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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.)

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By the way my most important discovery this year was that we dont know YET what is sound...

Then think twice before reading audio magazine...

The only science is HISTORY of science...To quote Goethe in my own word....I add the word "ONLY " to be more clear using the Goethe sentence...

Idolization of science is SUPERSTITION like in transhumanist cult...

Human spirit progress by METAMORPHOSIS of himself in non linear time,not by a linear progress toward some transhumanist technological hubris "singularity" and HIVE mind...

 

Ok i apologize for my rant but i dont like when some people present their short uninformed opinions like EVIDENT uncontroversial PROVEN fact....

Reality exceed our little convenient opinions and toys....

And being a believer in God of which name you choose to name him or it, is no more stupid than being an activist atheist and materialist like Dawkins......in fact it is less stupid if we inform ourself...

I will myself adopt the less stupid and narrow stance... Guess which one and why ?

 

I forgot to correct my post: there is THREE parts in the Bruno Groning documentary: more than 4 hours...

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@rodman99999 

😂  now that kinda philosophy is my speed!  

merry christmas 

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@nonoise

wisdom is indeed wasted on the old and irrelevant members of society...

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@mahgister -     If you'd care to conduct a scientific experiment, regarding that hypothesis: stop over sometime.

     I have numerous ways to explore your proposition; IF you have the FAITH!

"Sorry but Neither God or Nietsche could die...

Our notion of dying is medically under revision now..."

 

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I had faith from my young age...

Faith in the only intellectual discovery in all my lifetime...

The distribution of prime numbers is the most complex object existing in ANY possible cosmos or transcending ANY universe... The prime number distribution is a fixated instantaneous image of the dynamical cosmic memory...Nothing less.... Like an image on a cinematographic film ribbon containing many other one...

I did not sleep over that for a month when i was 24 years old......

Someone else discovered it in his own way with way greater mathematical skill than me but it is too complex to be judged here... There even exist a worldwide controversy right now about this mathematical theory... A fascinating story in the making right now...

Shinichi Mochizuki , the great japanese mathematician , the greatest after Grothendieck his master, he called it "inter-universal geometry"...

I believe only mathematicians and mystics...

All the rest is only limited physical experiments...Or otherwise technological or religious superstitions...

 

 

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