If you need to explain, never ever shorted the phrase. Just keep saying “bourgeois nihilism”.
The bourgeois nihilism of today is distinct from the bourgeois nihilism of Nietzsche’s era…
It is kinda wild. I used to read some nihilist folks like Nietzche and my takeaway was to make what you can of nothing and help people when possible. Others just use it as an opportunity to be evil.
Nietzche was definitely not about helping people lol. More like, “wouldn’t it be rad if we killed all weak people and races? Also socialists and women too.”
Tell me you’ve never read Nietzsche without saying you’ve never read Nietzsche
People will get on this site and say literally anything that happens to be rattling around in their head
As someone who has actually never read Nietzsche, but some years ago did a course in college that had him, I have to ask: What is so wrong about Dessalines description of Nietzsche?
My takeaway from the course was that he was sort of a proto-fascist saying that society was divided between the weak and the strong, and if wasn’t for certain institutions that “glorify” the weak like the Judeo-Christian religions, the strong would rightfully subjugate the weak.
If that is a wrong view of his work I’m open for other interpretations.
What do you think Nietzsche meant when he said, “only men of intellect should hold property”.
https://dessalines.github.io/essays/nietzsche.html
All direct quotes from Nietzche:
It is dangerous to try equality with a woman; she will not be content with that; she will be rather content with subordination if the man is a man. Above all, her perfection and happiness lie in motherhood.
Women are considered profound. Why? Because we never fathom their depths. But women aren’t even shallow.
From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than truth—her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty.
Woman! One-half of mankind is weak, typically sick, changeable, inconstant… she needs a religion of weakness that glorifies being weak, loving, and being humble as divine: or better, she makes the strong weak–she rules when she succeeds in overcoming the strong… Woman has always conspired with the types of decadence, the priests, against the ‘powerful’, the ‘strong’, the men.
Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker’s sense of satisfaction with his small existence–who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of “equal” rights.
A high civilization is a pyramid; it can stand only upon a broad base; its prerequisite is a strongly and soundly consolidated mediocrity.
Only a man of intellect should hold property.
