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.)
@femoore12 - I for one am very happy that science and technology have replaced 'mysticism', and I don't need anybody to tell me what I need or don't need in my life. It would be a boring world if we were all the same! What works for one does not necessarily work for everybody else. Happy Holidays!! |
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It is not about science and technology to be replaced by "mysticism" at all... If you understand that this way you are beside the point... My posts are about the way science need to be A LIVED EXPERIENCE not learned dogmas and propositional sentences recipe... Putting in my mouth the alleged fact that science and technology dont work is distorting completely what i spoke about... I am not a nazi proponent of taking the science and putting science under the direction of old paganism.... Goethe would have never be a nazi....The non- goethean existientalist ex phenomenologist Heidegger was.... I am not either a cultist of technology disguised in science clothes in the transhumanist cult... Anyway we cannot convince people to go from comic book to philosophy it seems... Following his own path yes this is right, but ask yourself where it goes.... Slaves are free to keep their chain... Crocodiles are free to keep their tastes... Man are free to look for some light coming from Great men of the past....Marvel comics scientism propaganda is not Goethe reading... Try someone in America then : Charles Sanders Peirce.... Merry Christmast... Every human walk in his own shoe and the wise dont blink about that... Alas! i am not always wise....😁😊😊😊 I am used to speak with students looking for truth... Ripe men working for life and money are not my usual interlocutor... I apologize for my rant here even if i am spot on the matter of the thread... I dont want to hurt anyone feeling but i did in spite of my good will... Merry Christmast....
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"Guess how the first world war was programmed to be, and especially the Versailles treaty after it was programmed to create central bankers control and the second war inevitable modulo the Hitler puppet controlled by banks who are the ONLY reason why Hitler was able to seize power... You know how Lenin was able to go from Swiss to Russia with enough money to finance his propaganda ? Do you think he sell the gold jewels of his mother or he make a fortune in business? 😊 Ask to the first Russian who receive him from debarking the train...Who was with him?"
Great stuff! Sometimes you will have to join the dots yourself because no one else will.
"The more we study the universe the more complex and the more comprehensible it seems the less you can reduce it to a simple unit of understanding... it is then a never ending process to be explanable and an opening IRREDUCIBLE interelated trees of mysteries also AT THE SAME TIMES....The best philosopher who ever explained that was the Greatest romanian thinker in philosophy and the greatest romanian poet...Lucian Blaga...A genius of complete originality and a philosopher of science vastly unrecognized...like Goethe is but for other reasons... why what is more and more explanable without end stay anyway a mystery forever?"
Isn't it a question of how much understanding we need? And to what aims?
A fantastic amount of ingenuity and effort seems to be deployed in the gaining of capital. So much so that most of those who devote themselves to this end often end with terminally increasing cases of OCD that they can never shake off. Klaus Schwab himself is an interesting case. Not only does he look and sound like a Bond villain with Rothschild connections, particulary for man of his age (83) seems unusually obsessed with 'solving' the world's problems. Now if the silly bugger had devoted his time and energy towards better pursuits, such as the improvement of audio playback, he could have ended a superhero, instead of a supervillain.
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We need enough understanding to move our heart in the right direction.... the aims is the only one truth: all is one...Or only love exist at the end and in the beginning and during all time for eternity... Not knowing that is the only tragedy...who want for his children a world without hope nor love, a world where exist ONLY technology ? Knowledge is science moving by the Heart/brain/body toward unity....Technology by itself alone is death by stiffening increased rigidity of our onw body in a hive collective mindset.... Knowledge is not science alone and only nor science is technology alone and only... These three are a dynamical beating musical polarity like the polarity in mammals body between the nerve-sense and metabolic-limb systems and the mediating circulatory-respiratory system... Knowledge is the EMBODIED mediating system between embodied science and embodied technology... Computer programming and A.I. is a powerful tool but the reduction of this complex polarity to a dead logic and to a dead "perfect" world... Guess who want to sell you that? In his " Faust" Goethe call the seller : Mephistophélès.... Before the invention of modern comic book, the "Faust" was the favorite "comic" book across Germany... Our modern comic books by Marvel corporation are only a weakened version of this mother of all comic books...The father of all comic books being the Bible...
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