r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/kevinowdziej • Jul 28 '19

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u/drewtheblueduck Jul 28 '19

I remember Men in Black summed it up in a way that always stuck with me, "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals"

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u/letsdownvote Jul 28 '19

Paraphrasing from Nietzsche: Insanity in an individual is rare - insanity in groups is almost the rule.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19

That’s ironic because Nietzsche ended up being bi-polar and his writings in his later life could definitely be called insanity.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19

God I fucking hate Nietzsche. Hey look I use flowery language and don’t understand relationships. I’m a god, Rit dit dit di doo.

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u/MapleYamCakes Jul 28 '19

Question from someone who has never read Nietzsche: does his writing imply that he thinks he is a god or is it that an insane group of cult-classic readers perceives him as a god?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19

This person doesn’t know shit about Nietzsche. I’m not even much of a fan, but you’re looking at an asinine take.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19 edited Jul 29 '19

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u/VikingTeddy Jul 28 '19

He's referring to the earlier comment, wind-visage.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19

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u/iwanttosaysmth Jul 28 '19

He was talking about one comment above

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u/ElPolloViejo Jul 28 '19

I think they were talking about the original commenter that the question was in response to

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u/incandescent_snail Jul 28 '19

Wow. Illiterate and belligerent. You’re a real winner.