Words Exhausted
December 14, 2012 15 Comments
eternal reoccurrence
not always relevant
mediocre minds
repeating geniuses
this fading ink
no masterpieces now
doesn’t mean
they’ve never been
what comes after the wasteland
isotopes, different thing, same place
hollowness, searching for meaning
to observe while withering away
a plea to the muses
finding a way
to try to cry
“help”
artificial metal jutting
out of soft landscapes
dripping liquid
breathe orderly
recede from
this cliff
positivity in
fragmentation
About Sean Lynch
That first verse reminded me of something I read in a manga recently.
It’s based off of an idea of Nietzsche’s.
i’m not familiar with nietzsche. what was his philosophy exactly?
Well, I’m glad that you don’t claim to be familiar with him without understanding his ideas like so many people do. He is the most misunderstood philosopher, for one people often associate him with nihilism, but his determination on man striving to better himself in order to reach uber macht is an antithesis of what he saw as the weakness of nihilistic acceptance of social norms: i.e. the will of the masses as opposed to the individual. He was a very complex individual, a genius in the truest sense of the word. People also think of him as anti-semitic, but that’s just because his The Will to Power was edited and distorted by his anti-semitic sister after his death. I won’t try to go further in detail here but he was basically against the Enlightenment philosophes, democracy, socialism, and ardently anti-christianity. If you want to know a little more read my essay “Protect by the Sword, Win by the Intellect”.
wow, you really like this guy, don’t you?
I wouldn’t say like, more like I’m very interested in his work.
if you could give me nietszche’s philosophy in a nutshell, how would you phrase it? If I have that, it’ll be easier for me to understand.
Like I said, you can’t explain his philosophy in “a nutshell”. Labeling ideas into categories such as a type of philosophy defeats the purpose of the subject in its entirety. Some call him an early existentialist along with Kierkegaard. Others call him an individualist. His most important ideas are the death of God, ubermensch, eternal reoccurrence along with others. But none of what I just stated does any justice to “Nietzsche’s philosophy” as you call it. If you want a cursory introduction read the wikipedia article on him or something.
thanks for reminding me that you can’t explain a philosophy in a nutshell. i sometimes forget that, and it’s a problem occasionally.
Inspiringly beautiful.
Always happy to inspire.
“this fading ink no masterpieces now doesn’t mean they’ve never been” I deal with this constantly. The void takes everything; it’s absolute and yet also the source. It’s a paradox.
No masterpieces is a reference to the work by Antonin Artaud.
Are there any original thoughts left? Or are we all just recaptioning old ideas, a generation of memes?
That is basically the question that is posed in the beginning, however, I come to the conclusion in the end that there is positivity in fragmentation. That perhaps that even though originality is rare, there is a more complex form of thought that can take inspiration from many things and still bring fresh meaning and ideas.