I read some random Nietzsche tonight, "The Problem of Socrates." Twas interesting enough. I learned some stuff about the early Greeks that I didn't know. They apparently, at least in the context of Nietzsche rhetoric, prized beauty as the most important achievement above all else, which made them throw rationality out the window. Or perhaps rationality hadn't been invented yet, which could've also been the case; my lack of history reaks this writing with inconsistencies, I know, but deal with it. Anyways, they're love of beauty made them think that anyone who did not possess beauty, ie anyone who looked like shit, didn't have anything credible to say.
Socrates somehow changed that notion -- he was ugly as fuck according to Nietzsche, by the way -- by forcing logic and reason onto a society like a tyrant. Or was it the actual logic and reason that was the tyrant while Socrates was just the bearer and user of it? I don't know. Socrates apparently fascinated the people he spoke with by challenging them with logic and reason, which sort of started a revolution of the mind that got rid of a ton of instinct that human beings once had and replaced it with something that was interesting, but might've made us worse off. I'm done speaking about this.
I don't know what else to type about. I read some of the Zarathustra thingy, too, but it ended up being way to preachy to be exciting. But wait a minute, aren't all of Nietzsche's writings preachy. I don't care because I'm tired, but it's a good thing to bring up when I end up reading this post some time in the future.
Who knows what I'll think of it then. Probably something along the lines of, "Hahaha, I was such and idiot back then; what the hell was I thinking?" The future holds many possibilities and the past can be used as a map to the future. Hey, that's a fun metaphor, the past being a map of the future; I don't know if it's really logically feasible, but the beauty of metaphors is that they don't have to be logically feasible to sound logically feasible. Sometimes they are logically feasible (ignore that sentence as I am too lazy to delete it).
Goodbye (I know, abrupt as usual).
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