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[TD1]

To not ban Nietzsche, though, would be injurious to society.

[Bauglir]

To not ban Nietzsche, though, would be injurious to society.

Explain?

[Angle]

To not ban Nietzsche, though, would be injurious to society.

Explain?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM&

[Bauglir]

I thought there might be a reference I wasn't getting. I'm still not getting it! But that more or less confirms it.

[Baffler]

I think he's accusing him of trolling. I share his apparent dislike for Nietzsche, for what it's worth, but it I'm not sure I'd support an outright ban on his works no matter how much of an asshole he was.

[Helgoland]

He's... often misinterpreted. And his sister, a dyed-in-the-wool fascist and anti-semite, disfigured much of his work. And he may have been partial to fedoras, as far as I can tell from his works.

[hops]

And he may have been partial to fedoras, as far as I can tell from his works.

[Angle]

Okay, that part I don't get. What's all this fuss about fedoras?

[Dutchling]

fedoras are literally hitler

[Truean]

More refusing to change in academia:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/14/kennesaw-state-advisor-its-bigger-than-ksu_n_7284748.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/05/kennesaw-state-advisor_n_7521164.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtxSFltiq9c

Maybe tell the student they can set up an appointment at a later time? To be fair to her, perhaps her department was understaffed, who knows. That said, how lovely that just asking for services you paid for is "harassment."

Relevant: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/new-harbinger-publications-inc/parents-who-drive-you-cra_b_7511242.html?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

That said, I've never agreed with Nietzsche. You don't strengthen a wall by bashing it, anymore than you strengthen a person by bashing them. If what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, then willful injury would be a good thing, absurd.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

What Nietzsche has come down to in my experience is the answer to whether or not human beings ultimately have any agency over the world. If we do, Nietzsche is mostly invalid. If we don't, he's on point. I definitely admire him more on my more hopeless days.

That said, he wasn't a fascist or even properly right-wing by any stretch of the imagination, and this willfully ignorant college marxist jackass (because having met a good deal of them, they are always jackasses, it's the crawling in my skin of the early 20's) rustles my jimmies.

[Frumple]

@ that first one, true, I think remember that a little. Dude in question was actually like a half-hour or something late to an appointment he had made previously, iirc, and was apparently intent on sitting around and waiting instead of doing any of that reschedule-appointment-like-sane-person stuff. Forget the exact details, but it was more than just on the advisor's part -- there was some poor behavior on the student's end, as well. Still could have been handled more effectively, obviously, but there was more to it than just asking for the services paid for.

[Reelya]

It's kind of ironic that the guy leading the charge against the Nietzsche group is the head of the college's Marxist society. I mean you can make the exact same case that studying Marx will endanger the student body because they'll be exposed to Soviet-style ideological purges. In fact, the noted events bear out that presumption.

[Antsan]

What Nietzsche has come down to in my experience is the answer to whether or not human beings ultimately have any agency over the world. If we do, Nietzsche is mostly invalid. If we don't, he's on point. I definitely admire him more on my more hopeless days.

That said, he wasn't a fascist or even properly right-wing by any stretch of the imagination, and this willfully ignorant college marxist jackass (because having met a good deal of them, they are always jackasses, it's the crawling in my skin of the early 20's) rustles my jimmies.

I thought Nietzsche's most important point was the Übermensch, which wasn't what the Nazis made out of it but rather the idea that humans should try to free themselves of societal conventions to advance towards being better humans, closer to what an ideal human should be like. I thought that was a rather positive message (and ironically quite opposite to what Hitler used it for).

[Graknorke]

Well actually people do get stronger by being bashed. Shin conditioning is an example.