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Nietzsche on Psytrance Production
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Hypnotic Vice
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Posted : May 27, 2010 06:09:34
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Nietzsche is one of my favorite philosophers, and I found that a few of his passages from "Human, All Too Human" are quite relevant to writing psytrance, so I thought I'd share them with you all.
"Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can name great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired greatness, became ‘geniuses’ (as we put it), through qualities the lack of which no one who knew what they were would boast of: they all possessed that seriousness of the efficient workman which first learns to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; they allowed themselves time for it, because they took more pleasure in making the little secondary things well than in the effect of a dazzling whole. The recipe for becoming a good novelist, for example, is easy to give, but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook when one says ‘I do not have enough talent.’ One has only to make a hundred or so sketches for novels, none longer than two pages but of such distinctness that every word in them is necessary; one should write down anecdotes each day until one has learned how to give them a most pregnant and effective form; one should be tireless in collecting and describing human types and characters; one should above all relate things to others and listen to others relate, keeping one’s eyes and ears open for the effect produced on those present, one should travel like a landscape painter or costume designer; one should excerpt for oneself out of individual sciences everything that will produce an artistic effect when it is well described, one should finally, reflect on the motives of human actions, disdain no signpost to instruction about them and be a collector of these things day and night. One should continue in this many-sided exercise some ten years: what is then created in the workshop, however, will be fit to go out into the world. – What, however, do most people do? They begin, not with the parts, but with the whole. Perhaps they chance to strike a right note, excite attention and from then on strike worse and worse notes, for good, natural reasons. – Sometimes, when the character and intellect needed to formulate such a life-plan are lacking, fate and need take their place and lead the future master step by step through all the stipulations of his trade."
"It is a disadvantage for good ideas if they follow upon one another too quickly; they get in one another's way. - That is why the greatest artists and writers have always made abundant use of the mediocre."
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rob-ot
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Posted : May 27, 2010 12:30
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Its funny, I'm reading this as I'm listening to Kraftwerk "Man Machine"...somehow related in a way, Kraftwerk's masterpice is, to me, related to the Nietzschean Ubermensch...
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*eLliSDee*
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Posted : May 27, 2010 21:21
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I've read everything Nietzsche has ever written. even letters to his wife and Wagner published after his death, they should have kept it private.
even his less known work like 'daybreak'
all except 'human, all to human'.
He was against romanticism with emphasis on the whole rather then its parts.
but i think he just wanted to be a hard ass.
i do not agree with him on this
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loki
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Posted : May 28, 2010 03:35
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"i would believe only in a god who knows how to dance" - nietzsche on psytrance. period. |
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Uedi
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Posted : May 28, 2010 14:29
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On 2010-05-28 03:35, loki wrote:
"i would believe only in a god who knows how to dance" - nietzsche on psytrance. period.
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yes! lol
“Without music, life would be a mistake.... I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.”
Definitely the best quote ever!  |
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