Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption

Nietzsche lost my interest when I read that he said that animals were God's second blunder.

Where is the criticism of the "envying"?  Is envy not also a fault?  Are only those with means capable of fault?  Poor and uncultivated need not mean amoral. I get that it sure seems easier to fault those with means, but not being well off is not an excuse to covet.

Yeah, and that is just one of the fundamental facts that the Nit man failed to address.  Thou shalt not covet.

I don't care much for streams of indecisive consciousness (better known as thought bubbles?) where little regard is had for addressing even the most obvious of internal inconsistencies and flaws in logic.

And there are other contentious issues that render any possible simple and clear truth being buried under their weight.  

Pride in one’s audio system is what Nietzsche is criticizing here; development of one’s taste by means of one’s audio system is what he is trying to praise.

I dunno if he was criticizing having affection for one’s audio system. Who here doesn’t?

Rather, he said "..will always continue to strive after possessions: this striving will constitute his entertainment, his strategy in his war against boredom."

Just accumulating stuff. People do that for a variety of reasons not confined to those the Nitty man includes, and that is the exercising of their right of freedom to choose. Should a moral philosopher wish to make this circular and convoluted and place constraints on what they consider freedom to be, then we have this discussion.

Perhaps another thought - audiophiles actually serve a public good in that the constant desire for better and superior technology spills over into the general market place so that non-audiophiles can reap what others have created - to borrow a word from something hilde45 said.

The win only comes when no further upgrades desired or purchased, and this has to be permanent position. One may be contemplating or desiring audio system changes right up to death, in this case futile endeavor.

I consider that the pursuit of mediocrity. Is this be something that disciples of Nitty aspire to? Guys.  That's a win?  Upside down and inside out.

I prefer these words of challenge from Walt Whitman, an American poet -

Passage, immediate passage! the blood burns in my veins!
Away O soul! hoist instantly the anchor!
Cut the hawsers—haul out—shake out every sail!
Have we not stood here like trees in the ground long enough?
Have we not grovell’d here long enough, eating and drinking like mere brutes?
Have we not darken’d and dazed ourselves with books long enough?

Sail forth— steer for the deep waters only,
Reckless O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me,
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

O my brave soul!
O farther farther sail!
O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God?
O farther, farther, farther sail!