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I can relate to this. My first 20 years of life were an unmitigated hell. My mother was a psychopath and my suffering made her happy. I was starved, neglected and abused to a ridiculous degree. I stole to buy food to keep myself and my sister from starving to death. Pets got murdered and gaslighting was just how she communicated. I learned what shower gel was or how often one washes hair or what the difference was between shampoo and conditioner from a romantic partner at age 25, I usually wore the same clothes for 6 months on end without them getting washed. same for things like bedding. CPS got involved a few times but never did anything. The next 20 years I lived on my own and all my chronic illnesses started surfacing. I was used to just sucking it up and ignoring it, so having invisible illnesses was not great, with doctors telling me it was in my head. That there was actual stuff that was in my head, such as PTSD, autism and dissociation was also unhelpful. Eventually my actual physical illnesses got serious enough that the doctors started looking in earnest again and I got Diagnosed with a genetic connective tissue disorder at age 35, and with about another dozen other rare diseases. I spent the next 5 years in court rooms suing everyone from the city to my insurance company to get the stuff i needed to survive and live on my own. Now I'm 41. I'm wheelchair bound, in constant and debilitating chronic pain (I take morphine so I don't go into shock) and chronic fatigue keeps me bedridden most of the day for most days. Sometimes my digestive system quits on me and then I can't eat for 2-8 weeks. And yet, this is the best period of my life. I have never been more happy than I am now. I write books, and study stuff online. I live with my service dog and have meaningful relationships with people. I am mentally, the most healthy I have ever been, and even if my physical health is at it's lowest point and likely to only decline from here, at least it's getting acknowledged and I get access to care and medication. I'm honestly doing great in a set of circumstances that would drive most people to suicide. I know it's weird but I think Nietzsche was right that relief attained in the face of suffering is happiness. It unburdens the soul.
Thank you for your video ! I wonder if you ever heard of the marxist philosopher György Lukács and especially his very interesting writings on Nietzsche : Die Zerstörung der Vernunft (The Destruction of reason) I don’t know if they are available in English, I’ve partly read them in French but hopefully they are also available in other languages that you might be able to read because I would really like to know what you think about it and maybe they could even be a source of inspiration for you !
I've been chronically ill since age 11 and the notion that health means nothing to people who don't get sick is a better articulation of how systemic ableism works than I've seen in a lot of contemporary social justice literature.
@@algirdongas1 I'm fairly certain you misunderstood Alexander. You have also completely overlooked the part about "systemic ableism", and instead conflated the term with a microaggression between two individuals. The original statement of "health means nothing to people who don't get sick", of course refers to the quote: "For a person who never gets sick, health is an irrelevant concept, because such a person does not have to overcome themselves in order to attain health. Only the person who gets sick and then overcomes it really understands what health is." This relates to systemic ableism, by pointing out that because our governments are lead by people who are able bodied (in the sense that they are able to fully take care of themselves without any outside assistance - their quality of life is not significantly diminished on a regular basis), means that the powers that be are fundamentally unequipped to meaningfully aid their disabled citizens. The policymakers literally lack the experience and perspective required to write up effective legislation. That's if there's any wish to do so in the first place, as the able bodied are interested in the issues that plague the able bodied, majorities are interested in the issues that plague majorities. Saying that "being ill sucks" is, in fact, completely irrelevant to ableism in general, because being disabled is not "being ill". Being ill is exactly that - a temporary illness, a light damper on an otherwise hospital-free life, while being disabled is in a league of its own when it comes to disempowering and debilitating an individual. You are not ableist for stating that "being ill sucks". You would be ableist if you doubted that systemic ableism exists, even after being made aware of it.
@@arctomoldiness9312 If I aknowledge that it is better to be healthy then I am ableist, am I not? Nietzsche wrote a lot about the preconditions for ill health, namely things like Christianity, which is anti-health and anti-life at it's core. I think wanting to abolish "systemic ableism" is very Christian of you... I don't think the ruling elites suffer from being too able bodied, I think they are ill, too ill, just like the rest of us. They suffer from the same "bad air" and poisons (chemical and spiritual) that are so prevalent, which is why they cannot make decisions conducive to good health. They only address symptoms rather than the core cause. For example there's breakdown of traditional social structure, we are atomised and apart from our kin, so there's nobody to care for our old, sick and crippled. We have sick-care rather than healthcare. I think Nietzsche had the right idea about actual healthcare: fresh air and vigorous exercise.
This was a great video, and explained something very fundamental to Nietzsche’s entire project clearly. Nietzsche’s insight that the mind and its values are an extension of the body is what has drawn me to heavily to his work, and you conveyed this idea well. Cheers
I have struggled through most of Nietzche's works even though I have never been able to read them without crying. I have a hard time explaining why they affect me so viscerally. But this articulates some part of it. I spent a lot of my early years violently ill due to undiagnosed celiac disease, and this (along with emotional, physical, and sexual abuse during childhood) led me to develop OCD and severe body related phobias. I still fantasize about having no body, and I have almost starved several times because of the fear of eating. I want to see the value in what I have gone through. I want to live in the present, in that modest, divine gratitude that I see in Nietzche's work and that I occasionally experience when the fog of terror lifts and leaves mania in its wake. But the fear of my own body is still too overwhelming most of the time. I still have panic attacks and dissociation. I still can't read Nietzche without envying his "health" in terms of how he regards suffering (an ironic response to an author who has taught me so much about the follies of ressentiment). I will keep trying to learn this beautiful lesson. Maybe the learning is just never finished.
The adjective "fröhlich" in the German title "die fröhliche Wissenschaft" is actually cognate with the English word "frolic", so in this way we can understand it to mean something like 'frolicsome wisdom' or 'joyful science'. ("Wissenschaft" has a distant etymological relation to "wisdom" in English, but it's better translated more figuratively as "science" or "scholarly discipline") The German title is itself though a translation of a Provençal expression "gaia scienza" used to describe the art of poetry, which Nietzsche himself interpreted as "that unity of singer, knight, and free spirit."
Just writing up an Essay on Nietzsche, and was literally checking back on the Berserk vid a couple of hours ago and wondering when your next video would come out! Looks like my essay writing can wait a little longer! :D :)
This is really encouraging. I suffer from ever-present severe chronic back pain, which has somewhat derailed the academic track i foresaw for myself; I’m 24 and have had it for about 6 years. This video came out the same week I visited with the fourth physical therapist I’ve been to, and the treatment has already made a much bigger dent in my pain than anything I’ve tried hereto, and I’ve felt a real joy in living as a result, likely appreciating things more deeply than I would otherwise.
This video was impactful for me given my close friend suffers with a debilitating, chronic health condition. I haven't read Nietzsche, and so idk how much he wrote about Buddhism, but his thinking on perseverance and enrichment through suffering maps closely onto some concepts and encouraged frames of mind in Buddhism and mindful acceptance. Modern forms of psychotherapy for dealing with chronic pain, based on mindfulness, even promote specific mindsets like the one Nietzsche introspected on. I especially loved how you framed Nietzche's work on this in context of his very real life struggle in seeking meaning. Some of the emphasis on the wording of quotes brought Nietzche to life for me. It's clear you've immersed yourself in his point of view on this topic.
He appreciated and was influenced by Buddhist concepts that I think he got into through Schopenhauer, to the extent he called his own work 'Western Buddhism'. He knew sanskrit irc. But he ultimately rejected Buddhism as nihilistic and life denying. He definitely had a blinkered view of it as a 19th century European with his own worldview and limited access to works and translations, but is kind of true depending on how you interpret Buddhist sutras.
No one really knows that health is the most importamt thing that EXISTS.everyone takes it for granted.physical and mental disabiliti is literally HELL. When i can be normal again .man i cant imagine the heaven life will be
15:51 I love this video, but do not feel that you need to produce more videos more frequently. all your videos are really insightful and we do not mind waiting for the high quality.
As someone who lives with a chronic health condition. I've often look to Nietzsche as someone to help me through my dark days when pondering what life will be in the near future. The biography by Julian Young is fantastic.
I'm currently writing my MA thesis on Deleuze's concept of the body (primarily through his reading of Spinoza), and I was wondering how I should approach the Nietzschean influence. This video has opened up a clear path on how I can do some justice to the topic, especially since Deleuze also suffered from some debilitating illnesses at times. Thank you!
jsyk libertarianism is not coherent with leninism.. And Nietzsche is not coherent with Marx. Choose the former in both cases, choose the individual. For he is the fundamental unit of society.
@@mouwersor bro read his book. Nietzsche and Marx bring out the best in each other. Marx was concerned with the full and free development of every individual, and Nietzsche only disliked socialism because he associated it with christian monasticism, but that's not the socialism that Marx proposes. the argument that Marx is a collectivist and that Nietzsche is an individualist, is really reductionist, really common, and ceika unpacks it in his book
@@lettersfromanihilist9092 I'm not going to buy and read a whole book for that.. Why do you think Nietzsche is not best characterized as an individualist and Marx not as a collectivist? If anything is clear in Nietzsches philosophy is that he despises 'the herd' and his 'ultimate form of morality' is the one which the individual creates himself. Marx his ideas on the other hand also clearly put the collective (but only the proletariat) above all else. And the outcomes of his ideas are absolutely to the detriment of the happiness/freedom of the individual (see Ludwig von Mises his breakdown of socialism for more specific reasons why, or just look at the real-life experiments).
@@lettersfromanihilist9092 Nietzsche detested socialism not simply becuase it was Christian, but becuase of what Christianity, in his understanding, was a symptom of. That is, weak people, people who hate life, who needed to create and believe in a "beyond" to gain power over the here and now.Nieztsche was far more in support of castes than he ever could be made to be of socialism, anarchism, or even democracy. How is it possible to believe that Marx brings out the best in Nietzsche? Marx was a myopic humanist, blinded by the hope of amelioration, who wanted to destroy this world in hopes of another, one can imagine neitzsche saying. How does Marx avoid the priestly psychological disposition? To me it seems he merely secularized it in a liberal hegelian manner.
I have to say discovering “the gay science” really made me feel validated on my feelings about science class when I stumbled upon it when I was 11. I never read it but I still loved it
One again, amazing video ! You should read "the normal and the pathological" from the french philosopher Georges Canguilhem (friend of Foucault and so on). He is a nietzschean philosopher specialized in health and psychology.
Keep up the good work on Nietzsche! I picked up ''Marx, Nietzsche and Modernity'' recently after watching your old book recommendation videos. I gotta say, the Nietzsche parts are the hardest. Amazing book nonetheless, so everything that you do on the man helps me understand him!
I have terrible daily chronic pain. I've been having a bought of health since moving to a dryer climate. I heavily relate to Nietzsche here. God he describes it so well.
I loved the vid and it's style! Last week I was sick because of a nasty infection and I had quite a good time using that feeling to reflect on life. It was quite nice being able to apply some stoic mindset to embrace the pain without feeling broken. I also love the focus on having a more meaningful life instead of a less "painful" and more "pleasurable" one
Surprised no one in the comments made a link between how Schoepenhauer remarked how a person doesn't feel the health of his whole body as an example of his pessimistic view of existence, with Nietzche, who actually *COULD* feel the whole health of his body, having a more affirming view on life and health.
"Only someone who is continually suffering could invent such happiness" - Nietzsche "One must imagine Sisyphus happy" - Camus I wonder if there is a connection.
Andrew's connection is a more surface one, of how Nietzche's eternal recurrence is analagous to Sisyphus' eternal damnation, but I think the original comment here makes a novel connection, at least one I hadn't seen or thought of before. There absolutely is a connection there, and its interesting.
I'm going through a really hard time right now, just got diagnosed with clinical depression, I admitted to having feelings for one of my best friends and she recently cut me out of her life because of it. But this video helped, thank you.
Solidarity, friend. I genuinely hope you find some relief. Through a combination of therapy and medication I was lucky enough to find a semblance of normalcy, so I wish you the best on your journey. Though life may never become ideal, it can get better.
Your new video essay comes at a peculiarly pointed time for me, as I am just in the middle of (re)reading the Stefan Zweig book "Der Kampf mit dem Dämon: Hölderlin, Kleist, Nietzsche"(apparently the Nietzsche section was also released as its own book) and I am right on the chapter where he looks at him and his philosophy through the lens of his sicknesses and sufferings of the body, how it informed his philosophy and essentially probably brought forth some of his biggest concepts, especially during the final years of his "sane life". So I was wondering if you read that book or if your researches were seemingly independent from this Zweig book (which is sort of a romanticized biography on him) and you both arrived at essentially the same conclusion.
Extra data. Though Plato was jacked (there is a theory that Plato was nickname for his powerful omoplatus cause he participated in throwing disk), the modern dualists Descartes and Malebranche were sickly as fuck. Descartes was always seen as sick and pale and part of his main objective and reason of why he studied biology so much was to see if he could extend his own life; he even followed diets and shit. With Malebranche its worse: the guy had been born with a weird spine disease that gave him constant pain and sometimes bound him to his bed. I would say that it seems to be that they had different reactions to the same pain but in reality I think they lived in different contexts with differents of the body and mind/soul.
Concerning all the well-meaning comments here: Nietzsche's suffering was Nietzsche's; and not yours. He channeled it towards a philosophy free of the sickly gloom of pity, and so should all of you! Stop defining yourself by your lacks, stop glorifying weakness...
Thanks for this video, I had heard about Nietzsche’s health a while ago but hadn’t gotten around to looking into the topic myself. Also wanna say as someone who has struggled with mental health and now being trans, I am immensely glad to have reached a mindset similar to his and to now be studying him. The more I read, the more I find in common, and that which I don’t eventually clicks into place later.
I'd argue that Giambattista Vico, before Nietzsche and even Spinoza, was also a thinker of the body. Edward Said has a great essay on this specific topic, which I think is a worthwhile read.
Nietzsche has stood out to me since I first learned the barest about him and the more I learn the more strongly I feel this. There really is no joy or wonder or peace equal to that of feeling okay after a bad flare. Conciousness isn't guaranteed by life... you can live without the ability to have directionality or intentionality, but merely exist moment to moment, waiting, hoping that if you wait long enough you will be allowed to live again. While being thankful for these conditions is a stretch (to me), I am thankful for the appreciation for life that comes from it.
Love it, love your stuff. You manage to make it so compelling and in depth while making it so moving as well. Without the usual pyrotechnics and over-simplifying hooks that accompany typical philosophy videos for the layman. Also, went to an indie book shop in Hackney in London the other week and your book was there, was happy to see it! I was going to buy it but figured it'd go way over my head and should probably actually read a bit more Marx and Nietzsche first. Keep it up man..!
Could we say that Schopenhauer was also one of Nietzsche's predecessors who put his main focus on the body, in a somewhat similar fashion as Spinoza ? Schopenhauer in The World as Will and Representation repudiates the kantian notion of transcendental ego and removes the value on transcendental concepts; all concepts for him are practical in nature, they only relate to a living body inseparable from the world, as a part of it, and representing itself the world under general categories so that it can navigate the diversity of what can be sensed. Any notion that eludes the representing and represented body are categorical mistakes and don't actually denote anything, making the body, its senses, and its drives to survive the starting point and finish line of any metaphysical inquiry.
It would be interesting to see if people who are in chronic pain think differently of utilitarianism than people who haven't experienced much suffering. I have some back pain but nothing serious and I would consider myself a utilitarian, I wonder if experiencing large amounts of pain would make me more utilitarian or less. I could imagine, experiencing something really bad makes me more focused on suffering, more focused on making people happy or it might make me appreciate the positive sides of suffering and make me doubt utilitarianism.
I can't know where I fall, as it's really hard to actually compare inner worlds, but as someone who has suffered a lot mentally while generally being fine physically, I understand where Nietzsche is coming from, but it ultimately feels like a form of cope, because the opposite of it, which is what I believe, is that the suffering is and was both meaningless and unnecessary, which is kind of existentially horrifying. It's the universe dumping on you for no good reason and telling you to just hold the L. I just try to move forward with that reality, as I see it, in mind so as to make sure others experience this existential horror as little as possible.
Most people with some sort of disability who are aware of it despise utilitarian thought because it tends to be dismissive of their experiences. Not to mention how some utilitarians (like Singer) write about the disabled. I think something to be critical of with utilitarianism in regards to illness is that the measure of "pleasure" is a completely arbitrary selection of value, and the way we measure the value of people with longterm illness is based more on social expectation and interpretation of that illness rather than the lived experience. People with illness also have a lot of ideas on improving their own lives that is often lost on the assumption that their lives are not worth living because they're not pleasurable - you can see how this is a self affirming situation that could be changed by listening to the perspective of the ill
My father basically ruined his spine. In his advanced age, basically one of the disks in his back is now like chalk. He is waiting to die at this point. All he ever had to tell me was to work smart, not hard, because he ruined his body. If his experience was in any way meaningful to him, it was too late to extrapolate any meaning from it. He told me on a number of occasions that he wished he could go back and do it over again. So he certainly didn't find any utility in being in constant pain and having to be on opiates for it.
I find it very disingenuous to say that Nietzsche revolutionized philosophy by putting body over mind, when both french and german materialists have done so much earlier and much more consistently and systematically than Nietzsche. He wasn't even the progenitor of dietetics, which were present in german materialist circles as early as early 1850s. To say that between Spinoza and Nietzsche were practically no philosophers who regarded body more than the mind is therefore not only disingenuous, but simply wrong. Nor were Deleuze and Foucault the sole philosophers of body after Nietzsche either, nor is their approach any better than physicalists from the analytic tradition or the new ethicists of hedonism. I know you're not a history of philosophy channel, but at least don't make widely inaccurate claims when you do talk about it. Otherwise good video👍
He didn't go too far with calling the middle-ages 'the alcoholic poisoning of Europe'. And the enlightenment is associated with coffee, the 60's with psychedelics, etc. What sorts of conscious states we find ourselves in very much define our ideas.
I remember Adam Darski, the singer of the band Behemoth said that getting and recovering from blood cancer was one of the best things to happen to him.
Basically. The only reason why he is more talked about than Schopenhauer or other philosophers that realize just how bad the human condition really is, is because Nietzsche still leaves a golden stairway at the end, a hope for peace of mind and better days. People can read him and feel good about their struggle to survive, like it means something.
This is very interesting and each person will interpret their own suffering accordingly. I do however take issue with the broad ableist takeaways that suffering creates a heightened appreciation of not-suffering, and this having been extrapolated by culture to basically mean suffering affirms life, and that great art and great expression comes causally from suffering. Having been sick from birth I do not have a great appreciation of the times when I am not sick (perhaps that too is part of my sickness), and I spend a considerable amount of time wondering what my life would be like, and what the size and complexity of my creative output would be were I free from my multiple disabilities and conditions. I understand that the period after an intense hangover, or migraine, when even the simplest things can bring you the pleasure of being free from pain can make one wonder about how wonderful things are, but perhaps for the chronically ill, who simply await the next flare up of their condition, they don't quite feel this revelation so sharply, and just pass the time until things will be difficult again. At least, that is my experience.
I think what is interesting to point out is that there is no fundamentally universal disabled experience. For some that relief does make life worth living. For others it's unquestionable that there's a strong air of hopelessness. Even among the chronically ill the opinions of this are extremely wide and varying. Every experience is unique here. I think disability as a subject is always in conflict with itself as a result of important nuances like this force us to analyze disability from a perspective that reconsiders the idea of a disabled subject altogether and recognizing it emerges from a complex interaction between society, the body and labor. Either way I don't think analyzing a specific case study is necessarily ableist in of itself. It is a description of one person's experience. The problem I think stems more from how an overarching perspective of disability could be formed from a particular perspective, erasing nuance.
Ok , i mean no ableism , and no ill intentions : But would you take your life ? If not why ? Your illness is sadly and largely outside your control , Such there is little use in wondering what it could have been , There is only use in wondering what it could be , Why is your illness bearable ? Pain =/= enlightment or anything good most of the times , Recovery on the other hand , even temporary one , even the lightening of pain , that is the good stuff , And yeah i get it if you can't experience it fully , What i can say is are there some things that at least make you forget about your chronic illness at least for a short while ? Cause those things are the things that i guess you should do , But yeah i am a stranger on the internet i don't know you and i don't have chronic illness so i am terribly sorry if i was offensive , Have a nice day man
The main content is great, but the music does not really match well to support the content but rather redundant and annoying. I would prefer without music.
I don't like the idea that health can only be obtained through suffering. I believe it is good to have an ideal conception of health we aspire to that doesn't require suffering.
Do you say that as one who faces illness or no? I don't wish suffering on others and believe one can be happy and fufilled without great pain, but, there is a beauty and aliveness that really is only accessable with these kinds of experiences. There is no appreciation for the simplicity of being alive nor of the smallest of joys as is possible after regaining the ability to enjoy and actually exist. One can take that to romanticize or desire suffering, but it can also be taken as an affirmation of life and as a signal to those who don't live with illness to stop pitying us and honor our existence and perspective.
It’s more like the only way to attain a sincere appreciation for what it means to be healthy is by overcoming whatever comes to ail you, which something inevitably will regardless of your regimen. As such, you can become a “yes-sayer” for life, as N. Used to put it.
Working out require some level of suffering, so that we can grow our bodies, the avoidance of suffering is the denial of the nature of life. This suffering is part of what makes life beautiful
@@thetruth4654 all suffering is not the same. I actually enjoy the feeling of doms. There are forms of sore and pain that can register as good. The suffering of illness that brings the joy spoken of in this video is the kind that swallows you in it. That you are not but holding on, each moment to the next, waiting in hope that it will eventually end and you will be allowed to live again.
I don't think that criticizing overuse of alcohol as leading to poor philosophy is going too far. Alcoholism leads to both mental and physical health problems and it doesn't seem like a stretch to me that someone who is doing this to themself would come to mistaken philosophical views such as separating their goodness as minds from their goodness (or health) as bodies. If dualism is a disdain for the body, then it makes sense that someone who causes their body's ill health would turn to dualism to avoid guilt.
@@TheLaughingOut Nietzsche is right, but the point isn't alcoholism. Drug experiences and inebriation influence ones view of life and become a part of ones overall perception of the world. Alcohol - especially beer - tends to bring out states of mind that are among the worst, a mixture of aggression and sexuality combined with narcotic tunnel vision. This is made worse that for many, this is the only inebriated/ dyonysian state they know, while other states would bring about completely different aspects of reality. And on top of that, alcohol in our modern society is used in ways which amplify these states to their extremes - large crowds, loud music etc. If one were to drink two or three beers alone in a forest, the experience might bring about something useful, but which youth does that?
Tbh this makes Nietzsche's philosophy seem like a big cope. At least going by how it's presented at the end here. And I think that's ironic considering he criticizes other cope philosophies like stoicism for being delusional and what not. Does he say anything about this (the seeming double standard)? Also I think short videos are good.
@@Orgotheonemancult Most early moderns. And at least most of the philosophy of the ones mostly taught about. Take Descartes for instance. Not only did he not write much of anything noteworthy about ethics, but the entire project of his theoretical philosophy is essentially there to ground his science (well, insofar as those are separate at all). It’s not there to cope with anything.
@@Orgotheonemancult not necessarily. I don’t see how Kantian ethics is a cope, for example. But I assume Nietzsche/a Nietzschean would argue that any form of moral realism is a cope. Which is why I mentioned that Descartes didn’t write much on ethics.
If you think nietzsche’s philosphy is cope, you frankly don’t get it. “Cope” as a concept in and of itself presumes an a priori pessimism. To cope is to deal with the unfortunate aspects of life unhealthily. The coper soothes himself with cope to ease the pain of believing that his life, denied, is ultimately one of suffering. Nietzsche rejects this entirely. The Nietzschean knows that their life is ultimately good to them, affirming, in spite of whatever bad may come. The coper curses and gnashes his teeth at Nietzsche’s demon, while the Nietzschean praises it, having heard nothing more divine. If anything, Nietzsche sublates cope.
Happy birthday Marx! Also, very interesting video. I am currently reading the untimely meditiations again. They are such good works. As a history student I particularly like On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, but then again who doesn't?
Heath is participation in Purusha( Pure Form) by the human compound either by the quelling of disharmony or by accord to a predetermined ratio with respect to the subject of health. As in Ayurveda proper, the three qualities are derived from the combination of the five elements: vette from ether and air, pitha from fire and water, and kapha from water and earth. It is the participation of product Prakriti ( pure matter) which leads to health. In modern Greek the word for health is still "harmonikos"( or something) and disease ( stenaharmonikos or whatever). This arises from the Oder behind nature.
So maybe the reason why I can't enjoy the simplest things in life is I don't suffer enough, and this lack of suffering is hindering my appreciation of life, and this ungrateful outlook is causing me pain, making me suffer, which in turn is good, cuz long periods of suffering would make for a great recovery afterwards and allow me to experience happiness, so I just have to focus on how great the recovery is gonna feel when it happens and wait for it. I'm looking forward to it. I hope I can hold on to and make the most out of it when it comes. I hope it comes.
Y’all be sure to watch The Northman if you like the love of fate idea. I mean, watch The Northman is general, but it’s got so much in it that plays nicely with Nietzsche
It’s interesting to consider health in this way. Many of us for example take our metabolisms for granted and easily judge those who are obese. Never have we had to try to overcome or own biology in that way to lose weight. On top of this something like less than 10% of weight loss from dieting sticks long term. Nonetheless we tout healthy living as if that’ll even work