@cogito.rebellion: part 447 | the desire to be agreed with is the first thing to give up. nietzsche does not say the desire to agree with many is a logical error or a moral failing. he calls it bad taste. which means it is something more visceral, more aesthetic, more fundamental to character than a mistake in reasoning. the person who wants to agree with many has already oriented themselves toward the crowd before any thinking has taken place. they are not arriving at popular conclusions after honest inquiry. they are working backward from the popularity to find reasons to hold the position. the conclusion has been chosen for social reasons, and the argument is assembled after the fact to justify it. nietzsche spent his career watching this process operate across philosophy, religion, and culture. the ideas that become dominant are not, in his view, the ideas that are truest. they are the ideas that are most useful to the largest number of people, which is a different criterion entirely. to want agreement with many is therefore to want to be useful to the herd, which requires becoming the kind of thinker the herd can use. shedding this taste is not the same as contrarianism. the contrarian disagrees with many because they are invested in the performance of independence. nietzsche is pointing at something quieter: the simple withdrawal of the desire for mass agreement as a criterion. you think. you arrive somewhere. whether many agree turns out to be irrelevant information. who was nietzsche? friedrich nietzsche was born in röcken, prussia in 1844. beyond good and evil, published in 1886, was his sustained critique of past philosophy and an attempt to establish new values beyond the inherited moral framework of european culture. he considered it a necessary complement to thus spoke zarathustra. nietzsche suffered a mental collapse in 1889 and never recovered, dying in 1900. #nietzsche #philosophy #darkacademiaaesthetic #existentialism #dailyquotes

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