What I have learned from Nietzsche - YouTube

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Antistar2113 days agoLINKED COMMENT

In contemporary western society many have heard of Nietzsche but may not have read any of his works. Do people in the West understand his work?

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Jennifer Armstrong16 seconds ago

This latest video indirectly addresses the issue I have written about in the other reply to you below. Basically, this is a time of historical change, where people are either splinting from traditional values and becoming empty (usually narcissists) or they are using the knowledge and discipline that comes from their original training to adapt and transform themselves to a higher level of knowledge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MUEddVxJ9Q&lc=z13zy3nitwe4sxg2p23rw30qeveky23s

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Jennifer Armstrong3 days ago

Probably not. The core issue, as taken up by Bataille, is the creation of a new sense of ethics out of the womb of Christianity, as it were. If you do not understand that Christianity is not the polar opposite of Nietzsche, but rather a system to be transcended, the existence of which if very necessary for this Nietzschean purpose, then you do not understand Nietzsche's project overall. What has happened with many who interpret Nietzsche as standing in polar opposition to the values of Christianity, rather than in dialectical transcendence of it, is that they merely enshrine the sterile values of narcissism, and make them the norm. But this is not the Nietzschean project. You can't create a system of ethics if nothing is at stake, and for the narcissist, nothing really is at stake except his or her own survival. At core Western narcissism is empty and spiritually abortive.

On historical change and resulting stigmatization

On historical change and resulting stigmatization

On historical change and resulting stigmatization

Western narcissism and post-migration: the adjustment period - YouTube

Western narcissism and post-migration: the adjustment period - YouTube: jay are8 minutes agoLINKED COMMENT

i dealt with some similar things as you mention towards the end. I did know what was meant and said though it took me awhile to realize that the reason 3rd person naritives and stories were used to convey messages was so that the person conveying the message did not get in trouble for making threats or being inappropriate. I had one boss keep telling me how he got a haircut. It may have been because he couldn't keep up with me, and another was for being chewed out by his wife about the crappy place he worked. He was also a victim though which is kind of funny. Mad at me for doing too good or not letting their negative shit in, and his wife upset at him for whatever reason she wanted, and for him to deal with this.

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Jennifer Armstrong7 seconds ago

A lot of people seem to represent themselves as victims, and then if you really DO NOT understand the culture of victimhood because you came from a very proud culture that taught it was deeply shameful to be victimized in any way, you end up looking like some kind of ogre or perpetrator when you simply ask what others were implying about you.

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Remains of the day

Western narcissism and post-migration: the adjustment period

What I have learned from Nietzsche - YouTube

What I have learned from Nietzsche - YouTube: Antistar21131 seconds agoLINKED COMMENT

In contemporary western society many have heard of Nietzsche but may not have read any of his works. Do people in the West understand his work?

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Jennifer Armstrong2 seconds ago

Probably not. The core issue, as taken up by Bataille, is the creation of a new sense of ethics out of the womb of Christianity, as it were. If you do not understand that Christianity is not the polar opposite of Nietzsche, but rather a system to be transcended, the existence of which if very necessary for this Nietzschean purpose, then you do not understand Nietzsche's project overall. What has happened with many who interpret Nietzsche as standing in polar opposition to the values of Christianity, rather than in dialectical transcendence of it, is that they merely enshrine the sterile values of narcissism, and make them the norm. But this is not the Nietzschean project. You can't create a system of ethics if nothing is at stake, and for the narcissist, nothing really is at stake except his or her own survival. At core Western narcissism is empty and spiritually abortive.

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On knowing, and on being The Borg

Response to Antistar

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jay are 5 hours ago

That you think youre special bullshit must have been passed on for eons. I dealt with this as people didn't or got involved with things that I didn't like. So if I did a solid days work or became low key around certain groups or friends, I was automatically hit with the you think youre special. I wasn't trying to hurt any of these people but something happened or they learned to use this type of phrase when dealing without someone who is different then them. If you try to turn it on them, they have other built in responses.

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Jennifer Armstrong 1 second ago

Yes, I found that to be so! Anything and everything I did had the response, "You think you are so special." The main one was I wasn't born in an advanced, Western culture, so I had to try to gain knowledge about it without anybody or anything to rely on. That was when they really amped up the "you think you are so special" thing. It seems that a desire to be a parrot and not a human being had taken hold of a whole culture -- which was really too bad for me, I felt.

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Spinster Aunt 6 hours ago

I've just discovered your channel and haven't watched ALL of your videos yet, but a number of them. I just wanted to tell you that you. are. amazing. So thoughtful, so articulate-- it's really refreshing. THANK YOU!!!!!

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Jennifer Armstrong 1 second ago

oh thank you very much indeed.

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jay are 5 hours ago

where the hell are the rest of your comments? nearly 500 subs and not many comments. Maybe people are stealing your work or keeping tabs on you.

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Jennifer Armstrong 2 seconds ago

They are welcome to steal my work and make my viewpoints fashionable.

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