they let know God shit I'm such a mother

very much he's not no God started dead

who said that

nitch he's a 19th century philosopher

from Germany

even if God is dead you're still gonna

kiss his ass Hey okay it's Nietzsche not

niche but that doesn't change the fact

that he's one of the most referenced

philosophers in pop culture gave a

soulmate I had plenty named Shakespeare

Nietzsche she was a chauvinist pig was

in love with his sister he would learn

to fly one day was first learn to stand

and walk that isn't that mine that is

Nietzsche's in which book did Nietzsche

claim that almost all higher culture is

based on the truth yond good and evil

blessed are the forgetful for they get

the better even of their blunders

that's Nietzsche Beyond Good and Evil we

all pretty much know his deal right he's

the 19th century German walrus who

believed that everything is meaningless

so you should just overpower everybody

else and get what you want and that

makes you that thing called in gruberman

you'll never get bored with winning we

never get bored and also Jews are bad

and time goes in a circle time as a flat

circle we said Nietzsche shut the fuck

up right that's Nietzsche right no it's

actually not you can talk you just

choose not to

said Nietzsche you don't speak because

of Friedrich Nietzsche turns out

Nietzsche is about as misunderstood as

the teenage boys who like him

the real Nietzsche was as subtle in his

philosophy as he was iconoclastic yes he

believed that moral laws like thou shalt

not kill shouldn't come from an

objective Authority like God or reason

but that doesn't make him a nihilist

or even a pessimist he believed that

when we get rid of the idea of objective

morality we can live in a more

fulfilling way where we're not commanded

to be selfless but have no need to be

selfish as Nietzsche says the

consequences of the collapse of moral

truths are the opposite of what one

might expect

not at all sad and gloomy but much more

like a new and barely describable type

of light happiness relief amusement

encouragement dawn so how did that

become this what would you like Jaguar

the usual hundreds of grandchildren

utter domination of known space and the

pleasure of hearing that all my enemies

have died in terrible highly improbable

accidents that cannot be connected to me

after Nietzsche died his sister

inherited his estate edited his work and

published the will to power promoting an

early version of the misinterpreted

might makes right Nietzsche the sister's

husband was a famous anti-semite and he

managed to sneak in some of his views

despite the fact that during his

lifetime Nietzsche wrote his sister and

her husband cease and desist letters in

which Nietzsche called anti-semites

aborted fetuses so Nietzsche was

definitively anti anti-semitic but all

that didn't matter when the Nazis

co-opted some of Nietzsche's writing

paraphrasing him and taking him out of

context and so by the time Nietzsche

made his way into American pop culture

we were predisposed to getting wrong but

obviously agree with Nietzsche in his

theory of the Superman yes I do

so did Hitler which is why finally this

ubermensch at Slate decided to set the

record straight because he likes the

real Nietzsche so much that he dressed

up as him for Halloween in ninth grade

yeah but that's me

the most common thing people get wrong

about Nietzsche

master versus slave concept first of all

this quote on you might use may not let

them use you you must be a master not a

slave all right no matter how we

idealize it is nothing more nor less an

exploitation

that's not Nietzsche that's HL Mencken

talking about Nietzsche and getting him

wrong it's true master and slave are

terms that Nietzsche uses they come from

his book on the genealogy of morals and

if somebody tells you Nietzsche thinks

you should be a master and not a slave

it's because they read essay 1 in that

book but not essay 2 or 3 or the preface

in essay 1 Nietzsche tells us a story

about how our judeo-christian ethics

came into being you know the meek shall

inherit the earth self-sacrifice is good

and greed and pride are evil that kind

of stuff in short a long time ago

society had roughly two types of people

the nobles or masters who were powerful

had land and money and lived a well-fed

healthy life and the peasants were

slaves on whose subjugation the masters

happy lives depended masters liked the

lives they lived and looked down on the

lives of the slaves they wanted to

express this so they used words like

good to refer to themselves

Skoda beta k and bad to refer to the

weak and wretched slaves nietzsche

called this good versus bad distinction

master morality then a revolution Hamlet

the slaves realized they had the power

to put themselves on top by inverting

ethical language they started calling

their proud and wealthy masters evil and

calling themselves good they praised

themselves for their self-sacrifice

their frailty their poverty other

worldly virtues the kind that will only

be rewarded in an afterlife or a truer

reality beyond our own this kind of

slave morality is the direct ancestor of

the ethical language we use today just

because some moistened bent I'd love the

Scimitar at me they put me away shut up

will you

oh now we see the violence inheritance

system Nietzsche believed that this

slave morality is harmful and unhealthy

because it focuses on transcending our

earthly selves which shifts our focus

away from experiencing this life as a

full reality but contrary to the quote

from babyface you may not be a mule

Nietzsche did not believe that we should

return to master morality Nietzsche

believed that we can use the

sophisticated introspection that we have

learned from slave morality to advance

beyond both types of morality to advance

beyond moral systems altogether in fact

the main point of Nietzsche's story is

to show that it's possible to come up

with an account of our ethics that

doesn't necessarily come from God or

some kind of objective standard since

Earth achill values are ultimately human

and historically determined Nietzsche

calls for a revaluation of all values

this brings us to our next

misinterpretation of Nietzsche depressed

teenage Annihilus Nietzsche if values

are inherently value us than isn't there

no meaning to life and no reason to be

nice to anyone

not exactly Nietzsche only claims that

values don't have any objective value he

wants us to drop our fixed dogmatic

moral systems that tell us to follow the

same moral laws all the time because

they correspond with an eternal truth

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the beauty of Nietzsche's philosophy is

that you don't need an eternal truth to

have a meaningful life in fact without

objective morality were free to make our

own moral systems ethics becomes a

joyful creative act like art Nietzsche

called somebody who does this in

ubermensch somebody who has transcended

above UBA humanity so the pop-culture

archetype who plays by his own rules and

doesn't answer to lowly ideas of good or

bad could in theory be an urban edge but

he must be careful not to live life

totally ruled by any of the new systems

that he creates

remember we said we've always said you

and I the moral concepts of good and

evil and and right and wrong don't hold

for the intellectually superior and if

he's really just using this philosophy

to justify actions that are merely

self-serving then he's fallen into the

trap of being ruled by just another

ethical system egotism but you've given

my words of meaning and I never dreamed

of and you've tried to twist them into a

cold logical excuse for your ugly murder

and as far as Nietzsche is concerned

that's not true freedom in fact

Nietzsche believed that true freedom

requires deep introspection and

psychological experimentation we need to

test out ways of living to see what

works for us and he suggested from his

own experimentation that being

egotistical and mean-spirited doesn't

really work to make us happier or

healthier I believe

stranger oh and one more thing you'll do

this again time is a flat circle

that's a garbled version of Nietzsche's

theory of eternal return which doesn't

exactly state the time actually goes in

a loop but rather that we should live

our life as if we would have to live our

life the exact same way over and over

again forever so in that sense time goes

in a loop in the sense that it's

inspiring to live as if it did eternal

return is one of the new artful moral

systems that Nietzsche created for

himself but don't get trapped into

thinking at some kind of objective truth

or else