The Isolation and Excellence of the Elite: Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil

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If you are curious about his true feelings about the masses and the crowds and democracy, well, not that we were very confused by the time we hit section 27, but boy, it just gets worse and worse. So, um, but several very important uh points raised here in various ways. And even though this seems weirdly divided, I think by the time we finish, I'll do 27, 28, 29, 30 because they do sort of form a group. They're kind of facets of the same argument in a way.

So he starts with it is difficult to be understood especially when one thinks and lives Gang Gangas rotoi like a like the Ganes river. So you know imagine a massive sprawling slowm moving you know a religious spiritual being that is the Ganes and when everybody else is either a frog or a a you know a turtle. This is this is his comparison like a tortoise or like a frog and one should be hardly grateful for the goodwill to some refinement of interpretation. So if you So again he's saying his mode of life of course it's him who is living like a river.

He's this huge slowm moving powerful spiritual epic being and he's surrounded by the slow and small who see the river from the outside and the fast and small who see the river from the outside. Right? So there's no there's no real compreh a frog does not comprehend the ganis. a tortoise does not comprehend the Ganes and so there's no it's just he says so it's very difficult for people to understand him because he's just coming at the world from such a different place which is in fact true now I don't know if this makes other people turtles and frogs but certainly he was coming from such a wildly different outlook that as we've discovered as we are experiencing that yeah no wonder it was difficult for him to be understood and if you read his letters or read his biographies what you'll find is he ...