decided that I needed to read Thus Spake Zarathustra, which I haven't read, but have been too busy to go to the library. I haven't commented on anything ...
have been lurking on this thread for some time as well, but I have read so much Nietzsche that I almost regard him as an old friend. My own favorite is ...
t seems to me that N. never celebrated war and violence. He certainly despised Prussian militarism and German chauvinism in his time. But his notion of Cesare ...
f any kind, I am will to power, even in the softest, saddest and<br> quietest moments. It frees me from the suffocating effect of the<br> culture which presses...
don't want to underplay the suffering of the Kosovans which is appalling and getting worse. Now we are in so far I suppose ground troops will be necessary, ...
like what you say about art and dissidence. I would add Delacroix' Sack of Constantinople to your list of paintings that surpass 'Guernica' in making the same...
etter, I would imagine." Certainly the end of American power, when it comes, will only be the beginning of another culture's hegemony, the rule of another...
hy do messages take so long to appear in this club, then sometimes disappear again? I think Yahoo should sort it out. Some of their clubs seem much faster in...
ou write well. I don't know where you live or how old you are. Your anti-Americanism is interesting. 'Spectacle driven', suggests to me the situatonists of...
've contacted Yahoo about the posting problem and disappearing messages...hopefully I'll get some sort of answer from them re it (but given Yahoo's track...
irst off, I tend agree with JSM. As any student of history knows, nature abhores a power vacuum. Could there be a more benign "imperialist" power than the US?...
ather than look to Nietzsche for ideas about the current turmoil in the bowels of Europe, we should study the ideas of more appropriate philosopher like ...
s a phrase I recall from a poem. It's hard to think what to write unless we can see what others have recently written. I hope Yahoo manage to pull their ...
s the kind of phrase that gives Nietzscheanism a bad name. And I'm not quite sure what you mean by your distinction between students and followers. Is it the...
rinciples of democracy in latin America? Only when you thought they were ready for it. You have to admit you have in the past supported a number of sometimes...
e South America, you can't blame Americans for acting in their self-interest at times. Surely the Brit's could never be accused of doing otherwise. And you can...
he US is the most diverse country on the planet. We rarely agree on anything. Is there any uniformity between Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream, Yahoo!, General ...
uch as the British opium trade, the mercantilistic laws against Indians spinning their own cotton or all that flap over several million sheep and their ...
e South American dictators, I'm not really criticising, just saying it's not all freedom and democracy. Nor am I attacking the pax Americana or the cold war. ...
oddess of Victory, of course. I don't mean to be offensive about it, it's<br> just my gross ignorance. <br> As for the opium wars, what is their<br> mirror ...
erhaps it is only to an American that America seems the most diverse country on the planet. At least since de Tocqueville it has seemed to outisders to have a...
ow! you have a bazillion poems on your site.<br>There unfortunately does not seem to be a horsepower or wattage rating for any of them, so I could not findthe ...
think it must be the nikkei that confused me. Why Disney is more serious than Macdonalds or Nike, is that it has succeeded in degrading so many children's...
f we had not approved of the arts and invented this kind of cult of the untrue, the insight into universal untruth and mendaciousness now provided to us by ...
