Thinkers I Admire

I like your list!!! Did not recognize some of those people, but the ones I did recognize I like very much.

"They say I'm too flamboyant. I say they're malnutritioned." - Gucci

There are various Nietzschean themes within rap. Kanye's got a pretty kick ass song with "Black Skinhead" though too. (Love the pseudo-sample of Manson's "The Beautiful People" on that one.

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along with god, the pedestal itself has supposedly disintegrated. "God is dead" does not merely refer to the Christian deity, or deities in general, but the validity of humanity's metaphysical disposition as a whole. Bataille appears to be one of the first major thinkers to have embraced this "death of God" at a level that delves beyond the intellect. Indeed, such a "death" can only truly be realized gutturally, through complete, unconscious embodiment. It is far beyond simply "becoming a god" yourself. If honestly pursued, one finds oneself becoming (as opposed to conscientiously, actively "becoming," which would ultimately just be more metaphysical farce) something along the lines of a Dionysian Satyr (at least in Nietzsche's poetic terms).

Basically, the whole "God is dead" deal may have been a bigger deal in the past. Once that became less shocking, people may have been more apt to look further into Nietzsche and see the real transgression. Gods are easy to kill, as our idols. What he did in many ways what he did was provide a very specific voice for the outlier. Which I feel is perhaps the only ethical intellectual agenda, then again ethics like morals have yet to be socially trans-valued so fuck it I'll call em relative. For me Nietzsche's most important text is his later text. Twilight of the Idols, The Antichrist, The Will to Power, and yes even his so-called "letters of madness." It was in the signatures of these various letters where we see the Nietzschean project complete and finally achieve its goal of overcoming the rabble of this very boring concrete rough modern boring scientific approach to existence. He does that by ending Kant and the Enlightenment. Many people will say I'm making too broad of a claim, but it is not just mine as I had mentioned Foucault's statement about Nietzsche essentially being a paradigmatic revolution on his own. Nietzsche, and I think both Bataille and Foucault would have agreed, and even Derrida, was THE ANTICHRIST for modernity in that he was a an anti-rational messianic figure. His Dionysian refusal to sacrifice for guilt never ruled out the sacrifice that was living the way he did as well as constantly transgressing his own limits constantly. We are talking about a man who was told to stop writing due to the severe head pain of which powerful opiates were necessary and still not kill it. Yet that same man would go into manic writing modes (and I use the term manic in a proud sense, as I'm in no way endorsing any psychological theory on bipolar disorder, on that issue I stand with Sheen, bi-winning) and write through the pain for insane amounts of time. What did he get for his very Christ like suffering. Isolation. Alienation of his own work by idiotic anti-Semites and proto-Nazis. Nietzsche is a Dionysian Christ figure though... keep in mind Dionysus was crucified as well. Read the letters, some are signed Caesar, some are signed Dionysus, some are signed the Crucified. In his autobiography his last question is "have I been understood Dionysus v/s the Crucified." The answer at the very moment in time he asked that was clearly "no." Not just due to his lack of publicity and understanding, but because he didn't even grasp the psycho-sociological force that is what Derrida would later call "Deconstruction." In a sense, Nietzsche's one of the greatest scientists of all time considering the discovery he actually made. Darwin's little abstraction was not as mind blowing as our history reports it. Imagine being the first person to be able to see a process of deprocess that is both working in the same and opposite directions. We are outside of 2D text for sure. I imagine it would cause hallucinations perhaps. Personally, I know that if I get to over analyzing in a Deconstructive fashion I will eventually temporarily literally LOSE LANGUAGE. At such moments I am not sure if I am more authentic or somehow panicked over not being able to represent. I've felt both ways during those moments my inner experience leaves "words" behind and my own thoughts are gibberish and sound foreign to me. Derrida and other deconstructive authors have mentioned similar issues as it makes an individual become capable of being multi-perspective but this includes perspectives that we may not have known existed like Turin Collapse or abscess seizure, but the medical docs are usually wrong on all that. Only Dr. House was a skilled doctor. After the Turin collapse and the questionable existence of feeling empathy with a horse, Nietzsche was dead... and he had killed him. Bataille points this out as Nietzsche's sacrifice. Once the actual aimless social process of deconstruction is seen, especially outside of text within the sociological reality, one's mind has some serious reactions. I've had various conversations with people about the substance DMT and what they called 5D/Third Eye experience. If I had not read Bataille, I may never have grasped any of this, as it was in "On Nietzsche" that various sections stood out to me... especially the appendix on Nietzsche and limitlessness, as a sort of reverse zen or something. I actually happened to be reading said appendix while having a 5D psychedelic discussion while entirely sober, that means not even a beer. When I finally saw the DISSOLUTION of MY intersubjectivity I felt various physical and mental reactions that I would later be told is the same as tripping on DMT. There is a tingling rush feeling that feels like it is running up the spine over the top of the skull and down into the center of one's brain. This points to Pineal gland, which is naturally connected with the DMT that our own bodies produce. The tingling sensation increases exponentially. Suddenly one gets what Bataille seemed so torn up about while also being so excited about. One may chuckle and weep at the same time and absolutely NOT know how to interpret or give meaning to these bodily functions. Fairly quickly, one's visionary field begins to go white and time no longer seems to exist as its purely subjective nature is experienced. It is a made up construct that we treat like scientific law. Anyway for someone taking DMT it only lasts like 5 minutes. For someone like me who had it as the result of reading Bataille's text and really feeling for the first time in my fucking life that I had read an author who suffered the same intellectual path I did. Sure I was already well aware of Nietzsche, but Nietzsche is much more of a gang member or a cheerleader, depending on your social context. Bataille was the first author that I know of, who I would feel comfortable saying was able to grab something meaningful from Nietzsche's so-called madness. I never had even considered that a theoretical or philosophical text would ever make me feel something strong at all, much yet give me such an extreme of feeling just due to reading. When the words went but I could still hear inner gibberish, I was terrified. I thought I was off for that the final last trip to the nuthouse. To this day there is something that speaks to me from beyond my realm in Bataille's text. Nietzsche's text is profound but also very fun due to its extreme disrespect for normative standards. Yet I've only gotten trapped in that scary place when I resisted it. My thoughts became deoncstruction perhaps. Everything I saw I could see underneath in a half metaphorical use of said term. I was in shock really. Once that ended I began to study such experiences. They did tend to occur in extreme moments, which gives valid to Foucault. If one can handle the summit and the dive off the cliff... follow this barely weeded out path left by Bataille and Nietzsche. I keep meaning to find another route, but I'm just so in awe of my own experience, why give that up for rationalization?

Anyway I hope that ramble is helpful, you're reading someone who often forgets every single word he ever fucking knew so a slight break would be nice lol. Nietzsche is a rupture point in history where deconstruction was discovered, it would be enhanced by Derrida later. This is the most important contribution of Nietzsche when I think about it. It is sacrificial, I entirely plan on losing my mind one day... who wants that annoying fucking thing anyway... most of the time its neurotic. I hope it is farther down the line but if i am able to discover something on par with what I've been talking about, I may collapse right here as I type. Sure God is dead, but I'd never agree with Richard Dawkins on that. Fuck him. and his contributions to religious atheism and all his other over-simplistic bull shit. The burden does fall on our generation, because I highly doubt the next one has a better chance and this past one didn't do shit to change the system radically. The kicker is that it is deconstruction that acts as a type of auto-sociological cleaning device. There positivist thinkers... your universal law is deconstruction. (Back to my main point, this is what is important about Nietzsche's work to me... that intellectual transgressive trajectory.

The God Nietzsche actually killed (shh but don't tell anyone yet because the zombies in lab coats do not know they're dead yet) was the god of Scientism and Rationality and even Durkheim's social theory on anomie and such. After Nietzsche if we consider human history like building a house... Nietzsche makes us ask, were the people before this guy competent at all??