Thank you for that. I will watch it now.
Nietzsche was one of my primary mentors early on. He was about as smart a person as ever lived, but was ahead of his time and very misunderstood, and as you say, misrepresented and his thinking bastardized by many including the Nazi's.
It is ironic the right wing has chosen Ayn Rand to hitch their wagon to as the right wing is compose mostly of people of faith and the workers and poor.
Rand, as you know, was a hard core atheist and called the workers vermin.
But this is the thesis of the problem we face with regard to democracy and social responsibility. It is considered in bad taste to point to uneducated societies failing because they are uneducated.
But history tells the tale. It took we humans 15,000 years to discover democracy and the rule of law and social science.
Societies that do not understand those things don't fare well.
<<Message #330755 from Ron at 9/14/2020 12:05:22 PM
koan, there's a 3 part series on Netflix you might find of interest: Genius of the Modern world.
The segment on Nietzsche was interesting, particularly his mental breakdown and cherry-picking
of some of his work by the Nazis...
On reflection, I see cherry picking of his work by Ayn Rand, as well...
I was fairly familiar with his work, but not his personal life, which is what makes these segments
more interesting.. |
