Allan Bloom on Nietzsche 1983 (3 of 5)
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Nietzsche in four words: "Become your own god".
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@onehappiness agreed
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@spruntfemalespray and it's you're dumb dumb
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@spruntfemalespray I agree. but read Ravelstein and tell me he wasn't a super smart, creepy guy.
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Absolutely right.
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@onehappiness I was waiting for something with substance too, but I already knew all of this.....
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Bloom was the arch-mental masturbator. Windy as desert flats in spring and empty as an abandoned hanger. He sound like what I imagine a predatory Priest sounds like to a child. You know, almost no-body outside of academia knows who this man is? He tried to say so much he said nearly nothing. Scholars are sensitive and have fragile ego's; as a result no-one in this room was willing to admit they'd gotten approximately nothing from this lecture and demand this pervert to get to the goddamn point!
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@greatsea what are you talking about?
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not because they are catholic so much as because they are Irish
Bloom was not "conservative" in any Burkean sense. He was culturally more of an FDR liberal - middle-class Jewish parents, etc. He was also over-the-top gay, which is irrelevant. But he was conservative in the sense of opposing cultural Marxism, and the people he genuinely influenced went on to become conservatives or neo-cons. But Bloom was a philosopher, not a strictly political thinker. His concern was the university and the state of the students not marginal tax rates or foreign policy.
MarcusCMarcellus 3 years ago 3