Well wishes your way @mahgister you are never alone!
Nietzsche and Runaway Audio Consumption
Came across this today. A lot of posts bring up the issue of "how much is enough?" or "when is audio consumption justified" etc.
Does this Nietzsche aphorism apply to audio buying? You be the judge!
Friedrich Nietzsche: “Danger in riches. — Only he who has spirit ought to have possessions: otherwise possessions are a public danger. For the possessor who does not know how to make use of the free time which his possessions could purchase him will always continue to strive after possessions: this striving will constitute his entertainment, his strategy in his war against boredom.
Thus in the end the moderate possessions that would suffice the man of spirit are transformed into actual riches – riches which are in fact the glittering product of spiritual dependence and poverty. They only appear quite different from what their wretched origin would lead one to expect because they are able to mask themselves with art and culture: for they are, of course, able to purchase masks. By this means they arouse envy in the poorer and the uncultivated – who at bottom are envying culture and fail to recognize the masks as masks – and gradually prepare a social revolution: for gilded vulgarity and histrionic self-inflation in a supposed ‘enjoyment of culture’ instil into the latter the idea ‘it is only a matter of money’ – whereas, while it is to some extent a matter of money, it is much more a matter of spirit.”
Nietzsche, Friedrich. 1996. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits. Cambridge University Press. (p. 283-4, an aphorism no. 310)
I'm pretty sure @mahgister will want to read this one! (Because they speak so artfully about avoiding the diversion that consumption poses to the quest for true aesthetic and acoustic excellence.)
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Reality exceed fiction in miracles and mysteries....Reality dont ask to be believed first and last ... @mahgister I don’t think you need to apologize to the OP, I highly suspect this thread has way exceeded his expectations. And I, personally, love to read your posts. None of us are really alone here, now are we? Peace and joy to you this Christmas, my friend |
Unable to solve all our divisions , a new division comes to the front soon, and i cannot think otherwise than thinking about the Sidis sacred vouch to not create new technology because mankind cannot live wisely and in peace now... Perhaps Sidis was not the failed dreamer some said he was...But a true spiritual genius at the end... Read me right i am not for the return into the cave with hunter gatherers... But ask yourself who will control this new "intelligence" who will surpass mankind by being a "hive-like intelligence" ? How we, who participate and partake into something living and spiritual with air, water, earth soil, trees, animals and angels, will share the earth with "something" who dont need air, water, earth soil,trees,animals or angels, especially if this "something" own a kind of intelligence surpassing any humans but without body, save mechanical parts, no soul, and no spirit... Think about that.... Only transhumanists cultists are not frightened...They fear death...I dont fear death but i fear robots.... Now think about Nietszche WARNING again: «Only he who has spirit ought to have possessions: otherwise possessions are a public danger.» Who will own A.I. ? If we dont have spirit perhaps A. I. will own us at last...Our artefact will destroy us in some way... Or perhaps A. I. will be controlled by the like of Gates and Bezos and the unknown one and others "benefactors" of mankind who will say to us: "WE Gates/Bezos/Musk have spirit, you mankind had LESS, i know better than doctors or scientists, or better than yourself and my life work is the proof because at last i work for the well being of mankind ..." Did you not smell a bit of hubris and stupidity here? I smell it... |
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