Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption

Came across this today. A lot of posts bring up the issue of "how much is enough?" or "when is audio consumption justified" etc.

Does this Nietzsche aphorism apply to audio buying? You be the judge!

Friedrich Nietzsche: “Danger in riches. — Only he who has spirit ought to have possessions: otherwise possessions are a public danger. For the possessor who does not know how to make use of the free time which his possessions could purchase him will always continue to strive after possessions: this striving will constitute his entertainment, his strategy in his war against boredom.

Thus in the end the moderate possessions that would suffice the man of spirit are transformed into actual riches – riches which are in fact the glittering product of spiritual dependence and poverty. They only appear quite different from what their wretched origin would lead one to expect because they are able to mask themselves with art and culture: for they are, of course, able to purchase masks. By this means they arouse envy in the poorer and the uncultivated – who at bottom are envying culture and fail to recognize the masks as masks – and gradually prepare a social revolution: for gilded vulgarity and histrionic self-inflation in a supposed ‘enjoyment of culture’ instil into the latter the idea ‘it is only a matter of money’ – whereas, while it is to some extent a matter of money, it is much more a matter of spirit.”

Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1996. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits. Cambridge University Press. (p. 283-4, an aphorism no. 310)

I'm pretty sure @mahgister will want to read this one! (Because they speak so artfully about avoiding the diversion that consumption poses to the quest for true aesthetic and acoustic excellence.)

hilde4512-18-2021 2:42pm

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rodman99999 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 6,131 posts 12-21-2021 at 08:15pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Secrets to Inner Peace If you can start the day without caffeine, If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains, If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles, If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it, If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time, If you can take criticism and blame without resentment , If you can conquer tension without medical help, If you can relax without alcohol, If you can sleep without the aid of drugs, Then You Are Probably The Family Dog! And you thought I was going to get all spiritual .... Handle every Stressful situation like a dog. If you can't eat it or play with it, Piss on it and walk away
rodman99999 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 6,131 posts 12-21-2021 at 08:22pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 13,012 posts 12-21-2021 at 08:41pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Sorry but Neither God or Nietsche could die... Our notion of dying is medically under revision now... It is vastly proven by hospital medical research ( not a Fauci paid for hospital though guess why?) that cousciousness could exist OUT of the body...a falling body and his decomposition dont mean ABSOLUTE destruction anymore...Save for transhumanist cultist.... And for the possibility of miracles the most interesting miracles PUBLICLY recognized in the 20th century were worked by an ordinary man on CROWDS of thousand of sick and paralysed people for years... Some Doctors were so afraid they almost kill him and jail him at all cost... They feel completely humiliated...It remind me of the actual health crisis by some aspects...A man named Christ did the same some years ago....Think about his fate.... Groning prove that this Jesus was not a lying crook created by superstition perhaps...By the way i am not a religious person but i am not a childish ideologist of matter static atomic only real existence and flat earth reality either... Try to listen to this 3 hours totally true documentary and try to debunk the testimonies .... Good luck...Bruno Groning actions was one of the most mysterious healing spritual feat of the century because it concern THOUSANDS of miracles in one fell swoop...With doctors verifications in many many cases... The world is not what simplistic materialist theory said it is... Study and think.... Opinions are not of any interest.... This is the first part, it is more than very interesting, it is SPELLBINDING..No Dysney movie would have take this on a film because it is IMPOSSIBLE to believe this especially in a movie which want to stay credible ... But all really happen and is DOCUMENTED by testimonies and photographs ....Negationist beware...Documents are fake or real there is nothing else between these 2 alternatives....
mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 13,012 posts 12-21-2021 at 09:03pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete By the way this is a little enigma for materialist: there exist people who live normal life, and even a case where it was a mathematician, with almost no brain at all , then if you think consciousness is produced ONLY by the brain think twice: Can You Live Without a Brain? \| Office for Science and Society - McGill University I cannot wait to read materialist ideologue trying to debunk these two perfectly documented facts in history... I suggest geometry, number theory and quantum mechanics... And why not biographies of the greatest mystics in all religions? Try to Debunk Emmanuel Swedenborg for example one of the greatest scientist and mystic of his time who was the first scientist of the Sweden kingdom all his life in ALL fields..Even the poor Kant could not debunk him...He tried hard in a book.... You think that this mystic visionary who visit hell and paradise out of his body every day was a crook... Ok read that opinion about only ONE of his expertise field by a modern neurologist: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18641979/ ABSTRACT: «I discuss three examples of neuroscientists whose ideas were ignored by their contemporaries but were accepted as major insights decades or even centuries later. The first is Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) whose ideas on the functions of the cerebral cortex were amazingly prescient. The second is Claude Bernard (1813-1878) whose maxim that the constancy of the internal environment is the condition for the free life was not understood for about 50 years when it came to dominate the development of modern physiology. The third is Joseph Altman (1925-) who overturned the traditional dogma that no new neurons are made in the adult mammalian brain and was vindicated several decades later.» Study and think BEFORE believing in the only EXISTENCE of "matter" or in the INEXISTENCE of ghosts or spirits.... Our own spirit we feel it and matter external to us it is ONLY a convenient HYPOTHESIS...Nothing more...
nonoise Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 10,842 posts 12-21-2021 at 09:05pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete So tempting to link NIN's Heresy..........