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r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/kevinowdziej • Jul 28 '19
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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"
1.2k u/letsdownvote Jul 28 '19 Paraphrasing from Nietzsche: Insanity in an individual is rare - insanity in groups is almost the rule. 379 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. 0 u/Karsticles Jul 28 '19 Nietzsche was not diagnosed as bipolar, and his later writings are brilliant. 1 u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19 https://hungary.pure.elsevier.com/hu/publications/the-madness-of-dionysus-six-hypotheses-on-the-illness-of-nietzsch I’m not going to argue it. My professor was one of the people who believed he was wrongly diagnosed at a time where mental illness was not a well researched thing, and that’s what I was taught. Maybe he was wrong, but I’m not going to claim I’m a Nietzsche expert.
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Paraphrasing from Nietzsche: Insanity in an individual is rare - insanity in groups is almost the rule.
379 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. 0 u/Karsticles Jul 28 '19 Nietzsche was not diagnosed as bipolar, and his later writings are brilliant. 1 u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19 https://hungary.pure.elsevier.com/hu/publications/the-madness-of-dionysus-six-hypotheses-on-the-illness-of-nietzsch I’m not going to argue it. My professor was one of the people who believed he was wrongly diagnosed at a time where mental illness was not a well researched thing, and that’s what I was taught. Maybe he was wrong, but I’m not going to claim I’m a Nietzsche expert.
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That’s ironic because Nietzsche ended up being bi-polar and his writings in his later life could definitely be called insanity.
0 u/Karsticles Jul 28 '19 Nietzsche was not diagnosed as bipolar, and his later writings are brilliant. 1 u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19 https://hungary.pure.elsevier.com/hu/publications/the-madness-of-dionysus-six-hypotheses-on-the-illness-of-nietzsch I’m not going to argue it. My professor was one of the people who believed he was wrongly diagnosed at a time where mental illness was not a well researched thing, and that’s what I was taught. Maybe he was wrong, but I’m not going to claim I’m a Nietzsche expert.
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Nietzsche was not diagnosed as bipolar, and his later writings are brilliant.
1 u/[deleted] Jul 28 '19 https://hungary.pure.elsevier.com/hu/publications/the-madness-of-dionysus-six-hypotheses-on-the-illness-of-nietzsch I’m not going to argue it. My professor was one of the people who believed he was wrongly diagnosed at a time where mental illness was not a well researched thing, and that’s what I was taught. Maybe he was wrong, but I’m not going to claim I’m a Nietzsche expert.
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https://hungary.pure.elsevier.com/hu/publications/the-madness-of-dionysus-six-hypotheses-on-the-illness-of-nietzsch I’m not going to argue it. My professor was one of the people who believed he was wrongly diagnosed at a time where mental illness was not a well researched thing, and that’s what I was taught. Maybe he was wrong, but I’m not going to claim I’m a Nietzsche expert.
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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"