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Bryan
Reaction (Post)May 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM I think a lot of the commercial appeal is 1 "Thus Spake Zarathustra" is a cool name, and (2) there's a market who want to say that they have read the philosopher who said "God is dead."
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Brandenoz
Reaction (Post)May 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM The more I think about it I can't remember the last time I read a popular article on "What Thus Spake Zarathustra Means To Me."
Not faulting Nietzsche here - just agreeing with the basic observation that he is always being cited but few have any idea why… -
Don
Reaction (Post)May 6, 2026 at 1:22 PM The more I think about it I can't remember the last time I read a popular article on "What Thus Spake Zarathustra Means To Me."
Not faulting Nietzsche here - just agreeing with the basic observation that he is always being cited but few have any idea why… -
Cassius
PostMay 6, 2026 at 12:51 PM The more I think about it I can't remember the last time I read a popular article on "What Thus Spake Zarathustra Means To Me."
Not faulting Nietzsche here - just agreeing with the basic observation that he is always being cited but few have any idea why… -
Cassius
Reaction (Post)May 6, 2026 at 12:49 PM […]
It's the moustache.
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Agreed on those, too.
You can buy Nietzsche and have him on your bookshelf and make people think you're countercultural. -
kochiekoch
Reaction (Post)May 6, 2026 at 12:22 PM […]
It's the moustache.
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Agreed on those, too.
You can buy Nietzsche and have him on your bookshelf and make people think you're countercultural. -
Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)May 6, 2026 at 9:37 AM I can always find Marcus (often 3-4 versions of Meditations) and Epictetus in any bookstore so far. If Epicurus is suppressed despite being capable of offering more utility to human life, and if it is because he is disagreeable to the popular world view,… -
Kalosyni
Reaction (Post)May 6, 2026 at 9:36 AM In my local Books A Million, this was the only book on Epicureanism, which I find misleading because the author's purpose is to mislead people away from the topic. In my local Barns & Nobles, I found Lucretius but nothing else on Epicureanism. It seems… -
Brandenoz
PostMay 6, 2026 at 8:55 AM Those are some excellent points! -
Don
PostMay 6, 2026 at 8:18 AM […]
It's the moustache.
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Agreed on those, too.
You can buy Nietzsche and have him on your bookshelf and make people think you're countercultural.
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