/lit/ - Literature

As always, Fred is right.

Ecce Homo
> Other learned cattle have suspected me of Darwinism on account of this word: even the "hero cult" of that great unconscious and involuntary swindler, Carlyle—a cult which I repudiated with such roguish malice—was recognised in my doctrine.

Twilight of the Idols
> Carlyle: or pessimism as a poorly digested dinner.

Twilight of the Idols
> I have been reading the life of Thomas Carlyle, this unconscious and involuntary farce, this heroic-moralistic interpretation of dyspeptic states. Carlyle: a man of strong words and attitudes, a rhetor from need, constantly lured by the craving for a strong faith and the feeling of his incapacity for it (in this respect, a typical romantic!). The craving for a strong faith is no proof of a strong faith, but quite the contrary. If one has such a faith, then one can afford the beautiful luxury of skepticism: one is sure enough, firm enough, has ties enough for that. Carlyle drugs something in himself with the fortissimo of his veneration of men of strong faith and with his rage against the less simple-minded: he requires noise. A constant passionate dishonesty against himself—that is his proprium; in this respect he is and remains interesting. Of course, in England he is admired precisely for his honesty. Well, that is English; and in view of the fact that the English are the people of consummate cant, it is even as it should be, and not only comprehensible. At bottom, Carlyle is an English atheist who makes it a point of honor not to be one.

Twilight of the Idols
>Emerson.—Much more enlightened, more roving, more manifold, subtler than Carlyle; above all, happier. One who instinctively nourishes himself only on ambrosia, leaving behind what is indigestible in things. Compared with Carlyle, a man of taste. Carlyle, who loved him very much, nevertheless said of him: "He does not give us enough to chew on"—which may be true, but is no reflection on Emerson.

Beyond Good and Evil
> What's lacking in England, and what has always been missing, that's something that semi-actor and rhetorician Carlyle understood well enough, the tasteless muddle-headed Carlyle, who tried to conceal under his passionate grimaces what he understood about himself, that is, what was lacking in Carlyle—a real power of spirituality, a real profundity of spiritual insight, in short, philosophy.

Rationality and reason is not only a waste of time, it is a symptom of a declining society. Wisdom comes to a people like vultures to a corpse. To engage in philosophy is to question your own state of being, to question your own culture, a symptom of a declining society. It brings about degeneracy. A truly great state does not question it's own being, the being of the state and its actions justifies itself. it is not in decline so people never get to thinking. When people start philosophizing, it can only mean the end is near. Embrace irrationalism. Reject rationality. Reject even the Socratic method and embrace the essence of things without questioning said essence

You should reject especially the Socratic method. It was the point in history where we saw an "embracement of reason". When you have an instrinsic sense of justice, not not listen when some faggot asks you to justify it. Think back to he Peloponnesian war, in presocratic times, when empires did not bother to come up with a justification for why a strong country conquered a weaker one. They did it because they could.

Wisdom should be shamed and philosophizing should be made illegal. Fuck dialectics

>Religion, morality and God all are illusions
>Noooo you should live your life as if everything would happen again and again, you just heckin do ok? Trust me bro

So the basic premise of his project is that real anti-semitism has never been tried

Humanity must transcend it is the only option for us, we have exhausted our creative impulses, reached the limits of what we can know, meaning and greatness is dead. We are now just stuck in this hellish dystopia of the last man. Our only option is to go beyond man.

does anyone have the nietzsche reading guide?

How does one identify their "unifying life project"?

>>15965279
I already explained it to you dummy, truly left wing class-based politics is a losing game because genuinely empathetic, anti-sadist ideologues are incredibly rare and in reality the vast majority of people only respect and pursue power. The forming religion of anti-racism in the west is based on American negro worship al a Freud, these idpol movements are nothing more than an pretense to suck nigger dick, because yankees crave the BBC since its libidinal energy is perceived as a powerful rising force, and the mutts have polluted the rest of the world with their sensibilities.

You can't unfuck this world because almost nobody really wants to unfuck it, they want to suck the big dick or be the big dick, they crave the sado-masochist dynamic and glorify slave morality. Actual egalitarian progress is about as far away from the average person's mind as God is when a "devout" teenage girl gets railed in the ass to avoid losing her virginity, it's all affect. The only way out of this is either extinction or the STEM nerds achieving a transhumanist victory and altering the common man's psychology as to be unrecognizable, i.e. a posthuman/ubermensch.

Why do you believe in Christianity, /lit/? Christianity is idealistic thinking which is life-denying and has no basis in reality.