COVID and COVID vaccinations, ring a bell? Who pushed the vaccinations? Have you learned nothing? When one fails to learn from history, one is doomed to repeat it.
@monarchist @freepatriot Thank you!
Death metal band? What could I possibly contribute to a death metal band? =)
As for Nietzsche, I think the beauty is to focus on your on life, and rather disregard the rest, unless it comes into conflict with how you want to live your life and express yourself.
That avoids beautifully the utilitarian fallacy of using people as happiness units and believing that ethics and happiness can be calculated across individuals.
@monarchist @freepatriot So you don't see culture as "lessons learned" on the systems/society level?
A case can certainly be made for groups posessing knowledge that no single individual does. For instance, no single individual knows everything that goes into producing a pencil. Only groups of people know that.
However!
This I suspect could be solved through definition of the words to encompass both views.
@monarchist @freepatriot Maybe you are a compatibilist? And yes, this is a "technical" philosophical question, since if I know where you stand on this, it is easier for me to understand your reasoning around free will, traits, genetics etc.
@monarchist @freepatriot Oh boy did you just step on a philosophical mine. ;) I agree that there is proof or evidence of an external world, but there is no more certain way to kick a philosophical hornets nest than to claim there is proof of the external world! ;)
Nietzsche upgraded the Christian view: "ressentiment" (some frog word) is where humans go wrong.
Do for yourself, not against others, or something like that.
Good points, as usual. We must get you into a Swedish death metal band.
As a nihilist, I both affirm relativism and what relativity affirms, which is the existence of a consistent external reality.
As long as my retirement account is OK through the apocalypse, it's none of my business. - Every Boomer
Humans do not learn as groups, but individuals learn, and the ones who do not learn have to be filtered out.
Sad but true.