Richard Spencer

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Christianity ("Plato for the people") is also equivocal in that its conception of rational forms lying behind the universe inspired the application of reason to the world—and ultimately the critical project that undermined Christianity itself. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Plato was a high-born Greek, who was mislead by the wicked and resentful Socrates; he thus stands as an equivocal figure. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Platonism and Christianity seek to find a world outside the world, and with Christians, an "afterlife"—which is, in fact, *death*. This is, ultimately, nihilism: the conscious choice (yes, "free will" reenters here...) to devalue the world, and ultimately end it. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

What Nietzsche found "problematic" in Plato and the Jews of the late Roman period—whose spirit reached its culmination in Christianity—is the rejection of this "logos" (will to power). — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

When we use words like "greatness," "power," "valor," or "virtue" we are glimpsing, through the imperfections of language, the spirit of the world itself—the "logos" (in Heraclitus's sense of the term). — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The world—and every entity in it—according to Nietzsche, is will to power. Every thing doesn't seek to "survive"; every thing is compelled to expand, dominate, grow—expend itself. Will to power is, in this way, the the opposite of mere survival. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

But mostly, Nietzsche wrote in this way because this "tragic inspiration" was his means of glimpsing, however imperfectly, the world outside our heads, that is, the world, beyond our subjectivity, beyond "time," "space," and "cause-and-effect." — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

This brings me back to the "inspirational" (or even "self-help") nature of Nietzsche's writings. On one level, he adopted this posture because...well...times are tough, life sucks, and we all need a little "chicken soup"—especially him! — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Still, we are left with a paradox: How do we "will" the enteral recurrence? Isn't "free will" just as much a mental illusion as "time" and "cause-and-effect"? Isn't it in our heads, not in the world? How would *willing* eternal return be effective anyway? — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The Gypsies cry when the sun is shining, knowing it must soon rain. You, too, should know that joy can only be experienced by willing the pain, again and again. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Here again, we see a little bit of Marianne in Friedrich. The truth is terrible—and to deny it is to live inauthentically— thus, we must embrace the tragedy! Will the eternal return! Right-ho! — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Nietzsche's injunction is that we not just accept eternal recurrence—but *will* that it be so. We must not only embrace the Overman, but, on some level, will everything that brought us to this impasse: The Last Man and our descent into nihilism included. Rinse and repeat. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Moreover, "time" as it was conceived through Christianity... Before => Beginning => Sin and Fall => Redemption => End ...has lost credibility. There are no "utopias" or historical "ends" of the universe, either of the Christian or Hegelian-Marxist variety. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

If the universe is "atemporal" and there are a finite amount of things in it, then everything—every sorry, pain, joy, triumph, and catastrophe—will recur endlessly. A loop in forward and reverse, where the beginning is the end, and death is life, and we are and are not. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Ultimately, the findings of quantum physics—that electrons are and are not at the same time—shouldn't surprise us. Time, space, and cause-and-effect are *our* devices—*our* all-too-human limitations—and we should not expect the world to comply with them. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

The universe is "enteral" in the sense that it is outside the delineation of time. "Time" is in your head, not in the world. It is part of the subject; an *a priori* category through which perception is possible. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

According to Karl Löwith (if I remember correctly), Nietzsche sought to enroll at the University of Vienna to definitely prove this teaching mathematically. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

There is, however, a "flip side" to Nietzsche's teaching in his mature period (GS, BGE, TSZ). For Zarathustra comes down from the mountaintop to teach yet another terrible truth—more terrible, in fact, than the "death of God": The Eternal Recurrence of the Same. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Yes, it's Nietzsche, so it's all rather shocking to middle-class ears. But again, it's not wrong, exactly, to see a bit of Marianne Williamson in such pronouncements. It is "self-help," "beautiful lies," the overcoming of doubt, indecision, and despair. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Those capable of leaping over this impasse are the Overmen. And according to Nietzsche's notes, this would involve consciously breeding superior beings, who would no longer take the name "human." — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Nietzsche's solution, imagistically offered, is to view the collapse of Western civilization—and your own resultant emotional destress—as bringing us into a world of new horizons. An opportunity for creativity and artistry...or great terror and despair. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

Nietzsche demands that you face the truth of the "death of God": the loss of credibility of religion, philosophy, and morality—institutions that have undergone such scrutiny that they can no longer stand. Don't deny it. The first step is admitting that we have a problem! — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

It's not wrong—not entirely—to read Nietzsche as the ultimate "self-help guru," on an individual and group level. "Chicken soup for the soul writ large," as it were. — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

@Indian_Bronson You’re basically longing for “dead ball” era baseball. Babe Ruth was, probably, the greatest athlete of the 20th century. He completely changed the game. He was hitting home runs, with a “dead” (less rubberized) baseball, in parks with 500 ft. Centerfield walls. No going back! — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @KirkegaardEmil: Chad Biden for president? https://t.co/4kseQNd4gW — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @MarkBrahmin: Europe is trapped. And America has trapped it. America will also free it. For he who lives closest to the dragon is duty… — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @ggreenwald: If Biden wins, that's going to be the power structure: a Democratic Party fully united with neocons, Bush/Cheney operatives… — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

First Rule of Fight Club — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @LionBlogosphere: Trump's porous travel ban on China did absolutely nothing to prevent Covid-19 in the U.S. because all we did afterward… — PolitiTweet.org

Richard Spencer @RichardBSpencer

RT @ggreenwald: Even with Trump gone, Dems and their media outlets are going to keep centering/inflating the threat of Fascism and Right-Wi… — PolitiTweet.org