We’re deep-diving into Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and talking about justice, revenge, power, virtue, and virtue signalling, taking examples from the current year.
Difficult discussion – and only part one of what I hope to be a long Nietzsche-focused series – but don’t get it twisted. There’s stuff that sounds controversial, and Nietzsche has long been taken out of context, but there’s truth and a sense of good at the core of his philosophy.
I recommend this edition of the book:
Listen to Hardcore Literature: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Pt.1 Nietzsche’s Cave of Tarantulas
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Timestamps:
- 05:45: “Preachers of equality are dealers in hidden revenge.”
- 08:00: Virtue signalling and social justice warriors
- 10:45: Coronavirus crisis and my personal virtue signalling experience
- 13:17: The riots in America, and committing injustice in searching for justice
- 14:35: Justice defined as revenge
- 14:50: Dave Chappelle, Kevin Hart, digging up old tweets, and “open hunting season”
- 16:55: Plato, racism, and police brutality
- 18:30: If you want the power you shouldn’t have the power, because you’ll become oppressor
- 19:35: “Men are not equal, and they should not become so either.”
- 20:15: Hypothetical train-track scenario
- 22:01: “Let us also be enemies, my friends. Let us divinely strive against one another.”
- 22:50: “Your bad love of yourself makes solitude a prison.”
Also mentioned:
- Aristotle (podcasts here and here)
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- The Gulag Archipelago
- The Stanford Prison Experiment
- Plato’s Republic
- Dave Chappelle’s Sticks & Stones (review)