Field of swords

Facts about Nietzsche > No kids > No legacy > Atheist > 120 IQ (at best) > Died poor > Hated Christianity > Rejected by women > Encouraged Pride Why do people like this guy?

Nietzsche’s delusions of grandeur were a cope for his rejection by his idol Wagner and specifically Wagner’s wife, among other possible early traumas. His wordiness inspired an infernal philosophy that got him syphilis and madness, and served as inspiration for his nations self-destruction under Nazis. Ambitious teenagers are naturally attracted to Nietzsche because he expresses the liminal stage (“mom’s basement”) of frustrated and still unformed and invalidated self, marked by resentment, emotional instability, and sexual frustration tipping into homosexuality. This is precisely the dangerous state ritually staged by Dionysian rituals of Ancient Greece, to facilitate the participants’ exit from that stage. The difference is that teenagers tend to exit or grow out of that stage, while Nietzsche never did, his development stunted by those early narcissistic wounds he never overcame. And that’s why he took Dionisian mania — homicidal madness — as the norm of lived experience.

Feet in the underworld, heart on fire

walking around outside is like scrolling with your body

Realized what annoys me in a lot of modern media: it's too genre-savvy. Too self-aware: it can exist, innocently, independetly, "as such" — everything is references. Many people like this too now. Which makes them terminally self-conscious of their own presentation.

The Hero's Journey is a bad archetype. The refusal of the call is supposed to make him blameless and humble, so that his inevitable rise is thereby pure. In the real world, if you refuse the call, it stays refused.

Like difference between Cartesianism science and full-stack whole body science. I suspect maths itself after reaching a certain depth requires "whole bodymind cognition".

having done both of these things i can confirm, yes. graduate level math looks hard from the outside because of the jargon / symbolism but that's just a matter of unfamiliar language. high quality prose is, almost by definition, very readable so it doesn't look hard. but writing well involves this very global use of one's whole being to prioritize what is relevant, interesting, entertaining, clarifying, etc. and ignore what is not, whereas math can successfully be done in this very narrow autistic way

My worldview in 4 texts.

barbell theory says that 90-99% of your efforts should be dedicated to building a nice, cozy, happy little life and then the remainder should be spent on longshots at becoming god emperor of the lightcone