To prepare for leading discussions on Nietzsche fo...

2009-07-24T10:04:25.005-07:00

To prepare for leading discussions on Nietzsche for the Houston Memorial Great Books Group, I have researched many sites and essays. You have defintely "over-flowed yourself" with your Uber-essay, and I used some of your questions.

As to your question "will Nietzsche be remembered as a genius or just a nineteenth century version of Rush Limbaugh"; many of the group were shocked at the comparison. (Itself surprising that anyone had any remaining capacity for shock after reading "Twilight of the Gods" and "Ecce Homo.") I attribute this to the notion that anyone so anti-Chrisitian not only cannot be all bad but cannot be any bad.

Nietzche asks: "Let us look forward a century and assume I have succeeded in my attempts to assassinate two thousand years of anti-nature and desecration of humanity.” (Ecce Homo, Chap. “Birth of Tragedy”, Part 4)

Question with a question with a question: "Does the buck for the century from 1889 to 1989 (WWI, II, drug culture, and the AIDS epidemic) stop at N’s writing desk?"

The answer is the Chapter title from "Ecce Homo": WHY I AM DESTINY.

The last song of the goat-man (in "Ecce Homo") is:

“Have I been understood? —Dionysus versus the crucified …”

Ron Haley

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To prepare for leading discussions on Nietzsche fo...