How is it possible that Nietzsche is quite possibly the most influential philosopher in modern life while also almost...

because the essence of his philosophy is in fact edgy egoism rooted in personal insecurity and daddy issues

Epic

correct

Not really. You have to read him. Besides you wouldn't get it anyways. A lot has to do with the recurrence, which no one could admit to.

that's a minor theme and you know it
stop trying to systematize Nietzsche's thought
"The will to a system is a lack of integrity."

Where should I start?
>which no one could admit to
Why not?

Nietzsche's philosophy is not systematic, therefore it can't really be summarized.
You could say that Noetzsche was the first contemporary-like thinker,min the sense that he predicted the crisis of values that came suddenly after his death.

lol even though Nietzsche himself admits it's the main idea of Zarathustra, which he even professed is his best book?

Because it's a delicate matter that requires confidence in one's self. Start with any of his major works I guess.

Dunning-Kruger effect.

stop imposing Ecce Homo on the rest of the oeuvre, Nietzsche is operating on levels of irony there we never thought possible

>motifs
>systematic

Um, not really. Take his stance on death, that one must "die at the right time". What would be the point of such a stance if there were no eternal considerations? Etc. etc. Also you clearly haven't read The Will to Power.

Because most peoples writing, thinking and opionions are shit and inconsequential and will be so forever because everything always returns. I wrote this an infinite number of times and yet most cannot understand it, let alone will it to be true.

the Will to Power isn't a book, it's a Frankenstein's monster composed from his reject pile

Not even Nietzsche wanted you to read Will to Power. Stop conflating Nietzsche's entire ouvre to his most despised and apocryphal pseudo-book.

Doesn't that make him a mystic? How did he avoid being disregarded as that? It would requiere to have a really sharp mind I guess. I'm reading Zarathustra at the moment, everyone says it is not a good starting point and I think they are right.

upvoted :^)

So clever!

Leave mentally ill and sexually repressed continental cuckolds to me.

How is it minor? According to Nietzsche and Veeky Forums's current favorite interpretation of him you can't affirm life and move past nihilism without accepting suffering and thusly without also accepting the eternal recurrence

Reminder that Russell died without knowing what Nietzsche's message was all about.
>muh Napoleon

literally raskolnikov-tier understanding

Because people:

1) Read snippets of him, rather than the whole body of his work. Lots of his quotes are put into meme form (wallpapers/etc) and make him sound like much more of a "peace and love" egalitarian free-thinker than he actually was.

2) Fail to read him chronologically. One of his main criticisms of Schopenhauer's philosophy, for example, is that it is the philosophy of a 20-something man. The "plebby" interpretations of Nietzsche are invariably derived from his early work. Few people meaningfully acquaint themselves with his later work.

Nietzsche, by his own admission, was a "radical aristocrat." Late Nietzsche is basically /pol/, but intelligent and bereft of anti-semitism. Like most 19th century thinkers, he had a little racism - but far less than was the norm, and of a very different kind. Racialism would probably be closer to the truth. He believed that the cream of the European crop/races should interbreed, and with Jews as well.

Give me the quick rundown on Wagner

not a very nice person but a masterful composer

>Late Nietzsche is basically /pol/, but intelligent and bereft of anti-semitism
not really
/pol/ is almost anti-nietzsche, psychologically

a few edgy opinions doesn't matter in the long run

Hmmm I dont know if I should belive in this post.

Nietzsche said a lot of different things, so it's easy to get a confused image of what the whole thing looks like if you've only read small parts of it.

But I think in this case, Nietzsche does a lot of "everybody is missing the real shit because they have cultural preconceptions inherited from the past". This idea is ripe for a political person to run with in a different direction from what Nietzsche intended.

Nietzsche had nothing to do with /pol/ which is a pit of resentment and the same slave morality they rebuke, but inverted.

He was an anti-egalitarian but his aristocrat isn't just some blue blood wearing a powdered wig, it's someone who seriously takes to the task of ruling, someone who doesn't have to justify himself, doesn't believe that the right to govern originates with the will of the flock.

And yet the aristocrat, in managing the herd, becomes a part of this system. The master morality is more virile and healthier than the slave morality to be sure, but the master morality ultimately begets slave morality. The strong decimate one another and the weak come together to overcome the survivor. A cycle that slowly spirals down to the last man.

The truly valuable man, to Nietzsche, is the one with the strength to break out of this system and stand solitary, someone capable of climbing the peaks and getting out of the swampy air that clings to society at large.

I always, ALWAYS click on threads with this girl as the OP pic.