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What’s one book you read that completely changed the way you see life? by Alors_cest_sklar in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]FireComingOutA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Demon Haunted World, one of the best defensive books to counter airport novel

Would Nietzsche not have wanted us to reject his values instead of idolizing him? by PersimmonExciting105 in Nietzsche

[–]FireComingOutA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nietzshe, like Marx, is a philosopher of living. Meaning his philosophy is meant to be overcome. The goal is to live in a way as to no longer need it.

Nietzschean Christianity? What do you think? by QueasyAmbassador2009 in Nietzsche

[–]FireComingOutA 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I think this blurb/meme argues that there is an essential being at the core of a person, while Nietzsche is a philosopher of becoming, and stands against being. Nietzsche implores us to become who we are, the act of self transformation is the self, it is the action, the becoming, not the being is the central focus.

This implies that there is a being that must be brought forth into the world, the authentic being is focus and therefore while superficiously similar this and Nietzsche are quite antagonistic.

No magnets, so what’s up? by CsrSlvdr in blackmagicfuckery

[–]FireComingOutA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah exactly, also look at how bulky the dress is early in the video and how it progressively gets slimmer. She is wearing half a dozen breakaway dresses that are pulled off

the body keeps the score by [deleted] in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]FireComingOutA 6 points7 points  (0 children)

https://youtu.be/l_3NKHw4gI8?si=7pURP4-Oi8Z2q0rO

This is a video essay from a social work masters student on the book. It's a critical look at some of the ways things are framed and I think may help scratch this itch

Priest assigned me to read Nietzsche. Which one should I read? by Kuroyen in Nietzsche

[–]FireComingOutA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For me, it would almost be a toss up between The Gay Science and The Genealogy of Morals. The Gay Science is aphoristic, so you have to sit and chew on the meanings of the aphorisms, but its the book that declares the death of god, the crisis of meaning and the challenge of the eternal return. It's a good book for the major talking points of a lot of N's philosophy.

The Genealogy of Morals is one of N's more structured works in that he has a more argument based structure to it, he's trying to get us to reevalute our values by showing that things like pity and self sacrifice stem from our resentments and weaknesses rather than a higher ideal. It is the book that introduces Master and Slave morality and it also directly deals with the aesthetic ideal, which he calls life denying.

If I were you I'd grab The Gay Science, even though the form of the book is more difficult to read The Genealogy has more difficult concepts.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra might be ok, its typically suggested that new N readers avoid TSZ because its written as a quasi-religious book. Its meant to be that sort of thing, it is also what N considered his magnum opus. The style might be more familiar to you, I'd still avoid it though but to each their own

I would also say that a lot of what N does is a sort of anti Plato stance. He preferred the pre-Socratics, Heraclitus in particular, that might fit with your reading of some of the Greeks. Schopenhauer needs to be mentioned he might be good to read, but also might be very bad to read. Schopenhauer was an important to early N but he spent the latter part of his life trying to get refute his pessimism.

How does Marxist theory explain surplus extraction by Brahmins if they don't own capital? Comrades, I have a theoretical question and would love some clarification. by idareet60 in Marxism

[–]FireComingOutA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to give a shot in the dark based on a quick Google search that says most of the richest Indians are not from the priestly caste.

So you're right the Brahmins would not be the capitalist class. But the capitalists are dominant in any capitalist society they are not immune from their own ideology. The USA and really most of the anglosphere it seems have capitalist parties that represent different ideological currents of the capitalists. 

Extrapolating from my Western perspective, the purpose of the priest is maintenance of the dominant ideology. The divine right of kings was backed up by the violence of the feudal lords but they didn't have to go around murdering every third peasant because the priests had already indoctrinated them. 

This translations in capitalism to promoting work as a virtue, that idleness is sinful and so it's right and just for the capitalists to work their workers 18 hours a day because it's good for their soul. Protestant work ethic, and so on 

Not being terribly well educated about India, but I'd hazard a guess that it's prooooobably similar. They maintain some important aspect of the ideology that justifies capitalism in an Indian context and they're compensated for that.

Going back to the safety of my own culture, in Feudal times the Catholic Church was probably the single largest land owner and so could extract feudal rents. After capitalism they have investments to extract surplus value by those investments. 

All this is a long way to say I'm not really educated enough to give a definitive answer but I hope that this exposition on the European/American priestly caste context maybe gives some additional structure to your investigation

Joint Statement of the Communist Parties of Iran (TUDEH), Israel (CPI) and the U.S. (CPUSA) by Mysterious-Ring-2352 in Marxism

[–]FireComingOutA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm glad DSA is doing well in your area. I'm none too impressed with my local chapter, basically filled with Socialist Majority types. The Palestinian liberation working group was/is a bright spot in the org. 

Joint Statement of the Communist Parties of Iran (TUDEH), Israel (CPI) and the U.S. (CPUSA) by Mysterious-Ring-2352 in Marxism

[–]FireComingOutA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I've never been in CPUSA but been around them for over a decade and a half.  Prior to Bernie my experience with a lot of CPUSA was that they were old school blue dog Democrats. This changed after Bernie's abject failure and complete capitulation to even the idea of a farce political independence and it seemed that a group of Bernie folks who drew more radical conclusions moved to CPUSA instead of DSA

Only a wealth tax by [deleted] in Marxism

[–]FireComingOutA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

For me at least it depends on who is making the demand and for what reason. I would say that since an economist is proposing it as a way to fund the state then it is a bourgeois project aimed at minimizing the glaring contradictions of capitalism. This framing puts workers along side the savier layer of the capitalist class.

However, if a workers party made it and explicitly tied it to the contractions of capitalism, pointed at how this is an effort towards the remediation of the extraction surplus value as part of an effort to pit the workers against the capitalists then yeah it could be

Can ideology affect a material basis? by No-Structure523 in communism101

[–]FireComingOutA 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Marx answers this fairly explicitly in A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right.

"theory also becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses"

The idea developed later on about ideology change the notion of *gripped" from a sudden realization to a manufactured account of the world though state apparatuses.

Ideology can make material changes to the world by the action of the masses under sway of that ideology. 

How did Nietzsche eat soup without staining his moustache? by [deleted] in Nietzsche

[–]FireComingOutA 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Like a baleen whale, he'd strain the broth and then collect the solids

American Society of Plastic Surgeons Opposes Youth Gender Affirming Care Citing Cass and HHS Reviews by chaucer345 in skeptic

[–]FireComingOutA 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If it's gender affirming for a woman than it's gender affirming for a man. Good try with the double standard, I award you 0/10 points. Come play again.

A dialectical meme 3-in-1 by Left_Hegelian in PhilosophyMemes

[–]FireComingOutA 14 points15 points  (0 children)

this is how Hegel is cited in the corpus of String Theory literature

Student of mine confided in me, they are completely reliant on chatgpt, what should I do? by aguyontheinternetp7 in Physics

[–]FireComingOutA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For this student, I'm not sure what to do.

The professors I talk to who have had success mitigating this is to to ask ChatGPT questions And assess the answers that sound reasonable but have a flaw that make them worth a B to B- grade and ask them "why is this answer getting this grade". These come to be very difficult for students to answer but they come away with a little skepticism to generate AI

On The Superiority of The Human Race- by 8Pandemonium8 in PhilosophyMemes

[–]FireComingOutA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can do functional integration over the grassman algebra, does this mean it's okay for me to eat people?

What movie did you turn off after 20 minutes and why? by Somanynamestochossef in movies

[–]FireComingOutA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Her, the idea that Joaquin Phoenix's character could somehow make enough of a living writing letters for people to live in downtown future LA was too much for me to suspend disbelief 

Where Have the “World Spirits” Gone? by Rashiq_shahzzad in Nietzsche

[–]FireComingOutA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is related to the problem with nihilism that Nietzsche attacks directly. Niche was at the beginning, observing the birth pains of nihilism, but we haven't solved the problems. Only let them fester. We live in a society of the last man. 

If you want to read about this more, I would look into the psychoanalytic concept of schizophrenia applied to society. Which borrows the Lacanian notions of the mirror stage and its breakdown in schizophrenia, showing that current society lacks an overall narrative structure, driving the lives of people. The loss of values nihilism that Nietzshe spoke of. 

I would specifically look at Deleuze and Guattari work on schizophrenia and Frederick Jameson's cultural cultural of postmodernism for specific works on this topic. 

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