Thread: Nihilist poseurs and tiresome decadent rebels?
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Old 01-30-2017   #29
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The society Nietzsche inhabited was relatively permissive.
Relatively permissive compared to other societies, but still tyrannical in its inculcation of supposedly objective, rigid, unquestionable values among the populace.
It certainly wasn't ideal, but it could definitely have been worse.
It could have been worse, but one of the core values of his work was in shedding traditionalism for traditionalism's sake preconceptions of morality and the universe. This would not have been pertinent outside of a society which forced traditionalism for traditionalism's sake, irrational preconceptions of morality and the universe on people.

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I'm of the unfashionable opinion that the West has been more or less progressing, despite numerous pendulum swings and setbacks.
This is my opinion also, generally. Contemporary values and art alienate me, but at least I'm safe enough to hide away in my corner of Romanticism and embarrassing earnestness.

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(see: current America).
Indeed. Hideous.
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