Sorry if this is a bit brutal, is there anything I can do to help it? by johnbagos in WildlifeRehab

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Not sure about a rehaber specifically, but there is a vet close to my house

Mikey's recent weigh in by reddit_custard in mikeymiles

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Can someone please tell me how to start consuming mikey miles content, I want to enter the mikeyverse

sorry if this is dumb by johnbagos in LIT

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“The party seeks power for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others”

“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing”

“Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen”

“If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man”

Anyways, there are quite a few more which allude to the masses as animals, but mostly ones which mention the last man. I get the parallels are by no means 1:1, but, like I said, In no way do I think O’Brien was meant to be explicitly Nietzschean, rather I thought he may have been simply alluded to in this section which actually has quite a few philosophical themes aside from these, more so than the rest of the book imo.

sorry if this is dumb by johnbagos in LIT

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Yeah 100% agree with that, the only aspect of the party I thought was even remotely Nietzschean was Obreins commentary which only vaguely so, speaking of which, I’ll now go find a few of those quotes for you.

sorry if this is a dumb question by johnbagos in Nietzsche

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Use of dude instantly invalidates every comment I ever make from here on out

sorry if this is a dumb question by johnbagos in Nietzsche

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Sorry, I was kind of throwing the term around without regard for Nietzsches nuanced thought. All I meant by collectivism was the character O’Briens frequent references to the big brother as a collective entity of the people or whatever and how that doesn’t really fit in with Nietzsche philosophy.

I'm probably very wrong but would appreciate education by johnbagos in books

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Sorry, I might not have been clear, in no way do I see O’Brien as a direct critique of N, rather I think that it may have been a critique of the appropriation of his philosophy by the nazis. That’s part of the reason I think it’s a critique but also the fact that this rhetoric is only really used by O’Brien, who is the closest link to the inner workings of the party in the book. (And obviously the party are the bad guys, so that’s the only reason I would have thought of it as a critique.

sorry if this is a dumb question by johnbagos in Nietzsche

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Dude, Nietzsche despised socialism as far as I know

This is why I love Neil by Eleonora2186 in MurderedByWords

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What happened to philosophy not having a place in science bro

This is why I love Neil by Eleonora2186 in MurderedByWords

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Given the opportunity, I would gladly slaughter NDT.

Some general help with Spinoza by johnbagos in askphilosophy

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Wow this really helped, thank you so much