Thread by @oldbooksguy

BAP & Nietzsche 🧵

This is Nietzsche's birthday week

BAP loves Nietzsche and once tweeted: "There isn't any competition spiritually to Nietzsche mission"

Many interesting Nietzschean ideas from Bronze Age Mindset (and BAP's lost tweets)👇

Some say Nietzsche is compatible with socialism

But BAP notes Nietzsche called socialism a "a tyranny of the least and the dumbest."

Nietzsche wanted real-life experiments that show how in a "socialist society life negates life, cuts off its own roots."

BAP writes that according to Nietzsche "you should distrust any thoughts you’ve had indoors."

The location matters

Even most contemporary cities with their noise, heartless architecture, and petty ambitions are hostile to "real thoughts."

BAP writes there are "some nice words on friendship in Nietzsche in Zarathustra."

Here's a line from Zarathustra:

"If one wants a friend, then one must also want to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be able to be an enemy."

Zarathustra asks: "Are you pure air and solitude and bread and medicine to your friend?"

This is a friendship that is refreshing as pure air

Relaxing as solitude

Almost mundane like bread

And yet timely like medicine.

BAP notes how Nietzsche was aware of "stateless international finance" 150 years ago

Nietzsche described a "money aristocracy" that uses "state and society as an apparatus for their own enrichment"

Nietzsche hated socialism but didn't put the free markets on a pedestal either

Nietzsche said, "Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave."

BAP hates working too.

He writes "leisure is the source of all great things."

One must be free from life's tedious demands for "all high science, all beautiful living, all adventures."

Quoting Nietzsche, BAP writes the Roman aristocracy had a motto "otium et bellum, leisure and war."

Both are missing from the modern world.

We are incessantly busy with a thousand minor things, and yet not one of them presents the challenge or excitement of war.

Some interpret Nietzsche's phrase Beyond Good And Evil to mean there's "no possibility to evaluate men or events."

But BAP writes the phrase rather means this:

Different standards apply to ordinary men and great men who are ready to make "a great gamble for great gains."

The lower classes quickly changed personas in precarious settings to survive - this may be the *origin* of the actor

But some upper class professions - diplomacy - also spur the development of acting.

To act is to simulate a different reality - this is also the basis for art.

Lost BAP twet on Nietzsche

Twets referenced in this thread

If you enjoy this thread

Check out my summary of Ep 27 of Caribbean Rhythms

A special ep on Nietzsche

Topics covered:

- Difference between Male and female genius
- Art vs architecture
- And moar

memod.com/jashdholani/th…

In another piece

I share some interesting ideas from The Gay Science

- Common vs Noble
- How philosophy emerges from the body
- How utilitarians misunderstand pain and pleasure

memod.com/jashdholani/in…

Shoutout to @J0HNSMITHx and his Chadnet archive of lost BAP tweets!

The searchable function helped me find the Nietzsche tweets

chadnet.org/bap

Tomorrow I will post more Nietzsche threads

As it's his birthday tomorrow

Perhaps one on Ecce Homo, recommended by BAP!

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New - and much bigger - Nietzsche thread is up!

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