Nietzsche's Warning: The Decline of Humanity

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    In this video we peel back the layers of Nietzsche's theory of decadence to reveal the chilling truth behind the unraveling of civilizations. Join us as we delve into Nietzsche's profound insights on the decline of cultures, exploring the hidden forces driving humanity towards self-destruction. Brace yourself for a thought-provoking journey into the heart of Nietzsche's psychology of decadence.
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    2. Origins of the Soul: 01:32
    3. Decadence: 07:51
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    5. Creative Self-Destruction: 26:12
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  • @faza553
    @faza553 Месяц назад +217

    'Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.' - G.K. Chesterton

    • @Jay-kk3dv
      @Jay-kk3dv Месяц назад

      Transwomen are women

    • @ReaverSenpai
      @ReaverSenpai Месяц назад +15

      Not sure if it's forgetting or more so arrogance that those things are no longer needed honestly.

    • @antun88
      @antun88 Месяц назад +19

      ...and the obvious thing eveyone is forgetting in this case is christianity. More than a millenium of christian tradition cannot just be replaced. It lays at the foundation of culture, moral values, state organization, hierarchy etc.

    • @faza553
      @faza553 Месяц назад +1

      @@ReaverSenpai Political malfeasance creating conditions to perpetuate the state of
      Parable of Nightmares?
      "Since it was terror and disturbance and instability and doubt and division, many illusions were at work among them, and vain ignorance, like they were deep in sleep and found themselves in nightmares. Either they’re running somewhere, or unable to run away from someone; or they’re fighting, or being beaten; or they’ve fallen from heights, or fly through the air without wings. Sometimes, too, it’s like someone is killing them, even though no one’s chasing them; or they themselves are killing those around them, covered in their blood."

    • @benjones4866
      @benjones4866 Месяц назад +11

      Like we no longer know what the difference between a Man and a Woman is. 1:00

  • @notaspacemonkey
    @notaspacemonkey Месяц назад +34

    He is describing entropy in the human realm

  • @jamesofallthings3684
    @jamesofallthings3684 Месяц назад +103

    We're approaching the crescendo. I've had enough of this apathetic technological dystopia. Hopefully I can make it to see what's going to emerge on the other side.

    • @bro4539
      @bro4539 Месяц назад +15

      Unless you're going to live for at least a few centuries I wouldn't hold out much hope. I get the feeling most of us will die of old age before anything really interesting happens.

    • @MichaelThomasFrazier
      @MichaelThomasFrazier Месяц назад +7

      @@bro4539the us will be wiped out

    • @SgtJackRose
      @SgtJackRose Месяц назад +9

      I want to built a hut in the woods.

    • @ajeetalbert91
      @ajeetalbert91 Месяц назад +4

      If I have the ability the choose my brothers or atleast some good friends for life, I will choose these 3 men in this comment.

    • @-Swamp_Donkey-
      @-Swamp_Donkey- 26 дней назад

      People seem to be waking up to what Jews have been up to for the last 100 years, so that’s a plus.

  • @albertmcmullen2669
    @albertmcmullen2669 Месяц назад +26

    A stupendous intellect, a psychological genius in his attempt to explain modern man to himself.

  • @ronalddesiderio7625
    @ronalddesiderio7625 17 дней назад +6

    Addiction is a daily struggle of the mind and emotions

  • @JeffMTX
    @JeffMTX 17 дней назад +6

    Good change only comes through suffering of some kind. Prosperity eventually leads to suffering. It’s a cycle!

  • @user-ho4nw5sf3w
    @user-ho4nw5sf3w 25 дней назад +17

    I
    It all started with the first tree we chopped down. And that was the Tree Of Knowledge.

    • @imuppot2289
      @imuppot2289 17 дней назад +2

      No it was the “Tree of Life”, the “Tree of Knowledge” leads to ignorance knowing everything about nothing rather than wisdom knowing nothing about everything.

    • @user-ho4nw5sf3w
      @user-ho4nw5sf3w 17 дней назад +1

      @@imuppot2289 There is something suspicious about trees and humans. Could it be, that we all at one time lived in them?

    • @francesoakford241
      @francesoakford241 12 дней назад

      ​@@user-ho4nw5sf3w We are all baby Oaks. 🙏🆘❤️

  • @3Kiwiana
    @3Kiwiana Месяц назад +9

    Nietzsche was one super intelligent s.o.b.

    • @imuppot2289
      @imuppot2289 17 дней назад +2

      No he wasn’t he was simply ignorant of societal norms and could therefore see clearly. We all have this ability, we simply have to let go of “comfort”.

  • @_7.8.6
    @_7.8.6 Месяц назад +13

    He was surgical in describing the human condition

  • @corb5654
    @corb5654 Месяц назад +12

    We are so f....d

    • @TrevorHamberger
      @TrevorHamberger 7 дней назад +2

      I believe the opposite. I believe that we are set up to do exactly what we're supposed to do. We are f ed in regards to a society that resembles a consumer society like the one we live in now. You're here because you hate the consumer model so you should want to see it go.

    • @johnmcmahon5225
      @johnmcmahon5225 6 дней назад +1

      Everyone's story ends the same way, so yes.

    • @maguilla
      @maguilla 2 дня назад

      Only F if you allowed yourself to be! Watch around yes is decaying incurable but you stay away from

  • @tarugardiner4287
    @tarugardiner4287 Месяц назад +16

    Life the soul is quite simple , it's the environmental, social dynamics and eduction that can kill ones life force and soul , which enivitably derives to " Degradation "

  • @Primetiime32
    @Primetiime32 Месяц назад +22

    Thanks for this video . Decadence makes it difficult for a culture to change for the better good .

  • @jumo5893
    @jumo5893 Месяц назад +11

    Very well done. Thank you for the amazing content

  • @goodtothinkwith
    @goodtothinkwith 19 дней назад +2

    Outstanding! Really excellent stuff.. lots of good fodder for thought here 🧐😄

  • @Kian-xs5te
    @Kian-xs5te Месяц назад +6

    Thanks for your fantastic videos

  • @carenkurdjinian5413
    @carenkurdjinian5413 Месяц назад +4

    Very Interesting and Productive -To Know …….🌞

  • @mongolloyd
    @mongolloyd Месяц назад +13

    Super interesting and well spoken. Downloaded. Shared. Subbed. Many thanks from Australia.. keep em coming

  • @TheRealValus
    @TheRealValus 19 дней назад +5

    Nietzsche,
    projecting his mid-life crisis;
    genius is a hell of a drug.

  • @titanomachy2217
    @titanomachy2217 6 дней назад

    Great vid.

  • @muaddib930
    @muaddib930 Месяц назад +13

    I figure it's always been like this... We haven't changed much since 1700; cell phones aint shit.

    • @shaunakmitra963
      @shaunakmitra963 15 дней назад +1

      yup, way too many don't realize that

    • @TheRandomman1999
      @TheRandomman1999 2 дня назад

      "Imagine a world where vital energies are relentlessly drained, where the instincts essential for human guidance and psychic equilibrium are systemically disrupted." Tell me that modern interactive technologies like phones, social media, video games, internet porn don't have this exact effect

  • @binky777
    @binky777 Месяц назад +1

    High standard take. Been wonderig about this for years.

  • @Paulakat517
    @Paulakat517 19 дней назад +4

    Carl Jung treated him and personally considered him "mad." I'm not sure if he was or wasn't but it's interesting.

    • @ronalddesiderio7625
      @ronalddesiderio7625 17 дней назад +1

      Were all Mad 😊

    • @titanomachy2217
      @titanomachy2217 6 дней назад +4

      Didn't he say Nietzche was basically animated by an archetype rather than having the mind of a typical man? Like that he got so caught up with his iconoclastic, almost contrarian ways, he began to embody his radical philosophy and stopped having normal social interactions and whatnot. I thought I remember Jung saying that Nietzche went "mad" due to the level of genius he was containing and trying to communicate in his works.

    • @ggrthemostgodless8713
      @ggrthemostgodless8713 3 дня назад

      Jung was full of sh!t... his word salads and distortions confused most people. Nietzsche was unique and way more depth of thought, in much FEWER words than Jung. Nietzsche is worth the time, Jung makes you waste years of your time.

  • @r-saint
    @r-saint 25 дней назад +3

    If we're talking about decay of civilization, Spengler has much more flashed out theory.

  • @carenkurdjinian5413
    @carenkurdjinian5413 Месяц назад +1

    Thank You very Much ……..🌞

  • @jamesruscheinski8602
    @jamesruscheinski8602 21 день назад +3

    divine unity before government / democracy

  • @erwin643
    @erwin643 7 дней назад

    Thanks!

  • @user-ye1iu7qy6s
    @user-ye1iu7qy6s Месяц назад +3

    Gotta leave when the time is right

  • @ChrisB-xg4ww
    @ChrisB-xg4ww Месяц назад +8

    Suppressing instincts vs. Succumbing to self-destructive tendencies

  • @nicknewaccount7536
    @nicknewaccount7536 Месяц назад +29

    "their most profound desire is that the war they are should come to an end"
    damn bro

    • @SmiteTVnet
      @SmiteTVnet Месяц назад

      This is why self transformation requires self sacrifice

    • @ryad1281
      @ryad1281 Месяц назад +1

      people are not war though

    • @SmiteTVnet
      @SmiteTVnet Месяц назад +3

      @@ryad1281 if you watch the video, it’s referring to how people in a decadent society are usually born of mixed cultures with competing and opposing values. Because of this opposition, their identity becomes a “war” of cultural values according to Nietzche’s ideas

    • @SmiteTVnet
      @SmiteTVnet Месяц назад +3

      This war within oneself is a reason why self-sacrifice is necessary for self-transcendence and rebirth

    • @StanBurns
      @StanBurns Месяц назад

      what are you trying to say ?

  • @AdamRedmann
    @AdamRedmann Месяц назад +15

    The war in “ourselves” is manufactured in some extent by the ideologies impressed upon us at a young age. Christianity makes a person feel bad about themselves.
    “Thou Shalt Not”
    But I think if you flip and we’re to teach that following the Ten Commandment will lead to feeling good about yourself it doesn’t create the same kind of inner turmoil in a person as they go through life learning from their mistakes
    I think when children are taught to feel shame about their sexual urges is where the first inner conflict begins, which is why puberty is when innocence begins to diminish. Then as a person gets closer to adulthood societal expectations put one at war with one self

    • @kubasniak
      @kubasniak Месяц назад

      Christianity ruins so many lives. It only promotes self hatred.

    • @barb2793
      @barb2793 7 дней назад

      You don't know anything about Christianity, which is the only antidote for a decadent world and the only avenue for human dignity, especially for women, who are treated like prostitutes in this post Christian world.

    • @titanomachy2217
      @titanomachy2217 6 дней назад

      And now our post-Christian society shames us from a young age for being white and demonizes thinking for oneself to an unprecedented extent. Even during the Christian Wars of Religion, Europeans still weren't expected to be THIS conformist. You have to agree with every single woke dogma, otherwise you will be cancelled, even when you're a fellow "Progressive" like JK Rowling. It used to be that you just had to not blaspheme or publically insult the royal family of your kingdom, but now people can be arrested for "hate speech" for stating fairly benign and obvious facts.

  • @fizywig
    @fizywig Месяц назад +3

    N. Schop,'s metaphysics are a philosophical result of Kant's turn to transcendental ontology, hence thoroughly " formalistuc" metaphysics of both, using generalist vague terms like "force" " will" as a replacement fir actual philosophical cosmology.

    • @TheMachiavellians
      @TheMachiavellians  Месяц назад +2

      The "transcendental ontology" you are referring to is a development in metaphysics. Truth and being are bound together so you can't speak of the former without commenting on the latter. Hence Schopenhauer's cosmic will which Nietzsche borrows.

    • @Impaled_Onion-thatsmine
      @Impaled_Onion-thatsmine Месяц назад

      ​​@@TheMachiavellians transcendental aesthetic ontology something about just eat between nexus points

  • @James-ll3jb
    @James-ll3jb Месяц назад +13

    Superb. After reading nearly all of Nietzsche in 1876-79 I embarked on a journey of ten years covering 34 states, living in 5, and 8 countries, to try to fully grasp what he meant by "the advent of nihilism" and the more time went on the more fully did I come to appreciate the gravity and prescience of what he meant!
    “What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism!
    Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?
    1. Point of departure: it is an error to consider 'social distress' or 'physiological degeneration' or, worse, corruption, as the cause of nihilism. Ours is the most decent and compassionate age. Distress, whether of the soul, body, or intellect, cannot of itself give birth to nihilism (i.e., the radical repudiation of value, meaning, and desirability). Such distress always permits a variety of interpretations. Rather: it is in one particular interpretation, the Christian-moral one, that nihilism is rooted.
    2. The end of Christianity-at the hands of its own morality (which cannot be replaced), which turns against the Christian God (the sense of truthfulness, developed highly by Christianity, is nauseated by the falseness and mendaciousness of all Christian interpretations of the world and of history; rebound from 'God is truth' to the fanatical faith 'All is false'; a Buddhism of inaction).
    3. Skepticism regarding morality is what is decisive. The end of the moral interpretation of the world, which no longer has any sanction after it has tried to escape into some beyond, leads to nihilism. 'Everything lacks meaning' (the untenability of one interpretation of the world, upon which a tremendous amount of energy has been lavished, awakens the suspicion that all interpretations of the world are false). Buddhistic tendency, a kind of yearning for Nothing. (Indian Buddhism is not the culmination of a thoroughly moralistic development; its nihilism is therefore full of morality that is not overcome: existence as punishment, existence construed as error, error thus as a punishment- is a moral valuation.)
    4. Philosophical attempts to overcome the 'moral God' (Hegel, pantheism).
    Overcoming popular ideals: the sage; the saint; the poet.
    The antagonism of 'true' and 'beautiful' and 'good'."
    ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1888)

    • @TheMachiavellians
      @TheMachiavellians  Месяц назад +5

      Nietzsche's comments on nihilism are highly prescient. I come from a highly religious background and I have found what he has to say about Christianity and nihilism is spot on.

    • @James-ll3jb
      @James-ll3jb Месяц назад +1

      @@TheMachiavellians Me too, although his elucidation of christian psychology and the origin of morality in the need to ounish, in the Genealogy of Morals, I think is a bit over the top.

    • @TheMachiavellians
      @TheMachiavellians  Месяц назад +5

      @@James-ll3jb That part of his philosophy applies to monasticism more than some other forms. Christianity is a very broad term for a variety of practices. Nietzsche's critique of Christianity tries to cover most of them. Many people criticize him for contradicting himself but in reality it is the subject that is a contradiction. I just read a biography of Martin Luther and Nietzsche's comments in the Genealogy seem to apply very well to figures like Luther. The ascetics punished themselves very severely for their impulses. I think there is something deeply pathological about that.

    • @James-ll3jb
      @James-ll3jb Месяц назад

      @@TheMachiavellians Agreed.

  • @wendys390
    @wendys390 8 дней назад +1

    I think Nietsche is full of it, because it’s just not that simple, but I appreciate the video anyway, thank you.

  • @QuantumAwakening0
    @QuantumAwakening0 Месяц назад +1

    It is amazing which keywords Nietzsche used. I believe if he had knowledge from today with Quantum Superposition and Game Theory everything would not sound that dark as it is one possiblity out of many.

  • @elisabethfeeney542
    @elisabethfeeney542 12 часов назад

    Nietzsche gives us all something to think about, as do all great philosophers. He tries to teach us HOW to think, not WHAT to think. The finger pointing to the moon is not the moon

  • @aek12
    @aek12 Месяц назад +8

    It is bound to happen. Prosperity ripens the principle of decay. It is natural and inevitable.

  • @lorishu48103
    @lorishu48103 Месяц назад +4

    This is so good

    • @Raskolnikovsburden
      @Raskolnikovsburden Месяц назад +1

      Agree. 1st video from this channel and I smashed that subscribe

  • @bumblebob5979
    @bumblebob5979 3 дня назад

    The problem is not technology or societal development.
    It is the motive behind every persons actions.

  • @oooodaxteroooo
    @oooodaxteroooo 3 дня назад

    Every high culture is endangered of cultivating head births, even neurosis.
    You create institutions and habits that SEEM logical or "good", while theyre in fact removed from authenticity, but kept alive by the strength of the established system.

  • @RustyShackleford-
    @RustyShackleford- День назад

    Obsession in people and things is the end of civilization

  • @Usedplungerstotheface
    @Usedplungerstotheface Месяц назад +2

    War inside my head

  • @edwardprice140
    @edwardprice140 6 дней назад

    8:14 That is a cool work of art. Artist ?

  • @zkcud2858
    @zkcud2858 5 дней назад

    We are slowly going back to some form of balance

  • @almostazoroastrian6894
    @almostazoroastrian6894 Месяц назад +3

    „Ich lehre euch den Übermenschen. Der Mensch ist Etwas, das überwinden werden soll. Was habt ihr gethan, ihn zu überwinden?“

  • @crosstolerance
    @crosstolerance Месяц назад +1

    I'm afraid no longer do these powerful souls exist in the individual.

  • @user-je5do6jn2f
    @user-je5do6jn2f Месяц назад +1

    Nietzsche, the successor to Schaupenhauer. I love reading both.

  • @kaykay865
    @kaykay865 17 дней назад +1

    The ' logos'

  • @kali11123
    @kali11123 Месяц назад +2

    Where are these philosophers of the future?

    • @johnmcmahon5225
      @johnmcmahon5225 6 дней назад +1

      Almost 12,000 philosophy undergrad degrees are awarded in the USA every year. Hundreds of universities have philosophy departments, including all of the Ivies and top state schools.

  • @umserserum
    @umserserum Месяц назад +12

    I see this as a reason for celebration. Celebration meaning that there's nothing holding us back anymore, there's nothing worth fighting for, struggling for achieving. In other words, we're free.
    But free for what? Free to wander I'd say. I see nomadism as the only authentic and active answer to decadence. Nomadism. To set feet on the road and never stop unless there's something worth stopping for.
    And I'll close my thesis with Achilles' choice: 'Better a brief life, full of action and shine, than a long, but empty life.'

    • @jimb3093
      @jimb3093 Месяц назад +4

      I like that.

    • @benwinter2420
      @benwinter2420 4 дня назад

      I have put the same before , as I feel that travelling is the only noble thing a human is capable of & which a more advanced being in a flying saucer could admire

  • @user-je5do6jn2f
    @user-je5do6jn2f Месяц назад

    Signs point to YES!

  • @Kuldeep-vb8mi
    @Kuldeep-vb8mi Месяц назад

    Read Sri Aurobindo the Ideal of Human Unity: Freedom and Self - Determination,

  • @Rally351
    @Rally351 Месяц назад +1

    I LOOVVE your work and feel you are by more than a little the best Nietzsche scholar on YT-but I have to somewhat disagree with some of the sentiments of this video-
    The conclusion makes it sound like Nietzsche condemned this internal struggle of drives and affects. Yet in his own words “War is the father of all good things”, the metaphor of the bow’s tension-concepts practically lifted from his closest ancestor philosopher, Heraclitus.
    Most importantly, the rest of BGE 200 has the typical Nietzschean twist of stating that it is precisiely in such ages of “mixed races” and cultures that seed greater types like Caesar, Alcibiades and Da Vinci, for whom this integral struggle is “one more charm and incentive of life”, who master, self outwit this “war” inside themselves.
    Two of these figures existed in antiquity and one in its renaissance. Perhaps the idea is that even “stronger ages” are destined for degeneration, and these three merely “gave birth to the dancing star” of secretly decadent epochs. Yet this would feel counter to Nietzsche’s Heraclitean DNA, and to the “Great Health” that thrives on over coming the Great Sickness.
    But would very much (and respectfully) like to hear your thoughts on such.

  • @vivalaleta
    @vivalaleta 20 дней назад +1

    There's a portion of us born without empathy. They view life like a game and seek power positions. Politics and police forces are full of them. However this condition isn't catchy.

    • @UniDeathRaven
      @UniDeathRaven 18 дней назад +2

      Born without empathy or just money corrupted once a neutral human ? That's the real question.

    • @oooodaxteroooo
      @oooodaxteroooo 3 дня назад

      By my experience those are typically sadists and/or narcissists.
      Sadly, psychology is SO politicized that sadistic personality disorder has been removed in dsm-4. This makes us blind for these obviously disturbed characters. I would argue theyre the basis of the modern capitslist economy.
      Look up the diagnostic criteria. Youll have a field day looking at socalled "leaders", politicians and police men.

  • @phillipchavez1321
    @phillipchavez1321 Месяц назад

    17:03

  • @bubbercakes528
    @bubbercakes528 21 день назад

    If we had not gotten rid of our unconscionable drives, would we still be “ human?”From my readings of , I assume I would not like him personally at all.

  • @user-jf3ov6dd3z
    @user-jf3ov6dd3z Месяц назад +3

    Nietzsche had a profound insight!
    Unfortunately, he also found it perplexing, which shoe was for which foot?

  • @ireneuszpyc6684
    @ireneuszpyc6684 6 дней назад +1

    Scott Galloway (marketing professor) jokes that philosophers are useless; I agree

    • @benwinter2420
      @benwinter2420 4 дня назад

      Descartes had a similar opinion of them as in they can have a different opinion on how everything works depending on which side of the bed they got up off of that morning . . I'v never been impressed by any of them , take Nietzsche . . he goes on flights of fancy about Christianity , without a clue it's based on early Mars worship when Mars/Christ closer & closest of the old polar configuration great one eye looming huge in the old north sky . . the devil & holy trinity rolled into one hot mess on this planet of the apes

    • @wyzebull
      @wyzebull 4 дня назад

      He marketed his idea to you and you bought it. He's good!

    • @wyzebull
      @wyzebull 4 дня назад +2

      He marketed his idea to you and you bought it. He's good!

    • @ireneuszpyc6684
      @ireneuszpyc6684 4 дня назад

      @@wyzebull
      Galloway has $200mn investment portfolio

  • @johnsmith-ol9qj
    @johnsmith-ol9qj 22 дня назад +1

    Nietzsche seems to get it until the very end. Humans live life like a parabola not like and ever increasing exponential function. Even that is over simplifying it as every stimulus in your life changes the variables of existence. But for example, he said it was decay when the French aristocracy gave up their powers. This negates the ability of humans to recognize Their own demise which is the true humbling of the soul. A naive scholar would assume that you will can continue forever when it is obvious that is not the case in this mortal form.

  • @jesperandersson889
    @jesperandersson889 11 часов назад

    when is part two of this Nietzsche panacea coming, wow!!!

  • @JonathanParks-xs2jv
    @JonathanParks-xs2jv 3 дня назад

    There are conscious schools on earth whose mission is to preserve esoteric knowledge developed over millennia.
    Civilizations purpose is to create consciousness in humans. Herein lies truth and meaning.
    I know of one such school.
    I hope you find it dear reader

  • @lynnjacobs9885
    @lynnjacobs9885 8 дней назад +1

    If I'm interpreting this correctly, Nietzsche posits that humans' primary driving force is the need for POWER. If so, I very much disagree. Isn't the human need to FEEL GOOD much stronger?

    • @jamesseeker1538
      @jamesseeker1538 7 дней назад +1

      Have you ever felt good when you were powerless?

    • @lynnjacobs9885
      @lynnjacobs9885 7 дней назад

      @@jamesseeker1538 I guess that depends on what is meant by "powerless."
      I've often felt good even though external forces had power over my physical circumstances. Does that count?

    • @titanomachy2217
      @titanomachy2217 6 дней назад

      That's what he's talking about, by "power" he means a feeling of psychological and spiritual well-being, not to merely bully others.

  • @ConanDuke
    @ConanDuke 6 дней назад

    The enlightenment fantasy of the individual. One wonders in Neitsche would have labeled himself a "coward".

  • @mariakatariina8751
    @mariakatariina8751 20 дней назад

    Riesamme, mene, mene, huono tekele, ei versojani.
    Riesamme, menkää, menkää , huonot tekeleet, ei versojamme.
    INRIX

  • @naawakweoseindizhinakaaz2052
    @naawakweoseindizhinakaaz2052 Месяц назад

    This can be coded and dog whistled so easily. You’re doing great service

  • @inmortuae4512
    @inmortuae4512 Месяц назад +2

    I didnt know i learned Nietzsche before learning about him

  • @wesb.8153
    @wesb.8153 8 дней назад +1

    'Nietzche was stupid and abnormal' - Leo Tolstoy

    • @titanomachy2217
      @titanomachy2217 6 дней назад

      I would say Nietzche was very intelligent and creative but also extremely grumpy.

  • @user-kv2rz3mw2b
    @user-kv2rz3mw2b 19 дней назад +1

    Anyone with that mustache is not the full quid.

  • @kingdm8315
    @kingdm8315 Месяц назад

    W

  • @sinOsiris
    @sinOsiris Месяц назад

    re pivot earness and towards the growth of data
    ----
    at stay viable
    not competitiveness
    at stay reliable
    instead of by means of warrant
    as to assist others
    sincerely
    the time has come for 4IR
    ----
    KBE will surpassed all long drawn out fatigue
    indeed care
    and without doubt
    i.e SE
    ----

  • @involuntarilychad4048
    @involuntarilychad4048 6 дней назад

    This is like Jesus and the Devil having their disagreement in the wilderness. But then at the end agreeing about the worship of false idols.

  • @kabash3522
    @kabash3522 Месяц назад +1

    Incredible how close AH was to realizing Nietzsches vision

  • @UniDeathRaven
    @UniDeathRaven 18 дней назад

    The greatest example of dark side of progress is WH40k universe. Especially Eldar race.

    • @titanomachy2217
      @titanomachy2217 6 дней назад

      We have the perfect real-world example all around us right now.

    • @UniDeathRaven
      @UniDeathRaven 6 дней назад

      @@titanomachy2217 Not perfect, we are very early at dark side of progress. Everything just starts if humans dont stop it right now.

  • @Arrian1111
    @Arrian1111 25 дней назад +1

    Didn't Nietzche's following of innate jibes lead him into aquiring syphilis and dying an incoherent wreck in a mental institution? He's a genius, no question about it; however, following his line of thinking is not much better than seeking counsel from the local drunk. I'm sure most of us that are watching this video are enervated beings of much reduced will, who will not be made one iota better as it's probably a symptom of decadence, too.

  • @wbiro
    @wbiro 22 дня назад +1

    What do you get when philosophy lags science and technology?
    BOOM, and not in a good way. Science and technology ends up in the hands of adults with child minds* (currently all adult humans).
    *from the perspective of Broader Survival.

  • @rabb1tjones921
    @rabb1tjones921 24 дня назад +1

    Nietzsche has many opinions that he states as objective facts that are not. In my opinion anyway. My view of reason vs instinct is opposite to his.

  • @thomasb.smithjr.8401
    @thomasb.smithjr.8401 26 дней назад +1

    Gotterdammerung ... is comin' at ya, babe ! Comin' fer yer luv ❤ ! LOL Hand it to those Germans for such hip, multisyllabic words ! 😂😅😊

    • @thomasb.smithjr.8401
      @thomasb.smithjr.8401 26 дней назад +1

      Remember World Party's tune from '86 : You're Gonna Pay Tomorrow ? ' Avarice and greed, will throw you into that burning 🔥 sea' Hmmm ... hmmm - or the songs from the Crash Test Dummies '92. Oh yes ! 😊

  • @tom-kz9pb
    @tom-kz9pb Месяц назад +5

    Nietzsche was a fine one talk about "decadence", being an influence for Nazis Germany as he was, and an influence for aristocrats and fascists, as he continues to be. Fascists can see decadence all around them, except for their own.

    • @TheMachiavellians
      @TheMachiavellians  Месяц назад +8

      Nietzsche never excluded himself when discussing decadence. Every modern human being is decadent, some are just more decadent than others. As for the Nazis lets not forget that antisemitism was the official position of the Catholic church for over a thousand years and is central to Christianity. Even the Protestant Reformation was highly antisemitic. The Nazis needed no help from Nietzsche and distorted his works to justify their desire for revenge like the Christians did with Jewish texts before them.

    • @andrewphilip3308
      @andrewphilip3308 Месяц назад +4

      @@TheMachiavellians Actually, you are wrong. Firstly, you are ignoring the ant-goyism in Judaism which is consistent. A persistent effort has been made to undermine the Church. What is central to Christianity is the love of your enemies and love of your neighbour and of God as exemplified and enacted by the self sacrifice of Chirst in the Passion.

    • @WhiteBaronn
      @WhiteBaronn Месяц назад

      How are fascists decadent? Fash guys like Coreneliu Codreanu are some of the most best example of will to power

    • @Fireneedsair
      @Fireneedsair 23 дня назад

      @@andrewphilip3308 lol. Anti goyism…hahaha please explain genuis

  • @kingjm1000
    @kingjm1000 Месяц назад +1

    Im very annoyed by hearing the word "posit" from every single RUclipsr. The same thing happened with the word "adnauseaum" fuck

    • @laytonrupp2909
      @laytonrupp2909 Месяц назад +1

      cope

    • @PBTexasBoy
      @PBTexasBoy 11 дней назад

      I would like to move on from "accountability", also. They've ran that one in the ground also...

  • @user-fd8fe9hk9q
    @user-fd8fe9hk9q Месяц назад +5

    Decadence wasnt just decay, but also the space in which the arts could flourish. He considers the decadent age of Greece the same period in which the arts and philosophies flourished.

    • @TheMachiavellians
      @TheMachiavellians  Месяц назад +4

      Decay is necessary for development true. However when Nietzsche speaks of the golden era of Greece he's referring to the Classical period. Nietzsche thought the Greeks were able to hold off decadence during the classical era. The Hellenistic period was very decadent and Nietzsche was quite critical of that time. Socrates was a sign of what was to come.

    • @amodernpolemic
      @amodernpolemic Месяц назад

      @@TheMachiavellians He cared most for Pre-Socratic Greece and the days of his forefather, Heraclitus. "Socrates was a sign of what was to come." Indeed!

    • @user-fd8fe9hk9q
      @user-fd8fe9hk9q Месяц назад +2

      @@TheMachiavellians I didnt say he thought that was golden age, but the age after the society "relaxes" it begins to create other things, although this is also the beginning of the end. Its more complicated than just good or bad.
      When certain plants flower you know they are near death. For example, Nietzsche did consider Rome "unflowered", stating that what should have gone into the flower stayed in the stem. In other words, Rome kept expanding militarily and technically but not too much culturally.
      Rome's decadence didnt create the beauty that might have justified its existence in the eyes of Nietzsche.

    • @bologna470708
      @bologna470708 Месяц назад +1

      He believed Pre-Socratic Greece was the Golden age by the time Aristophanes, Euripides and Socrates, get onto the scene, strength, warmth, beauty, and goodwill are replaced by reason and dialectic. Rationalising things by the Socratic method like, Plato his pupil who Nietzsche never forgave- while talking everyone else into the ground.

    • @amodernpolemic
      @amodernpolemic Месяц назад

      @@user-fd8fe9hk9q I appreciate you expanding your original comment.

  • @antun88
    @antun88 Месяц назад +1

    Humanity? Europe did fell but the rest of the world was doing fine, still is. Specifically Christian Europe fell in the ww1 with the abolishment of 3 mayor Christian Empires at the same time. And let's not forget the fourth, the Greek Empire, which was supposed to be revived from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire but that didn't happen.
    The simple fact that everyone is talking about the fall of "the civilization" or "the west" and refusing to state that they are obviously talking about Christian world, tells you all you need to know about why it fell.

    • @lynnfisher3037
      @lynnfisher3037 Месяц назад +2

      Yeah the rest of the world is doing just great.

    • @rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488
      @rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488 12 дней назад

      😮

    • @benwinter2420
      @benwinter2420 4 дня назад

      Christians are Martians/Mars worshippers . . 'Christ' was Mars closer before , the ante (not anti) Christ refers to Christ having other names before as in Apollo , Ceres

  • @pinchebruha405
    @pinchebruha405 27 дней назад +1

    Well I love your subject matter and take… sadly I can’t focus on the subject matter because of your voice, just dosent work for me

  • @hunniebe6
    @hunniebe6 Месяц назад

    But God.

  • @YoungBillyKatastrophe
    @YoungBillyKatastrophe 4 дня назад

    Humanity started its decline in 1492 😂😂😂

  • @iloveamerica4891
    @iloveamerica4891 14 дней назад

    Nietzsche seems like a Yogi. Hinduism is about looking inward within oneself with profoundness as the future. Hinduism is the science and technology of wellbeing. Hindusim is not a belief system. Hinduism does not have submission. Hinduism does not have commandments.

  • @sonyyung5510
    @sonyyung5510 Месяц назад

    So one of the philosophers that helped pioneer the idea that God is dead, is appalled that humanity is doomed to fall into decadence?? Hmmm, interesting.........

    • @3Kiwiana
      @3Kiwiana Месяц назад

      Maybe he saw the future, we’re we are now, under the control of Marxists, remember their philosophy is redemption through sin.

    • @JeffMTX
      @JeffMTX 17 дней назад +1

      Didn’t he say ‘God is dead, and we have killed Him?’

  • @RichardLucas
    @RichardLucas 26 дней назад

    There is no decline, really. We live about as well as we ever did. Better than we lived for 99.99% of the time we've been on this planet - including Nietzsche's time. We have antibiotics and air conditioning, among other things that make life objectively better. No one has any good reason to believe we could do much better than we're already doing, frankly. You have nothing and no one to point to in history to make the claim. So how do you justify resonating with this, folks? Lol. Just a resentful nature? A miserable individual? Yeah, that's just _you._ "Civilization" is doing fine.

    • @Fireneedsair
      @Fireneedsair 23 дня назад +1

      You don’t really get this do you?🤪🤣

    • @RichardLucas
      @RichardLucas 23 дня назад

      @@Fireneedsair I think I do. You know, you don't have to actually _agree_ with Nietzsche, lol. It's okay for you to have your own point of view. I shared mine. I'm totally authorized to do that. But you know, we can talk about Nietzsche. I've been fascinated with him and his position among continental philosophers for decades. You don't have to agree with any of them, either. You seem to think if I understood Nietzsche that i would agree with him. Lol.

    • @Fireneedsair
      @Fireneedsair 23 дня назад

      @@RichardLucas so you don’t think comfort leads to decadence?

    • @RichardLucas
      @RichardLucas 23 дня назад

      @@Fireneedsair I think "decadence" needs to be unpacked. It's just a word. "Ambition" is a word we all assume means something good, but it's a gloss for feelings of social inadequacy, which are entirely subjective. One is the highest moral and aesthetic authority in their own lives. Some people hate that. They can't refute it, but we've seen that people are slow to give up error. Admitting the full truth of our moral condition is scary because it means giving up a tool in our instinctive war-making kit.

  • @janealivekickin5302
    @janealivekickin5302 25 дней назад

    I feel Nietzche's ideology is narcissistic and void of any humanity, based of course on some value of humanity but only from a fragile sense of a fractured mentality of looking inwards at his own morality.

    • @derekf9017
      @derekf9017 15 дней назад +2

      He always shits all over everything

  • @jeshkalasznikov6916
    @jeshkalasznikov6916 4 дня назад

    sound like Unabomber to me.

  • @user-jr5vy2bg5q
    @user-jr5vy2bg5q Месяц назад

    Perplexing as it is for Nietzshce to celebrate instinct, he seems to slander the most important one that has contributed most to our success as a species as a "herd instinct".

  • @calvingrondahl1011
    @calvingrondahl1011 2 дня назад

    Nietzsche was a prophet of our own time… God is dead. The Will to Power shows the way forward.

  • @EY_YES
    @EY_YES Месяц назад +3

    Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel. Amos 5:1
    Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts. Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts: and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and will set thee as a gazingstock. Nahum 3:4-6
    Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations. And I will do in thee that which I have not done, and whereunto I will not do any more the like, because of all thine abominations. Ezekiel 5:8
    As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice. Daniel 9:13-14

    • @lynnfisher3037
      @lynnfisher3037 Месяц назад +1

      Save your sermons for the proper subject. This isn't it Reverend.

    • @myratsalad
      @myratsalad Месяц назад +1

      @@lynnfisher3037 Dead wrong, this is more relevant than you can think. But, if you're listening to Nietzsche I don't suppose you do much of that

    • @LastRebel1978
      @LastRebel1978 Месяц назад

      He’s done said he will not be mocked. Every age of history tries it. Respect and fear of the proper and only God would be welcome, but you know we live in a new day so none of that is relevant and we’re smarter than the generations that built the world, sure. Whatever you want to tell yourself that makes you FEEL better……..thanks for using the word sir! IT IS WRITTEN.

  • @rudolfsykora3505
    @rudolfsykora3505 29 дней назад

    Or end of 3rd kind of chimpanzee living tribal form of life and territorial behaviour, and beginning of true civilisation

  • @SKF358
    @SKF358 21 день назад

    You should know how to pronounce Nietzsche.

  • @user-vadimsirbu
    @user-vadimsirbu 24 дня назад

    ... a Poor Philosophy in regards to the practical use of the Fruits of Knowledge, Science and Innovations through the Lack of Wisdom and Non- Meritocracy ..

  • @winstonsmith2663
    @winstonsmith2663 25 дней назад

    Crap AI voice

  • @johnmcmahon5225
    @johnmcmahon5225 6 дней назад

    That mixing of races stuff is magical nonsense.

  • @staza1
    @staza1 25 дней назад

    Godless gibberish. This is the sort of nonsense you get when you reject God and believe that you actually have wisdom without the source of truth guiding your mind.

  • @joegott9391
    @joegott9391 19 дней назад +1

    Strong men make easy times, easy times make weak men, weak men make hard times, hard times make strong men,...............

  • @onetruecalling
    @onetruecalling Месяц назад

    A very basic understanding of human drives. Such an outdated and ill developed awareness of the human pschy

  • @haydenquakenbush8626
    @haydenquakenbush8626 5 дней назад

    This is fuckin boooorrrrring!