NICK LAND ON NIETZSCHES ÜBERMENSCH ETERNAL RECURRENCE Feat NICK LAND

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• 00:00:00

  The really scandalous thing about fascism is that it is basically the sole repository of the aesthetic in modern politics. So liberalism just completely seems in principle to avoid this thing. And communism has these clumsy sub-fascist aesthetics. And fascism, the more fascist it is, the more it actually…

• 00:11:13

  you know I could go as a whole the whole thing is quite interesting but but he's decided that matter and space a finite and the time is infinite which seems you know I could be what's the grounds of that like it's bit hard again like going from cant like why why would space and time and even substance are all just…

• 00:25:02

  And he says, look in infinite time, every possible, every possible permutation of reality happens. And the, and, and this extreme state of negative entropy isn't impossible. extreme dissolve in eternity so the I think that that final step is like very much Nietzsche in his scientific mechanistic mode you know I think…

• 00:41:04

  It's very much more of like a vibe than anything else. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's like the young guys, you know drunk off of the first war and all these you know, grievances that they have. And they just want to March on the fume. It's very irrational and very not unproductive at first. And I think…

• 00:51:36

  Just Darwinian naturalist. Like you can get to that without having to do any of the kind of critical stuff on Darwin that Nietzsche always insists on doing at some point. Like it's just like any evolutionary biologist would probably have to say, yeah, like there's nothing. We're a transitional biological form. Like…

• 01:04:51

  Yeah, I certainly see that. And, you know, obviously I have my own reservations. Perhaps I'm a Nietzschean cell, as they're saying, where I have to ride with Nietzsche contra the Anglo way for something. But I totally see where you're coming from. And, you know, it makes a lot of sense. And I have to do some thinking…

• 01:17:06

  This thing I've been talking about. I talked about it in my Essential Salts video. I don't know if you saw that part. But essentially, these different modes of being that are inauthentic or authentic. Egos. From the wellspring of the erotic. Will be sort of determined through VR porn. Like that's going…

• 01:25:38

  delivered by drone to your doorstep so thank you for watching and i'll see you in the next video legionaries for watching uh thanks for joining the the uh the famous nick land who who is who has become uh honorary i will say nick land is an honorary legate in the legion of new rome uh so we'll always have that…