#Fredrich Nietzsche

[dark-romantics]

"If you crush a cockroach, you're a hero. If you crush a beautiful butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria."

~ Nietzsche

[wedarkacademia]

once Fredrich Nietzsche said "I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature" while Fyodor Dostoevsky said "how gladly I watched the summer fade, the leaves turn yellow on the trees, and the grass dry out over the wide steppe! summer is gone at last! the winds of autumn howl and groan, the first snow falls in whirling flakes."

[thefalloutwiki]

Fallout 3: Morse code

Were you previously aware that the Abandoned Apartments in The Pitt in Fallout 3 has a radio that transmits a Morse code message?

When translated, we get the German, “Der Abgrund blickt auch in dich hinein,” which translates to “The abyss also looks inside you.”

The text is a partial quote from German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his book, Beyond Good and Evil. You can read about Morse code in the series here:

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Morse_code

[m1ssnovember]

I am fire forced to go across ice and I am ice forced to burn in your flames

[andreytarkosvky]

Deniz kıyısında bir ihtiyar taşçı kayayı yontmaktadır. Güneş onu yakıp kavurur. O da Tanrıya yakarır keşke güneş olsaydım diye. “Ol” der Tanrı. Güneş oluverir. Fakat bulutlar gelir örter güneşi, hükmü kalmaz. Bu kez bulut olmak ister. “Ol” der Tanrı. Bulut olur. Rüzgâr alır götürür bulutu, rüzgârın oyuncağı olur. Rüzgâr olmak ister bu kez. Ona da “Ol” der Tanrı. Rüzgâr her yere egemen olur, fırtına olur, kasırga olur. Her şey karşısında eğilir. Tam keyfi yerindeyken koca bir kayaya rastlar. Oradan eser buradan eser, kaya bana mısın demez! Bildiniz! Tanrı kaya olmasına da izin verir. Dimdik ve güçlü durmaktadır artık dünyaya karşı… Ama sırtında bir acı ile uyanır... Bir ihtiyar taşçı kayayı yontmaktadır!

[deadpoetsdeath]

“You,” he said, “are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

[p3arlsandcoff3]

BLACK SWAN - THE UNREWARDING CHASE AFTER PERFECTION

Tw: bulimia, self-harm, sexual assault, body horror

''Black swan'', directed by Darren Aronofsky, is a 2010 film. It deals with our main character, Nina, a ballerina which gets picked for the role of both The white swan and The black swan in a production of "Swan lake", but as she is urged by her artistic director to 'lose herself' her sanity crumbles before her. In this post I'd like to address the themes, motifs, character development, and what black swan made me feel, because I find art is about emotions.

★ SWAN LAKE ANALOGY

The story of "Swan lake" is a direct analogy most readers can pick up on during their watch of Black swan and I'd like to highlight some thoughts of mine on the parallels between the two.

" virginal girl, pure and sweet, trapped

in the body of a swan. She desires

freedom, but only true love can

break the spell. Her wish was

granted in the form of a prince.

But before he can declare his love,

her lustful twin, the Black Swan,

tricks and seduces him.

Devastated, the White Swan leaps

off a cliff, killing herself. But,

in death, finds freedom. " - Leroy

This recounting of "Swan lake" is a basic synopsis of the movie Black swan. Nina is perfect, and she finds this need for perfection a prison. We see her eat half a fruit for breakfast, spend all her time in the company, and put mountains of effort into every step she takes. This is exactly Nina's downfall - if Leroy was right about one thing it's that perfection is inherently imperfect. It's messy and dirty and full of mistakes, because perfect is expected.

Nina believes her 'freedom' will come in the form of Leroy, that he can cultivate her into the girl she was destined to be, and sees Lily as her doppelganger - an evil xerox who wishes to steal her only answer away from her. Nina is mistaken, and actually her mistake falls perfectly into the plot of Swan lake - she mixes up the roles. Lily is much closer to the prince in the sense she allows Nina to be herself. She genuinely desires to see Nina succeed and yet doesn't believe that Nina should torture herself to perfection. Although it's difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion during the film, when the credits roll, I think we all know who's the twin, who's the swan, and who's the prince.

★ THE THEORY OF ART

Nietzche (😒...) Coined the terms 'dyonisian' and 'apollonian' in his book, Birth Of Tragedy. The Dyonisian is the tendency for freedom - pleasure, lack of thinking, impulse. The Apollonian is the tendency for structure - order, planning, perfecting. Nietzche claims that good art is the balance between the two, you can't be overly obsessive over detail nor carelessly creating.

Nina is Apollonian. She is so invested in being the perfect dancer she loses what made her good in the first place - her love for the profession, her daintiness, her emotional connection to pieces. Throughout the movie, we see how obsessive Nina becomes with perfection as her bulimia gets worse, she grows suspicious of her peers, and eventually resorts (does she...?) to murder for her sake. Truly, Nina couldn't balance art because she couldn't let herself go, and only when she did her performance was perfect.

Black swan made me unnerved. As an artist, it's truly an enthralling experience seeing a young woman shred herself to bits trying to be perfect. I almost cried when Nina forced herself to puke the nothing she ate, because it's an amazing metaphor; trying to use up something that is not there. I think about black swan from time to time, and I realize that Nina isn't perfect - she was. She was her best when she loved dance. When she lived living . When she loved herself.

Stay yourself, stay curious

[hatiragulzaman]

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Barla ve. Çam dağı.

“Cahil bir toplum, özgür bırakılıp kendine seçim hakkı verilse dahi, hiçbir zaman özgür bir seçim yapamaz. Sadece seçim yaptığını zanneder. Cahil toplumla seçim yapmak, okuma yazma bilmeyen adama hangi kitabı okuyacağını sormak kadar ahmaklıktır. Böyle bir seçimle iktidara gelenler, düzenledikleri tiyatro ile halkın egemenliğini çalan zalim ve madrabaz hainlerdir.”

Friedrich Nietzsche.

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[mobstersandlobsters]

Philosophy and some favorite writing/quotes.

[kafkahardcore]

franz kafkas letters to melina 1920

[classicalliberalleague]

[prosofbeingdysfunctional]

[babie-janie]

what’s done for love is beyond good and evil

[comradewisdom]

The age loves the spirit; it loves and needs us, even if we should have to make clear to it that we are virtuosos of contempt; that every association with human beings makes us shudder slightly; that for all our mildness, patience, geniality, and politeness, we cannot persuade our nose to give up its prejudice against the proximity of a human being; that we love nature the less humanly it behaves, and art when it is the artist's escape from man, or the artist's mockery of man, or the artist's mockery of himself.

Nietzsche, The Gay Science #379

[bararn-hmt]

• من از اینکه به من دروغ گفتی ناراحت نیستم، از این ناراحتم که از این به بعد نمی توانم تو را باور کنم.

- نیچه

[notyourpikachu]

Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life,the idea came to him of what he called the love of your fate.' Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, 'This is what I need. It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportunity, a challenge. If you bring love to that moment- not discouragement-you will find the strength is there. Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life. What a privilege! This is when the spontaneity of your own nature will have a chance to flow.

Then, when looking back at your life, you will see that the moments which seemed to be great failures followed by Wreckage were the incidents that shaped the life you have now. You'll see that this is really true. Nothing can happen to you that is not positive. Even though it looks and feels at the moment like a negative crisis, it is not. The crisis throws you back, and when you are required to exhibit strength, it comes.

~Joseph Campbell