The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Reading The Gay Science



A brilliant but malicious little shit, a tireless and tedious drama queen, and very likely a homosexual - possibly merely larval.

And that last was doubtless related by no means coincidentally to his loathing for Christianity, democracy, and socialism and his genuine life-long admiration for caste societies featuring an hereditary nobility living on slavery.

Especially among the Greeks.

His life was absolutely dominated by the profound resentment - in his case, its object being the society of his time - that he so transparently displaced onto others, “the herd,” whom he scorned and hated all his days.

Not by any means the last philosopher about whom such things could be said.

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