 living. Experience taught Emerson the same lesson. Anxious to support his opposition to slavery by

02:28:06.520 act as well as by word, he undertook to tend his own garden and wrote, he who does his work

02:28:14.040 frees a slave but gradually he discovered that the gardening hurt both his thinking and his writing

02:28:19.680 and in the end he declared the writer shall not dake and he observed that all members of the

02:28:26.320 brook farm experiment were cured of their faith that scholarship and practical farming

02:28:32.180 i mean with one's own hands could be united emerson however considered to stand for the

02:28:38.580 abolition of slavery whereas this experience ought to have made him realize as nietzsche did

02:28:42.940 without the experience that great creative work in manual labor are incompatible that freedom from

02:28:49.500 for great creative work can be built only upon someone else's doing more than his share of manual

02:28:55.360 labor so true again this is an example of like like gardening and like doing a lot of this labor

02:29:05.020 now is relatively simple just because we have like machinery and engines and like you don't

02:29:14.660 have to you don't have to like manually with a hand trowel do everything still too much though

02:29:23.140 like I you know I think there's a movement in America especially towards like homesteading

02:29:27.900 and going to live off of grid to get some modicum of independence from the state but

02:29:34.740 it's not the it's not a actually a good functioning life for an artist really or a

02:29:41.340 thinker or a philosopher it's like even the little bit of labor you have to do well okay so you can

02:29:47.500 afford to get all those labor saving devices and to make things easier for yourself like if you

02:29:53.020 have money but you either if you're gonna actually go try to live on a homestead as like a an American

02:30:00.120 in your 20s or 30s or even like your early 40s right now like you can't afford land you can't

02:30:06.120 buy a tractor like you can't buy the tools it's prohibitively expensive I can speak from

02:30:11.840 experience having like yes basically inherited a piece of land and still you like even having a

02:30:18.600 partner have to work we both have to work all the time to make enough money just to buy the tools

02:30:23.720 you need to make life easy enough to homestead otherwise you're out there doing feudal Europe

02:30:29.660 peasant work all day every day like trying to keep the animals alive and make your vegetables grow so

02:30:35.300 it's still not really compatible like with being a thinker or an artist or like a creative person

02:30:42.440 to have to make your own living like you really do have to figure out how to either coerce or

02:30:48.100 charm somebody into paying for your life

02:30:51.680 yeah that is interesting to hear yeah the like my impression is that like

02:31:02.800 that like after years you can get down to like basically a part-time job

02:31:08.540 but that but there's a lot of up front yeah and this is where like most of like

02:31:16.180 because this was a type of person that did exist in like the 20th century this uh like

02:31:22.480 like farmer writer like a lot of the great mystery writers and the great female writers

02:31:27.700 were like uh were like women who homesteaded in the 20th century but like almost all of them

02:31:35.980 were doing it after like years of getting set up or like they had been raised in it

02:31:42.760 you've been raised in it and that it's like educating yourself to know how to do all that

02:31:47.420 stuff is years and years of energy as well because most of us haven't inherited that knowledge

02:31:52.940 yeah no like uh you have to do it as like a generational of value takes years to learn

02:32:01.140 absolutely ask me about living off motorcycles sometime right it's a there's a learning curve

02:32:08.080 it's a big it's a learning curve and you have to do it as a generational project you know it's like

02:32:13.980 if i'm going to take up homesteading i have to do it hoping that like i will reproduce children that

02:32:19.720 have my genius and that they will be able to be leisured enough to be creative with it because

02:32:25.960 of what i've what i've created and what i've left to them as their inheritance yes no uh this this

02:32:35.060 is also like um the nomad cultures it takes like uh like when you see like one of those step nomads

02:32:43.300 or uh or someone like leading a like you know the swap people like hunting the alligators when you

02:32:51.160 see someone leading like a really like like seemingly leisure to really romantic lifestyle

02:32:57.560 uh a lot of the work put one in up front to create that lifestyle yeah Nietzsche says

02:33:04.740 everything perfect is an inheritance anything else is just a start so like unless you inherit

02:33:11.620 wealth knowledge beauty like power physical strength genius all of that stuff like you

02:33:18.140 can't develop enough of that in one individual lifetime to create anything beautiful outside of

02:33:24.920 yourself like art or a society for example like you have to inherit that stuff so that like you

02:33:31.040 already have all that power stored up inside of your being and then you can discharge it into

02:33:35.740 some creative enterprise but you can't create art from poverty like not good art anyways

02:33:41.860 um you can't create beauty from like a labor a laborer's lifestyle like beauty is a privilege

02:33:49.860 and you either have to take a rowling she somehow did it but uh it's very rare yeah i should say

02:33:58.440 go ahead uh i'm just gonna continue with some yeah uh that is to say if there is to be a great

02:34:07.120 culture is necessary that there be some kind of slavery in which many men though being held in

02:34:13.460 to manual labor or meal tasks once or another will be prevented from reaching their full stature

02:34:19.140 in order that other men of greater potentialities may attain theirs.

02:34:24.360 To put it at its baldest, as Salter does once,

02:34:27.820 the higher range of human life exists by more or less the despoiling of the lower ranges.

02:34:33.720 Again, I think that's markedly less necessarily true now that, like,

02:34:40.680 the actual amount of labor that is required to do things

02:34:48.620 is so much less what we see instead is like the complete despoiling of the greater and the lesser

02:34:54.940 modes of life in order to maintain the elderly like uh like i i've been writing a thing about

02:35:03.060 that like if you want to see like a post-scarcity like society where like work has been abolished

02:35:09.880 it existed it was called the 1960s like that's what the boomers lived through that's why there

02:35:16.040 our hippies is because like you wouldn't starve to death if you just dropped out and like did like

02:35:21.360 and like dealt drugs and like toured around falling rock bands like you'd do that as a boomer in the

02:35:28.060 60s and like you'd be perfectly fine you'd still be able to afford new like reasonably functioning

02:35:34.960 cars and stuff and still be able to afford rent and whatnot because uh because the thing that

02:35:40.960 actually made like life scarce like for most of human history was access to calories like food

02:35:47.740 right and what happened in the 50s is the green revolution half not only did you have like all

02:35:54.420 the tractors and all the machinery come online which saved a lot of labor you had nitrogenated

02:35:59.400 fertilizer which like this is why human hunger is like not really a concern now like even like

02:36:06.060 even like the indian untouchables live beyond like two dollars a day are fat

02:36:11.180 and it's because uh uh artificial fertilizer like potash and like uh they actually make it

02:36:21.400 petroleum products uh there's this way to make a nitrogen cure ammonium nitrate from uh

02:36:29.000 from like natural gas and that like uh something like 50 percent of the world's uh

02:36:35.940 agricultural product is a result of this like artificial fertilizing

02:36:40.900 and and so what you see in the 1960s is that basically scarcity like stops existing in the

02:36:50.240 western world and by like the 90s like there are no children starving in ethiopia anymore

02:36:55.740 like the only famine in the world is an artificial one created by a blockade and so what you see is

02:37:02.720 like this great leisure that erupts this uh great pinnacle of uh western civilization then all

02:37:09.120 suddenly the scarcity becomes rent money you know that it's artificially created as the scarcity

02:37:16.920 that never existed before like uh like for most of human history like you just built a house like

02:37:25.600 Even, like, the poor in, like, Midiwal, Paris, or whatever, all just, like, built shacks on the edge of town and whatnot.

02:37:33.900 Like, humans are very good at just building shelter for themselves.

02:37:39.460 But instead, it gets, like, regulated and, like, controlled to create an artificial scarcity.

02:37:45.580 Because this is how governments, and especially the elderly, can force the young to work for them.

02:37:50.680 because who can't enjoy leisure on their own and just like provide for themselves and feed

02:37:57.580 themselves and like take care of themselves the elderly yeah yeah it's a very saturnian age it's

02:38:06.420 like the greek myths of like right before zeus comes and overthrows the titan gods it's like

02:38:12.820 saturn just eating his children and that's the age that we're living through right now in the

02:38:17.860 west too is like all these old impotent people that just cannot hand over the reins of power

02:38:24.220 literally eating their children alive like they literally can't like survive in any way tolerably

02:38:31.720 unless they can like force young people to like work in restaurants and force young people to

02:38:36.880 like change their bedpans and stuff stuff and force young people to like do the work on their

02:38:43.840 houses because like they're too frail like they aren't going up a ladder they aren't doing all

02:38:48.140 this they need like some way to to conscript all this later or out of young people and how do you

02:38:55.900 do that right well especially when like food is like you know you can't make someone die of

02:39:04.420 starvation today they you know you go on a court and say no i'm begging just for food don't give

02:39:10.460 me money give me food like someone will buy you food it's like oh you're actually hungry

02:39:16.360 yeah I can help you out with that that you're you don't want drugs like like the unemployed

02:39:24.120 bums on the street will get money and they don't even have to spend it on food they spend it on

02:39:29.240 drugs like that's how abundant food is and and so that's how the elderly control you is and like

02:39:39.400 oh but you need a house in order to have a wife and you need a wife because that's terminal value

02:39:44.980 so we've got you by the ball so you have to like you know to own like a condominium that's going

02:39:52.780 to be five hundred thousand dollars to an old minimum yeah and that's how i need to write the

02:40:00.640 piece on this sorry this is complete direct digression uh but yeah that's what we're doing

02:40:06.100 in our modern world we aren't maintaining an aristocracy with like the slavery of labor

02:40:11.980 we're maintaining we're maintaining a nursing home or maintaining the

02:40:16.880 right it was the same like issue as the other it's maintaining defectives in the sense that

02:40:26.000 they're too old to like you know produce anything of value or even to actually enjoy their own

02:40:32.180 existence like they're living they're the walking dead like if you're actually like selfishly trying

02:40:39.440 to maximize the uh the performance of your genetics like you'd hit 70 and as soon as you

02:40:46.300 felt like the senility coming on as soon as like it was like oh i'm not what i once was i can't

02:40:52.420 really create value you you like commit seppuku and leave everything to your errors like as soon

02:40:59.360 as possible so that they could have like children right you know and like that isn't actually

02:41:06.300 genetic that's just another proof that genetic considerations are not what actually drive

02:41:12.920 people's behavior like which the elderly don't have like adaptive instincts because

02:41:18.500 the elderly aren't supposed to exist like uh like there's no evolutionary selection pressure that

02:41:26.200 selects for you your behavior in your 70s after you've already reproduced and after like you can't

02:41:34.760 fight or do anything in the ancestral environment like there was no pressure selecting for like

02:41:40.800 old people to be like not completely destructive because they didn't exist so like uh

02:41:48.120 so like if something like turned you into like a psychopathic old person that like

02:41:54.120 would murder your grandchildren but gave you like a 10 greater chance of like fighting harder and

02:42:02.420 reproducing in your 20s like you weren't going to become an old person anyway because you lived in

02:42:09.320 like historical it was a safe trade like that was a perfectly adaptive adaptation and like now we're

02:42:16.260 living with like all the um you know all the loose ends that uh that biological section didn't care

02:42:25.340 about because who who cares if they get old you know like uh like you know it it actually like

02:42:32.820 being fertile into your like 80s or like till you're 120 is actually like probably not not

02:42:42.180 that evolutionary impossible evolutionarily impossible like sea turtles do it like it's

02:42:48.140 actually probably not that hard to like make it last that long it's just like no this was the

02:42:52.260 average lifespan of like a human being and like you'd be killed by like a rival by the time you're

02:42:58.700 like 50 60 so so why wouldn't you like get her done you know make the hormones burn extra hot 0.60

02:43:10.780 at like 18 and it's like oh oh yeah they like burn out and go into menopause at 56 but like

02:43:19.080 none of them make it to 56 anyway who cares right right you know that you know all these like

02:43:25.340 decisions that were made uh decisions all these like design

02:43:31.860 like uh these evolutionary design choices that that were made like by just the pressures of

02:43:41.780 like existence all suddenly people live to like 85 and all those are coming back to bite us in the

02:43:48.980 ass and it's like just another symptom of the corruption like all sight all societies everything

02:43:58.240 all of life somehow men turn into cowardly old women when they have no life less to lose

02:44:04.400 you know think about that that's completely unadaptive like a man at 80 should have no

02:44:10.140 fucks to give you should just be like he should be picking fights every day but uh but instead

02:44:17.340 like men turn cowardly when they're old completely insane i mean to be fair it's also like

02:44:23.940 to be charitable to such old men where i agree with everything you're saying i think that we

02:44:29.760 should definitely address this saturn problem that we have and somebody needs to do what zeus

02:44:37.160 did to his father but the other problem is that you're not allowed to die like even if you want

02:44:44.200 to you're not allowed to so if you well if you take any risk for us oh yeah i mean i think that's

02:44:50.560 great for you guys but in america you're not allowed to die so if you like hurt yourself or

02:44:54.880 make your body uncomfortable in any way you just have to live forever like that like so risks become

02:45:01.380 so inordinately terrifying because there's no way out if you fuck up like you're stuck in the hell

02:45:08.640 realm of your aging dying corpse until they can't make any more money off of you that's the only

02:45:14.800 thing that lets you go free into the afterlife

02:45:16.880 is if you run out of money.

02:45:21.120 Ah.

02:45:22.320 No.

02:45:25.080 Quite the, quit the

02:45:26.720 situation. Yeah.

02:45:28.560 Anyway, continuing. Hey, I gotta

02:45:30.500 go. It's

02:45:32.660 late here and my boyfriend's home and I'm gonna

02:45:34.560 make him dinner.

02:45:36.580 Alright. We can pick up

02:45:38.760 pick up

02:45:40.780 then at another time.

02:45:42.460 I'm probably gonna start editing these

02:45:44.740 just that i've been trying to keep the chapters together but like that's actually something

02:45:50.520 i'll probably just like start putting these out

02:46:14.740 Thank you.

02:46:44.740 Thank you.

Anarchonomicon - August 25, 2026

Ep35 “Which Way Western Man？” Part 6 (Nietzsche 1) w⧸Brynhildr

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