It's not a noble world, so contemporary realist novels become nearly impossible to write.
They are firmly grounded in the suburban middle class, whose idea of ambition is ascending to rank of assistant regional manager. This is the middlebrow world of Ayn Rand, the Nietzsche of used car dealers.
On the other hand, this is about all the ambition that peaceful merchant societies permit, unless you lose your mind and try to turn an architect into a terrorist (looking at you, Ayn Rand.)
Basically, if contemporary (1st world) society is completely infertile as a ground for Nietzschean drama, does that mean that drama has to be set in the past? Future?
I think fantasy lacks the psychological seriousness of events that take place on a recognisable Earth. Yet the Earth we know is one where all domination is indirect, buffered by money, essentially making a 3rd world dictator and Mark Zukerberg into equals. The human element of domination - indeed of society - is diminishing daily. What is power when a rich man and a poor man eat at a franchise restaurant using a bank card, then return to hotels in different price brackets to work on their laptops, which are also in different price brackets?
Levi Myers
>I'm 15 and life SUCKS
Tyler Johnson
>How is a Nietzschean supposed to be a writer? Endless ranting in an aphoristic style
Mason Davis
twitter is the perfect medium for the contemporary nietzschean
Brody Thomas
europa and the bull...
as ol uncle mao used to say "all power comes from the barrel of a gun!"
zuckerberg's power is given to him by others the dictator rules by control of his national deep state
fred only ever offered useful advice but never hard and fast solutions to artistic endeavours
Anthony Jones
>Middle Ages were Dionysian kek what the fuck spengler-tier morphology
Anthony Reed
he gave some actual writing tips to lou salome
1. Of prime necessity is life: a style should live. 2. Style should be suited to the specific person with whom you wish to communicate. (The law of mutual relation.) 3. First, one must determine precisely “what-and-what do I wish to say and present,” before you may write. Writing must be mimicry. 4. Since the writer lacks many of the speaker’s means, he must in general have for his model a very expressive kind of presentation of necessity, the written copy will appear much paler. 5. The richness of life reveals itself through a richness of gestures. One must learn to feel everything — the length and retarding of sentences, interpunctuations, the choice of words, the pausing, the sequence of arguments — like gestures. 6. Be careful with periods! Only those people who also have long duration of breath while speaking are entitled to periods. With most people, the period is a matter of affectation. 7. Style ought to prove that one believes in an idea; not only that one thinks it but also feels it. 8. The more abstract a truth which one wishes to teach, the more one must first entice the senses. 9. Strategy on the part of the good writer of prose consists of choosing his means for stepping close to poetry but never stepping into it. 10. It is not good manners or clever to deprive one’s reader of the most obvious objections. It is very good manners and very clever to leave it to one’s reader alone to pronounce the ultimate quintessence of our wisdom.
another grammar rule he took from schopenhauer: it should still make sense in latin translation
overall he wanted to transcend romantic creator-artwork dichotomy. nietzschean artist is someone who makes his whole life an art, doesnt shy away from political activism and maybe there is some kind of book or novel as byproduct... if you try to think without taboos, like an alien, hitler was a nietzschean artist.
Christopher Powell
I suppose you are one of those people who really, really dislikes reddit atheists, on account of being similar to them and actually having them on your mind.
I don't know, man. Have you ever read Villon? All the perverse legends of the saints? There was a perverted, chaste form of "Dionysianism" in there somewhere.
Hilariously true. But I don't know if Twitter will exist in twenty years.
Interesting.
I suppose my overall problem is that having marinated in Nietzsche's ideas for something like a decade, I feel numb towards the standard morals and aspirations of novelistic protagonists.
I have an inclination towards ideas that outrage people who are not and have never been and hate reddit atheists, and also that outrage reddit atheists. I suppose the internet has spoiled me in that regard - I feel very little in the way of shame or inhibition in my writing. I'm no longer worried about editors or publishers, because I intend to publish my works as ebooks. Reviews in print media mean nothing to me.
Others must feel the same way. There's a crack in the old dam, but I'm not sure what will come out.
David Taylor
>overall he wanted to transcend romantic creator-artwork dichotomy. nietzschean artist is someone who makes his whole life an art, doesnt shy away from political activism and maybe there is some kind of book or novel as byproduct... if you try to think without taboos, like an alien, hitler was a nietzschean artist.
This is actually the heart of the matter, now that I think about it. The spirit of his philosophy is about finding the way to power and health and strength, even at the expense of others. But a writer is in an odd, voyeuristic relationship with the world. Do I depict what happens? What I would like to see happen? Nobody wants to read a writer who just gives his protagonist everything that he himself wants, and if I didn't like seeing my characters suffer so much, I think I would be in danger of falling into that temptation. The way leads away from the desk, in the end.
Gabriel Butler
Imagine being a fucking non STEM graduate, and having your entire 'career' being fitting ideas you learned from old books like "Apollonian" arbitrarily into other ones and writing pointless theses about how
Like you point at something and go "this reminds me of ancient greek thing" and all your gay friends clap because they recognise the term too and it makes them feel like theyre doing something intellectual
