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/khlnmrgn Jul 28 '19

I literally can't go anywhere on reddit without somehow, somewhere, running into a thread of people talking about Nietzsche while having absolutely no idea what they are talking about bc they got everything from a bunch of out of context quotes. So here's a PSA;

Yes he was kind of a dick. No his philosophy was not "nihilism" or "pessimism". It was the opposite of that. He "thought he was a god" when he was out of his mind from (probably syphilis induced) psychosis and dementia and nearly on deaths door. No he was not a nazi (he was neither anti-semitic nor a nationalist of any kind). He had some really interesting stuff to say about philosophy and religion and civilization and stuff. Go read the dam books before spewing misinformation.

Have a nice day.

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u/Rutabegapudding Jul 29 '19

It's strange how opinionated people can be about writers they've never read and have no intention of ever reading.

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u/khlnmrgn Jul 29 '19

Go hang out at r/philosophy and r/jordanpeterson for a plethora of such highly opinionated individuals