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Planning on reading Nietzsche.
Jan. 29th, 2012 02:15 pmI'm planning on reading "Beyond Good and Evil" by Nietzsche. Nietzsche is controversial even among those who would agree with him, because his sister and a friend of hers added anti-semitic crap to his writings against his will. But he absolutely hated bigots, especially anti-semites. In fact, he seems to have admired the Jews quite a lot for being intellectuals, and for being the only people on Earth to count literacy as a sign of manhood, among other reasons.
I got the idea to do this because, along with seeing quotes of his that I liked, and hearing the truth about his philosophies, I was also reminded by a short story called "The Last Ride of German Freddie" by Walter Jon Williams. Williams seems to understand Nietszche's philosophies very well, and the story includes the truth of his life, how his sister changed his works, etc. That in mind, the story *is* alternate history, basically "What if Nietzsche had gone to the Wild West and tested out his ubermensch philosophy to destruction?"
Speaking of Walter Jon Williams, you should find and read an anthology called "The Green Leopard Plague and other stories" by Walter Jon Williams. (Especially the first three stories in it.) It's a shame they don't have some of his other books I want to read. (He writes a whole spectrum of scifi, from distopic to utopic, and all the library seems to have are his distopic works. I hate distopic books).
I got the idea to do this because, along with seeing quotes of his that I liked, and hearing the truth about his philosophies, I was also reminded by a short story called "The Last Ride of German Freddie" by Walter Jon Williams. Williams seems to understand Nietszche's philosophies very well, and the story includes the truth of his life, how his sister changed his works, etc. That in mind, the story *is* alternate history, basically "What if Nietzsche had gone to the Wild West and tested out his ubermensch philosophy to destruction?"
Speaking of Walter Jon Williams, you should find and read an anthology called "The Green Leopard Plague and other stories" by Walter Jon Williams. (Especially the first three stories in it.) It's a shame they don't have some of his other books I want to read. (He writes a whole spectrum of scifi, from distopic to utopic, and all the library seems to have are his distopic works. I hate distopic books).
