'm particularly interested in the subject of Nietzsche and Music. In the Classic European tradition of music, which N. was so passionately interested in, the ...
think a lot of what Nietzsche says about Wagner and the Wagner cult has to be applicable to rock music. All sorts of music are there to be enjoyed, but to...
he Nation, the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers are all great for keeping up with what is going on. I thought that was a terrific article, and I hope ...
think actually, it's the combination of dress, drink, and ignorance that I abhore so. I don't expect anyone to have expert knowledge of the culture they're ...
've never heard of Gattica, could you summarise the plot? <br>Perhaps someone should stick up for death. 100 years ago premature death was far more visible...
t's a movie set in the future, where DNA has divided the 'desirables' from the 'undesirables'. The main character, an 'undesirable' due to a weak heart and bad...
would say they misunderstand Nietzsche, who most certainly was not a nationalist by any stretch of the imagination. Those who believe there to be a connection...
s you describe it the film is a parable about eugenics, not genetic engineering. 'Undesirable genes' could be modified to fit some societal model of ...
nfortunately the accusation is not so easily disposed of. All sorts of people make it who one might think would know better, Thomas Mann and Derrida come to...
was offering "Gattica" more as an example of what a society obsessed with DNA perfection might come to....do you see eugenics and genetic engineering as two ...
ugenics is a slow method of changing the species. It is like breeding dogs or racehorses. With genetic engineering, your Gattica undesirable would not need to...
any of these issues are perceived differently here. Most people believe in our National Health Service, and in state provision for the old. The way things work...
ell, I don't think the govt. is sanctimonious to recommend that people not smoke. Smoking does shorten life, and perhaps saves the govt from spending more on ...
re you saying that it's worrysome (re freedom) to object to having to pay for other's bad choices? I think that sometimes in this country people get carried...
agree ,"Beyond good and evil" is another way to explain to ideas of "Thus Spake Zarathustra" ,it's more critical and discursive. But i think that the ideas of ...
s for arms, I don't see denial of the right to bear arms as as a significant restriction on freedom, leastways here I don't, I can't speak for the US. Nor can...
here are a lot of interesting issues, but what I was originally talking about was not the utilitarian value of street violence or war, but whether in promoting...
erhaps the criminal classes do contribute to society. Doesn't their dangerous ideal of life contribute quite a lot to the vicarious imagination, via the ...
ut it would be nice if somehow people were held more personally responsible for their decisions and actions than they currently are. I don't know about the UK,...
on't work, and will only give a rebellious cachet to smoking. If people can grow all the tobacco they want, roll their own, brew their own, etc. with no taxes...
ut it was good for you in his days...<br>I can imagine him with a big calabash pipe, puffing away like Sherlock Holmes...<br><br>But I also can imagine him ...
o, I do not think everyone is equal. Some people are 'better' than others: more intelligent, more skilled, contribute more to society, etc. Nietzsche, judging...
angland 's Piers Plowman says those who do not work do not deserve wheaten bread, but we should give them barley bread instead. Traditionally in England poor...
