Nietzsche and the Nazis (Was Re: aesthetics)

[Gordon Fitch]

Gordon:
> >> >Misreading is fruitful, it gives energy, it produces
> >> >progeny.  That which can't be misread is terminally fixed,
> >> >dead.  Hence the danger in misreading -- Jesus can lead to
> >> >Torquemada and Pius XI.  But also the opportunity, without
> >> >which we might as well not read at all, but find a nice
> >> >warm cave, and stay in it forever.

Justin Schwartz:
>>> Sounds like Heidegger's theory of interpretation . . . or Nietzsche's,
>>> except N denies that there was ever a correct interpretation to start 
>> with.

Gordon:
> >Heh -- another Nazi.  And I like "animal rights", and "the
> >environment", too.

Justin Schwartz:
> "Another" Nazi? Who was the first one?

Come now, you know that Brother Fred has been tainted.  In
this Vale of Tears, only the hardest, smoothest, tiniest
soul can be unbesmirched.

-- Gordon


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