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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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Imagination is more powerful than anything real?

Why?

Because our own imagination is the mother of OUR reality... Without a father this mother deliver only half-dead monsters haunting her and created only by his uncontrolled dreams...

Guess who is the father?

Call it unity, God, love, spirit, the tao, the name dont matter because to deliver a children we need a mother AND a father....The names matter not....

 

By the way for my fellow english reader who love freedom...No spirit is so great and free than William Blake who contrary to Niesztche never fall for a science and technology without a soul...He was wise among the wisest and his prophecies and mythological poems are WARNING in the midst of the Great-Britain industrial age and Empire and technology of enslavement using Mandeville recipe book...Blake wrote ONLY  one prophecy about the destruction of mankind and of the soul...I cannot say how i love William Blake ... A true seer, poet and an artist engraver  impossible to forgot, the greatest engraver after Dûrer, and a genius akin to Old testament prophets...English people produced many giants, Blake is not the shortest of those...

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Your kind words really moved me in my isolated Christmast...

I wish you the best with my prayer and heart....

And to you, @mahgister I think that is a very astute comment you made ... and I thank you for your wisdom and insight.

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If someone dont see miracles and moving mysteries in sound and music like in light and colors , he is blind and deaf, and know nothing about sciences...

Science is the altar of living experience...

Not a chain of dogmas based on conditioning of the mind set , a dead end, which is way worst than children faith which is a golden beginning ....

My greatest discovery here for the last 2 years was acoustic and psycho acoustic experience...This changed my life as a music lover...Any acoustic treatise is way more than a cooking book recipe  it is an invitation through experiments to experience  miraculous transformation of ourselves  through our own hearing experiments...

 

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I apologize if i misread you...femoore12

If science is the altar of living experiences...

Spiritual life is the material itself composing this altar...

Science without a spiritual life go nowhere save to death....

Science has nothing to do with robot programming, which is only a technology nothing more...

Science is an ethical mind-set toward understanding the phenomena without perturbating them TOO MUCH and especially without killing them ...

The only people who would contradict that are the monstruous corporations enslaving science in the name of power and greed...

Blake called the technology of the british industrial age satanic, not because he was against technology or science, but because of the way the power to be used sciences and technology to enslave mankind... It is not conspiracy it is PLAIN history...

The history only repeat today in a monstruous way way more hoorible than in Blake Times ...

I am optimist though because i see an incoming awakening around the world...

 

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