Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption

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. 

Spirit is what informs one. Material interests, information, data all emanate from human spirit. One has the freedom to choose what spirits inform. Choose malevolent spirits, anger, complaint consumes, choose good spirit, experience a more measured mind.

Wisdom is good spirit, knowledge only elementary. Having the widest possible perspective is what wisdom seeker after. Having only self perspective is blind man, everything zero sum game. One can only gain wisdom with courage, fear closes doors, courage opens.

And its not enough to merely read the words and digest facts, one must encounter the spirit, in other words be empathetic to those with differing perspectives. Intention then becomes known, spirit drives intention, intention is the spirit.

So much conflict created by misjudging intention. Understanding intention or keeping mindful one may not know another's  intent will help mediate one's reaction.

Some say love is greatest lacking in world, I've always thought empathy greatest lacking.

Great post and totally right... Thanks ...