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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I am sorry and i apologize....

I will stay mute if no other materialist affirm his faith like a fact...

My only excuse is none of my post are boring at least....

Promise....

But i am off-topic yes...

Finally Hilde45 you were right about me from the begininng  i wrote too much lenghty posts...

 

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To get back to the OP at least Nietzsche includes something I can relate too. 

whereas, while it is to some extent a matter of money, 

Otherwise us peons should shutup and continue eating cake. 

Are there humans devoid of spirit, or is it only unknown to themselves? God and N not dead as long as they evoke spirit in others.

 

Spirit much like love, sometimes spontaneous combustion within us, other times dies without warning. When it leaves us, where does it go? Why is love and spirit so often thought of as coming from the heart? 

 

Some claim to read chakras, some feel vibrations, often called vibes, auras, etc. in response to all sorts of stimulus. These are symptoms or forms of spirit reported by humans down through history, universal and timeless.