We are just ridiculous monkeys, the lot of us.
We mourn someone we don't know, who did very little in the world except entertain us - but of course that is so important - we celebrate dominance based on nothingness: "King" of "Pop"? He was such a leader . . . in dancing? In singing? In dressing? In what, exactly? And what if he has escaped justice? What if he did molest those children? Weep because he brought so much to better humanity, right? You stupid, stupid monkeys.
As he swam in the Mediterranean . . .
Nietzsche gradually changed his philosophy of pain/pleasure, and with it, his perspective on difficulty.
Watching the sun set over the Bay of Naples at the end of Oct 1876, he was infused with a new faith in existence.
He felt he had been old at the beginning of his life and shed tears at the thought that he had been saved at the last moment. ~Alain de Botton
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TWATTWEETS @standswithagist
Friday, June 26, 2009
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