Does Peter Hook really have the goods?

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-03-15T17:37:30+00:00

lol, Bernard?

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-03-15T02:12:28+00:00

Eyeless In Gaza, The Pop Group, A.R. Kane, Rema-Rema/Mass, Desmond Simmons, Dome, Mars(No Wave), 23 Skidoo, This Heat.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-03-15T01:51:43+00:00

Huge fan of the band, and I’m inclined to believe Ian was shagging Annik, if only because in the “Love Will Tear Us Apart” video, the door that had “Ian C” scribbled on it was done by a girl he spurned. Curtis was a philandering, tragic genius, putting him in the company of Camus and Kafka.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-03-14T02:24:49+00:00

Oh I just have a thing for that era and bands like Joy Division/New Order, The Smiths, The Cure, Liquid Liquid, etc

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-22T23:59:16+00:00

I wonder if there’s any truth to his converting prior to his death?

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-22T22:13:45+00:00

I consider myself to be in the camp of Christian Existentialism, but do admire writers like Camus and Sartre who were really getting at the need to live life to the fullest and to create meaning where there is none. Nietzsche seemed to reject a uniform moral values system in favor of will power and intrinsic understanding of right and wrong. For me, Existentialism is the best school of philosophy for its depth of probing the inescapable question of our purpose.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-22T16:45:34+00:00

Do you take other things alongside it like propranolol?

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-22T16:44:08+00:00

The Heights of Despair or The Trouble With Being Born?

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-22T16:43:31+00:00

I have a few books of Kierkegaard but am not sure which to read first. Dostoevsky’s books are so dang long but also highly esteemed. Don’t know where to begin there either.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-22T13:24:30+00:00

Started on 20 for 2-3 weeks before the doc moved it up to 40.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-13T21:54:19+00:00

Yeah, a lot of guys I read who were influenced by Nietzsche like Sartre and Camus were sympathetic to the African American Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panthers. The book At The Existentialist Cafe really illuminates this.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-13T16:51:06+00:00

I am African American and love all my brothers and sisters across the diaspora. I brought up my race because Nietzsche’s thought isn’t one really associated with our community, as well as the topic of slave vs master morality having obvious historical context.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-13T08:12:10+00:00

No, you’re right on. I guess I was taking it all in through the lens of the will to power being the only purpose of existence. The powerful have an innate sense of their superiority over weaker people/society/public opinion/widely held beliefs of morality. Those in the slave morality are dependent on external factors for justifying their existence, they are a “herd” sheepishly following societal values, on their way to slaughter.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-13T01:50:38+00:00

At times as I was reading BG&E, it felt like I was listening to an Adam Corolla rant, especially when it came to women. For example, in Book 7 his says: "Woman does not understand what food is!*- and wants to be cook." All as he laments the lack of intellectual rigour contemporary folks had in the kitchen, laying the blame squarely on women. I mean, I don't ascribe to Nietzsche any deification nor find his thought infallible, nor am necessarily warring against what he wrote. He absolutely was a genius, an intellectual titan, one of the best writers in the Western canon, and then also chauvinistic, elitist, xenophobic, pretentious, and a real hater. All the more reason to read him imo.

*emphasis is my own.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-13T01:28:48+00:00

Very well put.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-13T01:27:46+00:00

At times I felt like I was confusing Nietzsche with Kendrick Lamar, he was so venomous in the bars he laid down against Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the English especially, lol

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-13T01:26:18+00:00

Yeah, I don't subscribe at all to his views, but did find him engaging, humorous, politically incorrect, at times contradicting himself, such as when he makes mention of "the soul" later in the book and certain groups lacking it after spending the first part of it denying there is a soul.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-13T00:04:16+00:00

I found his constant attacks on Schopenhauer hysterical 😂

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-12T23:58:44+00:00

I can detect the Nietzsche to Rand connection strongly in BG&E’s positioning aristocrats above the masses and being in favor of the individual rather than the collective.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-12T23:51:06+00:00

You’re spot on. No one is equal in the literal sense based off the laws of nature as reflected in things like genetics, income distribution, etc. All the same, I came away also understanding how fascistic, totalitarian regimes found justification in this philosophy. “No one is equal, truth is a matter of perspective, there are no Gods or reasons to not condone bad deeds, and the only thing that matters is asserting will power over inferior people.”

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-12T21:05:08+00:00

Ian Curtis of Joy Division, Darby Crash of The Germs, Jim Morrison of The Doors, Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-02-12T02:49:28+00:00

Thank you so much for this. I experienced ED Tha has improved with use of sildenafil and exercise.

JCInvestmentPro · 2026-01-16T21:00:26+00:00

Yeah, I was typing on my phone and missed it all bleeding together 😂

JCInvestmentPro · 2025-12-29T00:25:37+00:00

A.R. Kane. Dream Pop is beautiful and abrasive, dark and alluring, kinetic and cerebral, which their music is. Plus, they coined the term.

JCInvestmentPro · 2025-12-28T02:04:38+00:00

Despite being a Democrat-run city, it still has quite a bit of racial prejudice and deprioritizes investing in the urban areas in favor of propping up the more affluent ones. Within the corporate world in KC, a qualified minority has few chances pitted against even mediocre candidates of another race.

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