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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It is not Nietszche who finally could understood mankind folly after Mandeville master control theory, it is Dostoievsky the deepest Christian critic who explain it all and is way more deep than Mandeville himself...

If you dont like to read much, read the short novel so deep than it takes many reading to undertstand it a bit :

«the dream of a ridiculous man"

All the sory of the spiritual cosmos in a few pages...

Dostoievsky is so deep almost all scientist nowadays dont even understood him a bit and will file his book on the rubric religious madness...

Only Goethe is on par with Dostoievsky genius but not about human society, almost no one here is on par with D. but about the meaning of science and his relation to the soul....

Goethe cannot be filed in the rubric "religious madness"...He was a natural scientist on par with Darwin whicih is unrecognized even today in english circle, and after his death his collection of natural samples minerals,vegetals,or animals was one of the greatest in Europe...Goethe has developed his own evolution and mophological very deep theory and method deeper than Darwin...But less easy to explain and less easy to use in the wrong way... Very few mewn in history are on par with him with intelligence: Leonardo Da vinci, Archimedes, Aristotle dont look for any men under these geniuses for axample... Who is the only poet to contradict Newton and proving him wrong? Guess who....

But Goethe is too deep to begin with and less essential in understanding society than D....

Read only masters and disciples of the masters...

For sure all is already written in few words by Lao-Tse or Christ....But it is too deeply implicit here to be taken seriously by supposed enlightened mind of today...

If you want very short version of the spiritual cosmos history with no christian influence, then take Friedrich Von Kleist few pages "Puppets Theater" ..

A treatise in few pages so deep that he resume ALL martial arts and all mankind history like the Genesis book but in a very different perspective...

Goethe himself encountered Kleist and was "afraid" by this overpowering uncontrolled genius... That speak volume about Goethe and about Kleist...Alas! Kleist suffer too much to stay balanced exactly like Nietszche was ....

My posts remind me of my job now retired i was teaching multidisciplinary reading analysis...

The main important fact in reading analysis is the complementary interprenetrating contextual perspective in all fields... Contrary to relativistic deconstruction method my understanding was that there is only ONE fact in the universe: all is one....

i thank all for your patience with my loneliness...

 

 

 

 

We're living in the land of make-believe
And trying not to let it show
Maybe in that land of make-believe
Heartaches can turn into joy.
We're breathing in the smoke of high and low
We're taking up a lot of room
Somewhere in the dark and silent night
Our prayer will be heard, make it soon.
So fly little bird
Up into the clear blue sky
And carry the word
Love's the only reason why, why.
OPen up the shutters on your windows
Unlock all the locks upon your doors
Brush away the cobwebs from your day-dreams
No secrets come between us any more
Oh say it's true
Only love will see you through
You know what love can do to you.

Thanks for this poem that speak more well than any analysis anyway...

Poets are salt of the earth....

Best thread I've read here in a while.  It confirms the self-evident, yet brutal strength of truth: it exists regardless of what I or anyone else thinks or understands.

@mahgister,

"Invite Rockfeller now and Karl Schwab and ask them where Mandeville is the greatest , they will say manipulation of masses and Crowd psychology..."

 

"Now guess what Freud and his nephew Edward Bernays would say about our master....They will say that he discover the unconscious and his way of working in a more general way than Freud himself thought in a more restricted way because Freud had no deep sociological insight in the collective...."

 

I'm sure Freud would regard the way his work has been used as a great tragedy.

Given his unprecedented understanding of the human psyche, he'd hardly be surprised to see it thus.

Whether the intention is to accrue yet even more lucrative income streams (Kissinger) or the enforcement of a barbaric final solution to the global population problem in order to preserve some self nominated elite (Schwab), this is indeed the era of the psychological warfare.

The Plandemic is their greatest triumph so far.

These guys make Mao look like an unambitious piker.

Oh well, at least it seems to be an advance over simply blowing each other up.