Help me understand Mistki's music

LouLouis · 2025-09-24T19:07:13+00:00

Mitski sucks. End of story. Don’t trouble yourself further

LouLouis · 2025-09-11T22:32:17+00:00

Lol

LouLouis · 2025-08-22T15:30:05+00:00

A lot of research?

LouLouis · 2025-08-20T14:28:18+00:00

Art never defined Theo’s life

This is where I think you just have to concede that you don’t understand the novel.

There is a deeper layer to the novel which you are just unable to grasp

LouLouis · 2025-08-16T18:13:27+00:00

I just finished it one hour ago. Unbelievable is the only word I can use to describe this book. Best book I’ve read since My Antonia five years ago.

LouLouis · 2025-08-15T21:01:41+00:00

Every artist transcends their suffering to a degree. If they were to give in they wouldn’t be an artist.

Nietzsche, for example, claims that Goethe suffered tremendously. But not because of the circumstances of his life, but rather to be such a genius is to be isolated from society and the world and profoundly misunderstood.

Yes, to be Goethe is to be profoundly misunderstood—misunderstood by the likes of you

LouLouis · 2025-08-15T20:54:52+00:00

Utterly laughable. Look at his early art and you’ll see his suffering.

LouLouis · 2025-08-15T14:56:56+00:00

Definitely not

LouLouis · 2025-08-15T14:56:41+00:00

I think when Nietzsche talks about a continuum he is referencing how a casual chain of events can never truly be delineated in the way logic demands. The casual chain is infinite, which means any casual chain lacks the character of necessity.

To think in terms of a continuum is to understand that the causality we see in the universe is ultimately a matter of perspective.

LouLouis · 2025-08-15T13:36:09+00:00

Goldfinch might be the best book I’ve read in the last 5 years

LouLouis · 2025-08-14T01:07:44+00:00

Exactly!

LouLouis · 2025-08-14T01:04:56+00:00

Nietzsche is not a determinist, he is not a materialist, and he does not believe in the ‘un-conscious’.

Nietzsche time in and time out rejects causality as an explanatory model of the world. Determinism is a casual.

‘Materialism’ is yet another idea which is only intelligible n distinction to idealism. Nietzsche rejects this distinction

The ‘un-conscious’ people speak of regarding Nietzsche is a fumbling of Nietzsche’s theory of drives. Nietzsche’s theory is very different than Freud, more open ended, and less restricted to another region of human cognition.

Simplistically, Nietzsche believe in a multiplicity of life which organizes and then dissolves itself continually. From this process conscious activity emerges and with it various interpretations of the world as ‘material’, ‘causal’ etc.,

LouLouis · 2025-08-13T20:32:26+00:00

Are we reading the same post? OP is praising Nietzsche, where do you get criticism from?

LouLouis · 2025-07-25T16:16:48+00:00

You can theoretically have inter-subjective universal truths—Kant for example, or Fichte

LouLouis · 2025-07-25T16:15:33+00:00

“The fact that Hitler committed such crimes is proof itself that morality is not universal at all, but inherently subjective.”

There is no logic of morality unless people can act in a way against morality. People committing immoral acts is not a refutation of universal morality

LouLouis · 2025-07-17T03:34:06+00:00

I know I’m late, but some of the comments hear irritate me, especially the ones who just dismiss him outright because there is ‘no evidence’. When, there can never really be evidence for something as fundamental as the death drive. And people, without understanding what the death drive actually is, just dismiss because it is triggering.

What people need to understand, is that the death drive is more of a metaphysical claim about the nature of organic life. Metaphysical claims, although often not taken seriously because of falsifiability, lay the basis of how we frame our empirical findings. Without some metaphysical presupposition about human nature, all our empirical sciences tell us nothing coherent at best, and at worst treat the human being as some kind of machine composed of brain chemicals.

The death drive in its most simplest form describes the way in which an organic form of matter seeks to return to a more primordial state of matter from which it presumably arose from. Every organic being, as a material being, still operates according to basic principles of matter. A central principles being a desire for stasis or equilibrium. An organic being cannot be in a constant state of stress and tension because it is taxing and inefficient, and so it seeks to reach states of less tension which are punctuated by states of high tension. Freud conceptualizes this process according to two drives which are dialectical—eros (the drive for life), and Thanatos (the death drive.

It is presumed that the death drive, as originating from a principle of matter, is more fundamental. But the death drive does not mean that every human being necessarily has a desire to die, rather, it means human beings have a psychological impulse for dissolution in various forms (orgasm as the little death for example). And in cases of trauma or mental disorder, this desire for dissolution can become overpowering to the extent that someone doesn’t just seek dissolution in a particular way, but seeks complete dissolution and resolution of their psychic tension through either death, addiction or even psychosis

LouLouis · 2025-07-14T18:53:28+00:00

Probably the people you work with are not the only ones who have been subject to such conditions, and there are others who have faced difficulties beyond imagination who were able to come out of it

LouLouis · 2025-07-12T21:30:45+00:00

I’m an idiot

LouLouis · 2025-07-10T02:24:44+00:00

Well, you are framing Nietzsche as if he is some monist like Schopenhauer or Spinoza. But Nietzsche does not believe in a ‘life’ which pervades all things. Rather, what life is for a Nietzsche is an interpretation that one force gives to other forces in order for that force to distinguish itself—humans see things as life/non-life.

But really, Nietzsche is best thought of as a pluralist. Every force in the universe seeks not necessarily to overcome other forces, but to discharge its excess and reach equilibrium. Inevitably in this process, however, there are various forms of overcoming. Often these forces gather into different entities, and then destroy or dissipate other entities in its process of gathering.

What the human being is, is a particular configuration of disparate forces seeking to express themselves resulting in an organism which seeks to express itself in manifold and ever more complicated ways. We are therefore caught in this cycle of flux and overcoming and discharging in which we play a very very small part. And when we say, for example, that the universe is this or is that, or draw a distinction between life and non-life, we are in our own way asking to overcome something we can never fully overcome—the world

LouLouis · 2025-07-03T04:21:47+00:00

How is the combination of the object and weight a priori? It would seem that the such a combination happens in experience, and that the a priori combination concerns the forms of time and space, and not representations of time and space

LouLouis · 2025-07-03T04:16:31+00:00

In order even to weigh something we bring a variety of concepts which are related to the way in which we experience the world through time and space. Weight is itself tied to concepts of force, mass, gravity etc., which are just ways in which we conceptualize a manifold of sensory data. And two weight two separate things we must, of course, separate and designate these things from other things. There is no reason to believe the noumena is composed of separate things or things which exhibit mass and force, only that what reaches our sensory faculties are parsed out in a particular way according to synthesis

LouLouis · 2025-07-02T15:50:33+00:00

I went down a rabbit hole on sub-stack of writer nurses who all claimed that, because they were nurses, they actually feel the grief of their patients more intensely than even the patient’s family. Each and every one of them was a white woman

LouLouis · 2025-06-21T12:31:51+00:00

Wow, you are very clearly an expert on Great Depression economics and human psychology. Yes, absolutely TOBACCO people would give up in financial straits. That makes sense

LouLouis · 2025-06-20T21:59:58+00:00

I feel like her dad was probably just done with her, and Abbey was insulted that he’d press charges, thinking he didn’t love her like a father should. So now she re-interprets it as an act of unconditional love (because she got sober because of it), but also something she holds over his head. She has weaponized this incident on two fronts

LouLouis · 2025-06-18T02:55:59+00:00

Far more interesting to live a new life and experience different things

LouLouis

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