{"id":11524,"date":"2010-06-11T20:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/11\/the-eternal-return-of-the-same-old-same-old\/"},"modified":"2010-06-11T20:01:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T20:01:43","slug":"the-eternal-return-of-the-same-old-same-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/11\/the-eternal-return-of-the-same-old-same-old\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eternal Return of the Same Old Same Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A redemption from transitoriness that consists of an endless repetition is no redemption at all.&#0160; An eternity of the same old crap is still crap.&#0160; It is actually worse than transient crap.&#0160; It is Crap Eternalized, nihilism on stilts.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Pious Nietzscheans will be shocked at my irreverence.&#0160; But wasn&#39;t it his irreverence that attracted their adolescent selves to him in the first place?<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Nietzsche would restore the &#39;weight&#39; to the world that the now absent God had supplied.&#0160; But his Eternal Recurrence is a makeshift not up to the task.&#0160; <\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">Fulminate as he does against old Plato, he himself is a Platonist: he takes the world&#39;s impermanence to argue its&#0160;unreality and unimportance. Which is why he posits Eternal Recurrence.&#0160; From within Becoming he would redeem Becoming.&#0160; But he should have seen that among the consequences of the death of God is not only the death of truth, but also the death of redemption.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A redemption from transitoriness that consists of an endless repetition is no redemption at all.&#0160; An eternity of the same old crap is still crap.&#0160; It is actually worse than transient crap.&#0160; It is Crap Eternalized, nihilism on stilts. Pious Nietzscheans will be shocked at my irreverence.&#0160; But wasn&#39;t it his irreverence that attracted their &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/11\/the-eternal-return-of-the-same-old-same-old\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Eternal Return of the Same Old Same Old&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nietzsche","category-soteriology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}