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I wish I had read this before my philosophy course assigned reading Nietzche. It’s completely changed how I view the works I’ve read by him. They make sense to

• claudeganon 6y ago
  Nietzche wasn’t crazy, but his whole philosophy is an appeal to irrationalism and obscuring the truth revealed by Christianity: social orders built on sacrifice of an “other” are little more than a collective crime we engage in to tell lies about ourselves, society, and defuse collective tensions. His intent was to build a philosophy that would reconstruct the veil of archaic orders that obscured these truths, justifying a return to a sacrificial systems within the context of modernity. This is evident before his death, where he was obsessed with the problem of Dionysus versus the example of Christ, ultimately recognizing that they were the same figure, but conjugated toward a lie (creation of a false divine through ritual violence) or the truth (a victim of collective irrationality, for which it is our duty to transcend): https://www.jstor.org/stable/2905504?seq=1 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2905504?seq=1