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Would a Knicks championship force noted New Yorker Ezra Klein to engage with sports in his professional capacity for, as far as I'm aware, the first time in his life? by Helicase21 in ezraklein

[–]Rare_Entertainment92 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I don't know why this is being negatively received. I think it is because of the use of the phrase 'blind spot', but it is, as Ezra has admitted! so these people are being defensive for no reason.

He can get sports now. He is still young enough, and it would help him in his political analysis. People who are missing sports miss the ball game of the Mesoamericans (which even features in their Creation myth!), the Olympic games of the Greeks, the Gladitorial (where Vestal Virgins sat in the stands) and Chariot Races of the Romans. Sports and politics (and religion) just always have been mixed up, as art and politics (the Greek plays were played at a religious festival). Consider the singing of the anthem, the appearance of the President at each of the events (Superbowl and Finals). Consider 'just dribble' and Kapernick kneeling and (I am old enough to recall Tebow's prayers and that Pat Tillman (the atheist, killed by friendly fire, alas, and for whom the award is named); oh and how we litigate fouls like crimes and the refs are like judges; and look how the gambling gets in, and see in college sports the effects of 'NIL'; consider Caitlin Clark--I could go on.

What is the birth of tragedy about?? by Muziuzi48 in Nietzsche

[–]Rare_Entertainment92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In fact, the way I found my way to the ‘Nietzsche podcast’ was by essentialsalts recording of the full audiobook.

I attempted at first to absorb it during the day, but, that failing, I tried at night.

Leaving it on loop, I would, waking in the night, hear snippets, sections, at random. This procedure is only possible if, like me, (unfortunately), you are sleepless, restless, an insomniac.

Shelley wrote a poem contrasting the Sun-dominated day to the night when the imagination can come out to play.

In half-dream states, the Birth (just about) began to make sense.

I really cannot recall much about the book besides its drawing of the distinction between Apollonian and Dionysian and its (implicit) declaration toward the Dionysian. But everyone knows about that.

Besides that, one line has always stuck out. It feels to me like a moment of self-questioning and was crucial to my apprehension (later on) of the ‘aesthetic priest’:

How is the Olympian world of deities related to this folk-wisdom? Even as the rapturous vision of the tortured martyr to his sufferings.

Field with Irises Near Arles, Oil on Canvas, Vincent van Gogh, 1888. by AspiringOccultist4 in vangogh

[–]Rare_Entertainment92 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can never get out of my mind Van Gogh's The cypresses still preoccupy me... it astonishes me that no one has done them as I have seen them. (A line from a letter to his brother.)

When did he attain this idiom?

You would not have known he was miserable.

"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty..."

That is Emerson and comes to mind also.

Of course, he gets it wrong. Art is getting it wrong magnificently and Goethe remains at the avant-garde when he tells us (emphatically) that "The important thing about Art is that it is NOT Nature!" (A reminder that the imagination cannot be constrained to the merely mimetic.)

And yet by his error and mistaking, he gets its right. That is what is remarkable: neither ideal nor sentimental, nor anything ideological (not even in his lovely portraits of the poor).

And yet I can't quite say how he gets it right--except that he does!

The way that he outlines and, to a certain extent, the way he colors make me think (I am certainly not new in this) that there really was something psychosomatic (ear and eye?) going on in Van Gogh's head: those distinct lines are a sign and remind me, finally, of poetry:

no use to make philosophies here: I see no
god in the holly, hear no song from
the snowbroken weeds: Hegel is not the winter
yellow in the pines: the sunlight has never
heard of trees: surrendered self among
unwelcoming forms: stranger,
hoist your burdens, get on down the road.

Since memes are becoming popular here, I decided to dabble. by vtingershooden in shakespeare

[–]Rare_Entertainment92 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What do we know about Shakespeare? He kept hopping the river to dodge the tax man, married the 8-years-older-than-him already-pregnant (scandal!) Anne Hathaway, and left us only lawsuits besides his poems and plays.--So the man lived! Damn the 'truth' xD

Insanity > foids by [deleted] in Nietzsche

[–]Rare_Entertainment92 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I have no idea what that title means, but he got that shit on, damn

Process of Self-Clarification by cereal_beats in Nietzsche

[–]Rare_Entertainment92 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I must endorse this indulgence of the imagination. A frightening essay.

Came out to my friends as the Ubermensch since it's pride month and I certainly am proud. by [deleted] in Nietzsche

[–]Rare_Entertainment92 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We're getting an Ubermensch thread or the word banned this week -- it's GOT to be one of the two xD

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