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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You are naive if you dont know the master plan...

Study one of the rare materialist genius : Bernard Mandeville..Who is the first thinker of mass manipulation ( before Bernays Freud nephew in America) among other fields he created singlehandly like modern market invisible hand thoery before Smith and class theory on a level more clever than MArx...

Marx+Freud+Huxley+Orwell+Smith+ Machiavel in one head, Mandeville anticipated all the theories of these 6 men, or put them like in the Machiavel case on a way deeper level, and sometimes 2 centuries before them which is so great that the austrian economist Hayek did a conference and call him "our master of us all"...Adam Smith is an idiot compared to Mandeville...Even Marx is because Mandeville would have NOTHING to learn from even Freud contrary to Marx...Think about that...Mandeville is not even known nowadays...

The master plan is WRITTEN completely in 1705...

This is HISTORY of philosophy not conspiracy....even Bernays the nephew of Freud and creator singlehandly of all the American modern propaganda machine is a dwarf compared to Mandeville...All Bernays is already in Mandeville books and understanding...

Now guess who read and understand perfectly well Mandeville among his contemporaries? Do you think Hayek was the only one to understand this master almost 2 centuries only after his death ?

I will not go further...Because superficial mind will accuse me of conspiracy theory...An expression if not created, usedwith success, for the UNSOLVED murder of Kennedy even today... Think about that...

But read me right compared to Goethe or Swedenborg the clever genius of Mandeville is not CREATIVE but only TENTACULAR....It is a daemonic mephistophelic intelligence....Thats all... But so clever that Kissinger for example is an idiot compared to this man...I dont say that Mandeville was EVIL, his genius was not the human person... He was a doctor and observe men and completely understood the animal part of men...

No conspiracy or master plan but an incoherent commercialization of culture"

atheist are not very clever either

That's Me !!  I accept my mediocrity. 

I am with you not very clever myself...But i know WHY i am not a genius, i study them all my life and study multi-reading analysis in different fields ... How to make links, relations, and how to analyse a text in a context...

Please understand my point:

I spoke about HISTORY not about my intelligence or yours...

Darwin is more intelligent than you and me probably... But Swedenborg is on a COMPLETE NEW LEVEL compared to even Darwin..

The popularity of an idea dont define his level of depth at all.....Darwin is way more celebrated than Swedenborg but it takes a few minutes of reading history to understand the differences in intelligence here between these two...Swedenborg knowledge is bordering SUPERHUMAN by all facts and testimonies...He was called by ALL the Leonardo Da vinci of the north...

Then reading my post and applying my analysis of history about geniuses to each one of us here is wrong...

Mandeville is an atheist and very clever, a genius... I am not a genius and probably you are not one either...

Then if you feel dumb dont accuse me... History is not full with a crowd of non spiritual, atheists genius, sorry.... Is Dawkins a genius? a clever man yes but nothing more...

Then dont put what i never said in my mouth to distort what i say by interpretating all atheist to be dumb...

The fact is universal genius, not simple genius, are very rarely atheist, i dont even know one...A universal genius is bordering superhuman because he master many fields at once and deeply...

Anyway i apologize if you are hurted by my observation about history...It was not my goal...

I never encounter a dumb mystic in ANY religions... I encounter dumb religious people by great numbers though... Guess why mystics are completely different than all ordinary very religious people? Answer: direct personal experience of the spiritual dimensions and by consequence of it , they wrote rigorous analysis or deep poetic understanding of TRUTH and lived experience compared to school dogmas and religious ideology... Christ is a genious not all christians are.... Freud is a genius not all atheist are...All mystics of all religions understand one another why? they say the same thing and dont repeat dissociative dogmas... Their understanding is not PROPOSITIONAL but EXPERIENTIAL, not discursive only like many theologians but intuitive...Mystics experience UNITY OVER differences and encompassing and generating all differences...

And mediocrity is a point of departure by the way not the end of the road for all of us...

Anyone who dare to understand a genius and why someone is one is HUMBLED completely if not he dont understand at all this genius... Now imagine you try to understand a universal genius like Goethe for example... It takes to Ernst cassirer himself a genius all his life to understand Goethe... Is it mediocrity? Not at all ... But sorry all man are not created equal....

Then if you read my post like an ACUSATION against you i am very sorry but it was not and it is not my goal....And if you think that being atheist is the cleverest of all idea sorry it is not by history testimonies if we study great men.... Read EMERSON...

I apologize to you if i have hurted you... I am sorry...

That’s Me !! I accept my mediocrity.

Just follow the money. Our society revolves around the economy and the economy revolves around marketing and marketing takes no prisoners. Same for hifi. People market all over the place here there and everywhere. Each has their own plan and your spiritual well being is NOT a part of it. It is what it is. A simple power game to obtain a larger portion of the pie. Or merely just someone trying to make a living and get by. Maybe make people happy in the process? No sinister intent. We are human. Humans have needs and desires. Just be mindful. Think for yourself not as others would have you. Yin and Yang. No single truth that explains it all. 

@jpwarren58 

Yes, you got it. That Darwinian social engineering, attaching primordially necessary emotions to play people like puppets to want more and grind for more.

Stoicism teaches us to rationalize this.   Best not to study modern day books, but only the ancients where they were less influenced by materialism.