nietzsche's thought is interesting in part because of how it flips manically between amoral pragmatic realism and pure aspirational idealism on a dime. taking a long view with a sort of philosophical darwinist lens it does seem like a low percentage play, but at least some of that is performative i think. he is trying to shake himself, and germany or europe more broadly, out of this stupor, sort of groping around in broad strokes for this injection of transcendent vigour he thinks we need. there is definitely an element of the self-aware provocateur in nietzsche i think.   it is interesting to think that goethe lived long enough to fully mature and to provide faust with his odyssean moment building dykes as an old man. i wonder what late nietzsche could have been, what would be left once his rage and ego mellowed.
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