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RE: The Scoop On Nietzsche #4: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Awe and an appreciation of beauty are truly essential to live well and gain inner strength (and outer strength). It's one of the little discussed but essential components to being truly happy (joy) rather than mere momentary happiness.
Ode to Joy isn't what I'm expressing here. Any intelligence will seek to know its bounds--some more safely than others. I imagine this is why many retract as they move forward in life to a permanent state of limit--now artificial means (even music, art, literature) will push this limit further and further--though there are limits here, and most are language based (this being the poet's job to break these musical programming chords and by means of shock therapy, burst the reader/hearer onto a new plane of Deluezian rhizome consciousness--see Nick Land)...any way
Limits are useful but usually advance or progress to some higher state. I'd totally agree that there are several crosswinds/headwinds pushing some boundaries forward, breaking others. People grow static, they lose interest in pushing their own self. But there's always an option to change that. Ode to Joy? Great song but not what I was referring to. A sense of Awe was essential to apprehending the concept of the Absolute...