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Imagine reading this and becoming a cringe atheist

Hats off to all the narrators. It's really difficult for me to just sit down idly and read a book. I process information much better when I'm in motion, so I prefer to listen to it in audio form over my headphones while I'm working or even just walking outside. I think they all did a great job. I already knew Nietzsche's works were very deep, of course. But I didn't expect for a book that's almost about to be 130 years old to feel so intimately relevant to this very day and speak to me on such a personal level. It's quite ironic because I am a socialist. A communist no less. But I'm not the type of socialist Nietzsche rightfully scorned. It's clear in the way he speaks of socialists that he's referring to the socialists of his own time. The 19th century Utopian Socialists, who huddled around in communes and tried to make everyone behave the same. I agree with Nietzsche that this specific kind of socialism, this "barracks socialism" if you will, is basically slave morality in its purest form. Another allegory is that its akin to the "socialism" one would see as a rank-and-file soldier in the military, just without the officers. It's a repressive equality, it enforces equality not by uplifting everyone but by compressing everyone down to the same mediocre level under a tight, iron ceiling. It is truly abominable to even think about. So why am I a communist if I acknowledge this fact? Because communism, not utopianism, doesn't concern itself with hierarchy in the abstract. Communism doesn't deny natural hierarchy, nor seek the fool's errand of "abolishing" it. It's only concerned with a single specific hierarchy that is as man-made as religion. The hierarchy of class. And this specific hierarchy is not one that values nor rewards the attributes Nietzsche considered _noble._ On the contrary, the system of wage labor is even better at imposing equality-through-mediocrity than even Christianity or the socialists he despised. Strong and weak, intelligent and unintelligent, creative and incurious, noble and mediocre alike are all reduced to cogs in a monolithic profit-generating machine. Alienated from their own labor. And who stands at the top? The most mediocre few humanity has ever been cursed with. Only exceptional in one quality, as professional parasites. And in spite of their great privilege and opulence, they too concede their ability to be human. Even more than the worker. They have sacrificed it to be agents of Capital, and they can't break from it even if they wanted to. Their "god" is stock numbers on a board, and they are more devout than any hermit or priest. Doesn't Nietzsche also say that for one to be noble they must rely on their own will and engage in self-overcoming? Is that not the ultimate form of power to Nietzsche? If one relies on trampling the wills of others and exploiting them, that is not nobility. That is weakness, the domination being nothing but compensation for that inner weakness. A truly powerful and exceptional _super man_ has no need of that, his power is self-evident to any who look upon them. So tell me, does Mark Zuckerburg, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, or any of these other bourgeois figures represent that to you? Are they really the epitome of human creativity, genius, strength, nobility, and civilization to you? Are they the "Übermenschen?" Our capitalist system certainly thinks so, that's why they are at the top! And look at the world this money-based class system has produced after centuries of unchallenged rule on a global scale. Are you happy? Is this the flourishing, enlightened higher society of the future that Nietzsche spoke of? I don't think so. Quite morbid if it is. If humanity is _naturally_ categorized the way Nietzsche outlines: with a few who are either exceptional in strength/resolve or intelligence, and the rest is a mass of pettiness and mediocrity, then the best way for nature to take its course and manifest itself is in a classless society. A clean slate from the artificial constraints of property and the superstition of infinite profit. One where labor is what one chooses, where people treat work as their luxury for personal growth and not their begrudging means of survival, where the principle of distribution is accorded with one's contribution to society, and without the barriers of economic inequity repressing the intellectually exceptional. My "equality" is one that represses no one, and uplifts everyone who WANTS to be uplifted. Rewards those who are not satisfied with a simple life and want to do more. That's my socialism. It's not based on a lofty abstract ideal to religiously impose on reality. I care about this life and this material world as much as Nietzsche does. And I do my best to make sure my ideals FOLLOW from material reality and scientific inquiry, not in futile conflict with it. And if Nietzsche is correct that a truly noble elite will emerge even from a classless society, which everyone undoubtedly acknowledges as such and they push humanity forward beyond its supposed limitations, I am perfectly content with that as a communist. That is an "elite" that I can get behind. That's just not the elite that I see now.

Thank you. I had the actual book about 10 years ago but I gifted it to a friend. I look forward to listening.

The noise gate kills me

Great guy, Nietche... And also Spinoza, are the best

Once the concept of nature had been opposed to the concept of God, the word natural necessarily took on the meaning of abominable. In letting God sit in judgment they judge themselves; in glorifying God they glorify themselves.

Deep....

Core math

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German? Like Qween Elizabeth? No thanks

I can’t read a book in 3 weeks much less 3 hours.

Based on the comments, I suspect there are a lot of early 20 somethings who posted.

The reason Nietzsche is popular is because with relatable language he puts things in a way more people can grasp onto, Other philosophers are logician/mathematicians which will reveal our intellectual true colors if we were to read them.

Knowmorenews, take the greenpill.

I wish the best for everyone and wish things could light up for all they will stop the hate and be happy if not it wont be good

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1 butt. Whos counting.

This sounds like Michael Sugrue

Yeah

I was an Atheist for a long time, till I was 30. Now I’m 40 and have studied the Bible and theology for 15 years.. and I can say after listening to this, how petty and stupid Nietzche’s arguments against God are. It’s like the drunken ramblings of a high school kid who read parts of the New Testament maybe once and never truly grasped any of the overall narrative.

hes was a Emo teen before it was cool.

Interesting. Thanks to those who contributed towards the reading, compiling and uploading of this work.

My fav book of all time. After reading it, I started buying his complete works.

Nietzsche is the type that likes to smell his own farts. He really is ignorant.

Decadence can be described as a worst kind of conditional love. It's love exclusively towards weak and sick. How wonderful in comparison to this disease is world around us. Rain falls equally on rich and poor, healthy and sick 🙂

Finally something I actually have to pay attention to understand

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This is garbage anyone who believes it is retarded

My nutz are nice and fat

9:53 oh yeah

I love the second reader. Very clear.

“Please outgrow Nitzche.” -Michael Sugrue

Why is it so difficult to find a Nietzsche translation in english that wasn't written by a fascist more than half a century ago? Its just poor scholarship that never makes any mention of more recent issues with the archive or the editorial choices his sister and her husband made into his works.

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After Zaratustra, one of os best compile thoughts.

I always try to get thru his stuff, but it's just so much "everybody is dumb but me, I'm so edgy and nobody understands me".

The fact that a woman is reading this is so ironic to what Frederick is saying I don’t think he would want a woman to read his work as an audiobook

Big appreciation for the readers. Thank you librivox and contributors for this great reading.

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