Nietzsche and Madness - A Descent into the Depths

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  • @academyofideas
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    • @ofuel8037
      @ofuel8037 Před 3 lety +1

      Cool

    • @albertoanacletti7817
      @albertoanacletti7817 Před 3 lety +2

      Dude...you people are God ..you people would be God to me !I dont know where or how you people get this stuff ...but i found a light in the darkness with your channel ...or as Carl Jung put it ..."shadow work is simply making the unconcious concious "...in my words "everythings ok its ok to be human "

    • @albertoanacletti7817
      @albertoanacletti7817 Před 3 lety +2

      Or as the bible puts it ..jesus went to hell and made it out!!

    • @albertoanacletti7817
      @albertoanacletti7817 Před 3 lety +1

      The underworld ..that charlie manson talked about ..the descent into madness

  • @kevinrevs4929
    @kevinrevs4929 Před 3 lety +381

    "No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
    -C.G. Jung

    • @joellovell6240
      @joellovell6240 Před 3 lety +11

      taken from Nietzhse. From the Geneology.

    • @Shadow77999
      @Shadow77999 Před 3 lety +1

      Wow

    • @joellovell6240
      @joellovell6240 Před 3 lety +6

      oh. my b. its actually from Zarathustra, but he expresses the same idea in more of an explanatory way in the Genealogy.

    • @genkiferal7178
      @genkiferal7178 Před 3 lety +8

      "The roots of The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (the tree in the garden of Eden) are intertwined."

    • @m.hughes8605
      @m.hughes8605 Před 3 lety +1

      @@genkiferal7178 If it were not so intertwined, esp within ourselves, then how are we mere mortals to ever apprehend it.

  • @Tiberon674
    @Tiberon674 Před 3 lety +291

    "I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity."
    ~Edgar Allan Poe

    • @ck111undignified2
      @ck111undignified2 Před 3 lety +3

      😁

    • @TheREDSKAL
      @TheREDSKAL Před 3 lety +2

      Good one

    • @TaunellE
      @TaunellE Před 3 lety +2

      I like that. Staying with the dark theme. Awesome quote. 🕯🖤

    • @c.galindo9639
      @c.galindo9639 Před 3 lety +6

      It is suffering that causes some to be greatly inspired and gives them great endurance

    • @Shadow77999
      @Shadow77999 Před 3 lety +2

      I wonder in what context he meant by this

  • @siddalingasedamkar1564
    @siddalingasedamkar1564 Před 3 lety +238

    And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
    Friedrich Nietzsche

    • @joself3602
      @joself3602 Před 3 lety +16

      Hate to break it to you but Nietzsche did not say that. It probably originates from the French writer Germaine de Staël. Still is a great quote tho

    • @SuperBhavanishankar
      @SuperBhavanishankar Před 3 lety +1

      @@joself3602 are you sure? I googled it, every source is telling it's by Nietzche, my friend.

    • @joself3602
      @joself3602 Před 3 lety +2

      @@SuperBhavanishankar the problem is that non of the sources mention where they found the quote and I haven’t found anyone who could point to a book/letter/note from which it originates from.

    • @shepherdoffire9263
      @shepherdoffire9263 Před 3 lety +2

      @@SuperBhavanishankar it is not by Nietzsche.

    • @shepherdoffire9263
      @shepherdoffire9263 Před 3 lety +2

      @@SuperBhavanishankar no existing proof of him EVER saying or writing that.

  • @rogerpetronius
    @rogerpetronius Před 3 lety +1076

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    • @hoshiref
      @hoshiref Před 3 lety +5

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    • @chriswilson8734
      @chriswilson8734 Před 3 lety +8

      Definitely my favourite channel.

    • @TaunellE
      @TaunellE Před 3 lety +3

      Very true 👏

    • @TaunellE
      @TaunellE Před 3 lety +3

      @@chriswilson8734 Definitely. ♥️

    • @virgilioblanco5374
      @virgilioblanco5374 Před 3 lety

      More like YT being gracious to let us know the "learning" haters MAD enough to comment, as in, "ignorance" to spew it ALL over.

  • @ahmarcamacho8404
    @ahmarcamacho8404 Před 3 lety +137

    My man Nietzsche was too metal for his own good, RIP to that thinking lad.

    • @readandreflect8045
      @readandreflect8045 Před 3 lety +10

      I like to think of him as the forerunner to heavy metal

    • @SuperBhavanishankar
      @SuperBhavanishankar Před 3 lety

      ❤️

    • @fonainfinity5964
      @fonainfinity5964 Před 3 lety

      Hello Ahmar, what do you mean by "too metal for his own good" Can you elaborate on that.

    • @ahmarcamacho8404
      @ahmarcamacho8404 Před 3 lety +7

      @@fonainfinity5964 In that, Nietzcshe committed so completely to his pursuits in thought. To delve so deep in the realm of thinking is a brutal and arguably horrific endeavor. Akin to watching an animal being brutal disemboweled in nature, its "metal".

  • @Dacademeca
    @Dacademeca Před 3 lety +504

    To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."
    - Friedrich Nietzsche

    • @Enmanuel_V6
      @Enmanuel_V6 Před 3 lety +9

      I’ve found meaning and I see now that the only 2 constants are death and pain

    • @palecurve
      @palecurve Před 3 lety +5

      My favourite quote of his, let alone of all time. It is what fuels my day to day grind.

    • @hoodieap2858
      @hoodieap2858 Před 3 lety +5

      There is no meaning though I can find it’s just useless

    • @Pantherazure
      @Pantherazure Před 3 lety +6

      Just an observation: The ancient religion of Buddhism also begins with acknowledging this fact of suffering but proceeds to find a way to allay suffering for all and ends up giving the virtues of Knowledge, Harmony and Amity for everyone's well being.
      Mr. Nietzsche on the other hand is pessimistic about this problem and seeks to create mutual enemies out of all people, dividing them into types having master and slave morality

    • @DrOtto-sx7cp
      @DrOtto-sx7cp Před 3 lety +1

      @@Pantherazure ... samsara indeed ! 😏
      0m mani padme hung 🙏🌹

  • @Jonigor
    @Jonigor Před 3 lety +725

    Maybe for a philosopher, going mad would be the equivalent of a rapper going to jail to push some record sales. 😂

    • @JohnC-iv8jo
      @JohnC-iv8jo Před 3 lety +26

      ye but surely his magnificent mustache would have sported some kind of grill, if that where the case

    • @nobodymatters3294
      @nobodymatters3294 Před 3 lety +5

      🤘😉

    • @seperfecto6677
      @seperfecto6677 Před 3 lety +2

      Life is of paradoxical nature paradox , it’s hard but just deal with it

    • @shrilltiger5027
      @shrilltiger5027 Před 3 lety +7

      About the same goes with artist such as painter

    • @MrTartuVaim
      @MrTartuVaim Před 3 lety +7

      Or for poet to die young

  • @maisarahmonier2256
    @maisarahmonier2256 Před 3 lety +221

    When he said " it hurts me frightfully that in these 15 years not one single person has discovered me, has needed me, has liked me" i was so damn upset that i couldn't just hug the man, goddamn how smart he was and how saving he is to brilliant minds, i can't believe someone like this felt so deeply a lack of love, it burns me to think about this, he died thinking he's alone...

    • @erwinwoodedge4885
      @erwinwoodedge4885 Před 3 lety +10

      He fell in love only once (with the much younger Lou Andres-Salomé), and he fell hard when the love wasn't reciprocated. Ever since that moment, his romantic heart was crashed.

    • @kookiecastro8452
      @kookiecastro8452 Před 3 lety

      @Skyhawk Apodaca bushido?

    • @johnm.5913
      @johnm.5913 Před 3 lety +1

      Many of us do.

    • @PolishBehemoth
      @PolishBehemoth Před 2 lety +3

      I smacked my head and got teary eyed when I saw that. Why couldnt somebody give the man a hug? Damn thos people around him. But he was visited. Y people at the hospital.

    • @michaelb3608
      @michaelb3608 Před 2 lety

      Perhaps he meant that the real self transcends beyond what others are capable of seeing? Just perhaps.

  • @siddalingasedamkar1564
    @siddalingasedamkar1564 Před 3 lety +78

    In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (uttered before he himself went insane)

    • @jeevajyothis3785
      @jeevajyothis3785 Před 3 lety +1

      Love that quote

    • @siddalingasedamkar1564
      @siddalingasedamkar1564 Před 3 lety +4

      @@jeevajyothis3785 it's ironic how he himself went insane in the end!

    • @chicxulub2947
      @chicxulub2947 Před 2 lety +2

      @@siddalingasedamkar1564 But that was exactly was he was looking for! After learning that everybody is insane there is nowhere else to go in his search and pursuit of truth.

  • @clayburris2757
    @clayburris2757 Před 3 lety +61

    Youre never naked when you have a mustache like that...even when playing the piano...

  • @kvimik
    @kvimik Před 3 lety +293

    What a pleasure it has been to have followed your channel through the years. Allow me to express my utmost gratitude for your contribution to enrich all of our lives. To my fellow seekers of truth, within and without, I salute you. May your courage triumph over you doubt, and may all pains and difficulties be transformed into strength and vitality

  • @wildbodies8501
    @wildbodies8501 Před 3 lety +259

    There is a false saying: “How can someone who can’t save himself save others?” Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?

    • @mysteryjunkie9808
      @mysteryjunkie9808 Před 3 lety +12

      That’s deep buddy it’s true everyone is unique just like their problems

    • @eminbedir6247
      @eminbedir6247 Před 3 lety +5

      @@mysteryjunkie9808 Problems of those who are ignorant about themselves and the world are as simple as their mind.

    • @dharmabum1111
      @dharmabum1111 Před 3 lety +7

      My favorite Nietzsche quote. So relevant to a relationship I've been in, focused on our mental health.

    • @wynnschaible
      @wynnschaible Před 3 lety +1

      But that 'false saying' is precisely the one the Pharisees flung at Jesus as he hung on the cross. What might the self-described Antichrist have said to that?

    • @Wisenfrosty
      @Wisenfrosty Před 3 lety +6

      Not sure if I agree with this. As someone who struggles with addictions and depression I do go out of my way to make sure other people won't hurt or destroy themselves because of ignorance and stupidity.

  • @jeevajyothis3785
    @jeevajyothis3785 Před 3 lety +202

    As someone who has been fascinated by Nietzsche's philosophy since teenage years, thanks a lot for this video

    • @fishercat7315
      @fishercat7315 Před 3 lety +8

      @Brendon Kennedy yes he can -Kafka

    • @nanetteparratto-wagner1127
      @nanetteparratto-wagner1127 Před 3 lety +10

      God is dead. - Nietzsche
      Nietzsche is dead. - God

    • @jacquiee.2695
      @jacquiee.2695 Před 3 lety

      🙂
      .

    • @yomama847
      @yomama847 Před 3 lety +3

      As a man with freckles, hair, and cowboy boots thank you for this comment.

    • @mrsorg87
      @mrsorg87 Před 3 lety +5

      @@nanetteparratto-wagner1127 you would think christians who devouted their entire existence to a book made of metaphors, tales and myths would appreciate the symbology of the phrase "God is dead" and it's explanation. Yet they prefer to quote it as a literal statement. Like a catchy cereal tv ad.

  • @Dacademeca
    @Dacademeca Před 3 lety +237

    "Without music, life would be a mistake."
    - Friedrich Nietzsche

    • @letuswrap
      @letuswrap Před 3 lety +4

      Love that

    • @kingwinter2024
      @kingwinter2024 Před 3 lety +2

      Are you just trying to get likes by multiposting quotes?

    • @Dacademeca
      @Dacademeca Před 3 lety +9

      @@kingwinter2024 no, who cares about.likes. they are rly attificial.i just want to help ppl with these quotes on the subject. :)

    • @kingwinter2024
      @kingwinter2024 Před 3 lety +5

      @@Dacademeca "Who cares for the likes". Yeah, right, man. I'm sure. Nobody cares about 'likes' on social media platforms.

    • @martinholmes3305
      @martinholmes3305 Před 3 lety +1

      Do birds sing music?

  • @jeevajyothis3785
    @jeevajyothis3785 Před 3 lety +126

    I guess madness is an everpresent cloud hanging over everyone who dare to tread on the dark domains of philosophy

    • @SuperBhavanishankar
      @SuperBhavanishankar Před 3 lety +1

      wow nicely put!

    • @SuperBhavanishankar
      @SuperBhavanishankar Před 3 lety +6

      But they are not mad. They are normally mad. We are abnormally sane.

    • @jeevajyothis3785
      @jeevajyothis3785 Před 3 lety +5

      @@SuperBhavanishankar Abnormally sane. I like that. After all who gets to decide the boundaries of sanity...

    • @lunkerjunkie
      @lunkerjunkie Před 3 lety +2

      How do we expect folks to act who have the fortitude to stare directly into their own suffering?

    • @whocaresudo
      @whocaresudo Před 2 lety +1

      I think those who go into subconcious.

  • @DopamineSchizo
    @DopamineSchizo Před 3 lety +49

    as a schizophrenic , my first psychosis my sister thought i was acting. its hard to believe people you know go mad or delusional

    • @JaxAndree
      @JaxAndree Před 3 lety +4

      My heart goes out to you and your family.
      I have a family member that suffers from schizophrenia and it sucks big time.
      Sending love your way.

    • @kewlenjo219
      @kewlenjo219 Před 3 lety +1

      My son seems to have delusions, some paranoia but otherwise seems normal. Like he can hold conversations, walk, etc and this started to happen because he smoked weed daily, heavily since 2018 due to being super depressed over a break up, job loss, loss of apartment and pandemic. He was fine until he ran out of weed. He also doesn't hear voices but just believes some weird stuff but at the same time the stuff he believes is trippy but exists-like astral planes, theoretical concepts from brain/computer interface ie Elon Musks neural link and concepts from theoretical physics. So I don't know if he is having a drug withdrawal, a drug induced psychosis, or just tripping from too much THC. I thought to be schizophrenic though you have to hear voices (hallucinations), delusions, can't string words together that make sense, have a weird gait? Since you are dealing with schizophrenia, what has worked to help you?

    • @willdehne1
      @willdehne1 Před 3 lety +1

      We have a close relative diagnosed schizophrenic. It was hell for all involved. Ultimately he committed suicide. Age ~40. He was treated but it did not save him sorry to say.

    • @gabesmith8331
      @gabesmith8331 Před 3 lety +3

      @@kewlenjo219 your son is not delusional. He just has a weeb for a parent. Any person would be a little screwed up from that.

    • @kewlenjo219
      @kewlenjo219 Před 3 lety

      @moon dust Actually, no. But I test as INFJ.

  • @KeepTheGates
    @KeepTheGates Před 3 lety +88

    Great minds seem to be the most susceptible to madness

    • @felixculpa9303
      @felixculpa9303 Před 3 lety +13

      Accurate...
      genius & madness goes hand in hand.

    • @MrJamesdryable
      @MrJamesdryable Před 3 lety +15

      Wrong. You only think that because they're the ones you hear about.

    • @mysteryjunkie9808
      @mysteryjunkie9808 Před 3 lety +1

      Curse of knowledge

    • @KingAmperios
      @KingAmperios Před 3 lety +2

      @brokenupbeat Yeah, most people agree that's the cause

    • @treesurgeon2441
      @treesurgeon2441 Před 3 lety +11

      With increased complexity in any system the potential accumulation of errors and their consequences multiply.

  • @puitsatheorie4995
    @puitsatheorie4995 Před 3 lety +40

    there is no in between in life ; either you use your full potential or not

    • @joshwhite5407
      @joshwhite5407 Před 3 lety

      ....Ok

    • @randomstuff1534
      @randomstuff1534 Před 3 lety +1

      I don't think I agree but thinking that makes you try doing the impossible

    • @Othello379
      @Othello379 Před 3 lety

      POV: You are always using your full potential no matter what 🤨

  • @TchekaTcheka
    @TchekaTcheka Před 3 lety +25

    Hearing this makes me wish to go back somehow, wrap my arms around him and give him a big hug. Powerful, tragic and emotional.

    • @chicxulub2947
      @chicxulub2947 Před 2 lety +2

      Give a hug on someone who is alive and needing it today. Emotions are too special to spend on imaginary friends.

    • @TchekaTcheka
      @TchekaTcheka Před 2 lety +1

      @@chicxulub2947 so true 💞 spread the love

  • @zorzeus
    @zorzeus Před 3 lety +45

    To be honest, I've waited for this for a long time.

  • @H3c171
    @H3c171 Před 3 lety +26

    What if... this treasure we all seek to achieve is the very madness itself?

    • @chicxulub2947
      @chicxulub2947 Před 2 lety +1

      To understand the madness in everybody to better mimic itself. Yeah. Totally. He saw he was gonna die alone if he didn't try to learn how to be one of the cattle. He died alone because it took him too long to figure it out. He pursued that so he could not die alone. Intelligence is against this whole business of madness because it is stupid. Stupidity is at the core and that will be the last thing a real intelligent person will look for.

    • @caseymariez
      @caseymariez Před rokem +2

      I was thinking this too, what if he achieved his lifelong aim, we just can't see it as positive bc of our conditioning.

  • @CoreyHunter
    @CoreyHunter Před 3 lety +16

    Truly a man who went his own way.

  • @FutureMindset
    @FutureMindset Před 3 lety +59

    The most challenging aspect of existence is facing the void of existence. We try and fill it with religion or constantly chase pleasure.
    It seems that we developed a level of self-awareness that made us question our own existence and ponder over it but we're also faced with the limits of our thinking and that leaves us confused and lost.

    • @Gallowglass7
      @Gallowglass7 Před 3 lety +5

      Indeed, well said.

    • @jeevajyothis3785
      @jeevajyothis3785 Před 3 lety +7

      Yes once we see the void as it is, we realize how fake everything else we build around it is

    • @Gallowglass7
      @Gallowglass7 Před 3 lety +7

      Look up Joshua Bach talking with Lex Fridman

    • @RadiaUmbra
      @RadiaUmbra Před 3 lety +5

      Yeah there's literally no in-between, humans are either questioning reality or reproducing (or procrastinating until they get to that point)

    • @kubasniak
      @kubasniak Před 3 lety +10

      You can fill it with God and not religion. I spent years staring at the void and as an atheist but I changed my ways and follow Christ without religious superficial stuff and hypocrisy. I fail a lot at being a good christian but I strive for it best I can in my ways. I probably wouldn't be here to write a comment if not God.

  • @maralfniqle5092
    @maralfniqle5092 Před 3 lety +49

    Everyone else thought him mad, he was just becoming a shaman. Sounds like he had a spiritual awakening and didn't want to live in the "world" anymore. It's also evident that the medical professionals of the day poisoned him good and proper

    • @simon1374
      @simon1374 Před 3 lety +9

      Nothing has changed in the medical profession.

    • @chicxulub2947
      @chicxulub2947 Před 2 lety

      @@simon1374 It began THAT WAY

    • @chicxulub2947
      @chicxulub2947 Před 2 lety

      @L94 And too good to let himself corrupt for... good!

  • @vneger2377
    @vneger2377 Před 3 lety +16

    I'm no psycologist or philosopher, but what I think happened is that he had a mental breakdown due to chronic pain, depression, stress and drugs and he never recovered.

    • @vneger2377
      @vneger2377 Před 3 lety +3

      @common SCIENCE he was a great mind, it's sad that we lost him before he could finish developing his philosophy.

    • @simonduvall1102
      @simonduvall1102 Před 3 lety

      He had syphilis which untreated causes psychosis. If you've read his works you can tell the stark contrast towards the end of his philosophical/academic career

    • @vneger2377
      @vneger2377 Před 3 lety

      @@simonduvall1102 yes that is the commonly accepted theory.

    • @badmen1550
      @badmen1550 Před 3 lety

      Yeah, I'm skeptical of any of the theories that say "hE wEnT tOo fArrr DoWn ThE rAbBit HoLe mAaaan...."
      In my opinion, you can never go too far. Of course it might mean that you get made to drink poison or crucified, but so what? At that point I'd want to leave too.

    • @vneger2377
      @vneger2377 Před 3 lety

      @@badmen1550 yup I never heard of someone that became insane by thinking alone, what I heard are people with really stressful jobs (world leaders, CEOs etc.) having a breakdown, getting hospitalized and then coming back better than before. For this reason, if you exclude an organic cause, I think the breakdown theory is the more credible.

  • @1214gooner
    @1214gooner Před 3 lety +5

    “The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.” -Chesterton

  • @shayneb3540
    @shayneb3540 Před 3 lety +25

    If I could say one thing to Friedrich Nietzsche, it would have to be:
    "I understand you."

    • @prithvirajdey5770
      @prithvirajdey5770 Před 3 lety +3

      He once saw a horse being beaten brutally. He rushed towards it and hugged it. Saying 'I understand you.'
      It's said that after this experience, he went insane...

    • @shayneb3540
      @shayneb3540 Před 3 lety +6

      @@prithvirajdey5770 It's also symbolic... The horse is a living, feeling, and thinking creature. The horse has a sense of self and a presence of mind about his life.
      The horse carries and serves the man who beats him and while he could stomp man to death if he wanted to, he doesn't.
      The horse can't communicate with the man in a way his small mind would understand. The horse understands something the man doesn't so he chooses to resist in order to preserve his freedom, and his life.
      All the man understands is the horse isn't listening to him so he beats him instead of trying to understand the horse like a compassionate and rational thinking person would.

    • @otaviorodrigues7970
      @otaviorodrigues7970 Před 3 lety +3

      @@shayneb3540 Man, i never thought this way. Amazing perspective on the subject. Considering this, maybe Nietzsche had a deeper connection with that horse than he did with anybody else he knew his entire lifetime. Sorry for any mistakes, i'm from Brazil.

    • @otaviorodrigues7970
      @otaviorodrigues7970 Před 3 lety +3

      @@shayneb3540 you also could say that the horse carries the burden that men can't, that men aren't strong enough to carry. Just like Nietzsche and his philosophy.

    • @shayneb3540
      @shayneb3540 Před 3 lety +1

      @@otaviorodrigues7970 No mistakes. I would say you're fluent enough to get by in any English speaking country.
      Yeah that's an interesting point too. The horse is stronger than the man in every which way possible. Not only does he carry a burden man can't handle, but his unwillingness to lash out in revenge raises some questions about what Nietzsche meant by "I understand you."
      Maybe Nietzsche saw the horse as something that is loyal, gentle, loving, and compassionate towards a creature that is not only weaker than him, but tragically disconnected with nature.. so much so that the horse willingly sacrifices his own freedom, dignity, and autonomy in order to live up to what he believes to be God's greater purpose.

  • @WeltgeistYT
    @WeltgeistYT Před 3 lety +8

    Wanted to make a video on exactly this subject, but you've done the subject justice. Great vid as always.

  • @gyulavinnai304
    @gyulavinnai304 Před 3 lety +16

    Suffering in my experience could be seen as the ultimate driving force on the path, which supposed to lead the human psyche into subjectively higher truths about the existence and oneself. The more the suffering, the potentially deeper and clearer the individual's soul is.

  • @pinksupremacy6076
    @pinksupremacy6076 Před 3 lety +15

    Thus spoke Zarathustra is one of my favorite books.

  • @logy650
    @logy650 Před 3 lety +8

    Few stories will ever hit me as heavily as Nietzsche’s has. Every time I hear it it’s like raking up old wounds.

    • @joeywantstoplay
      @joeywantstoplay Před 3 lety +2

      @GreatGallopingGulags
      I love your name bud. :) Your perception is astute. I offer this paltry expression to FN & to you if you have use of it, if not discard these words. I hope to help him heal in death, that he was unable to find in life. Feel free to join me in whatever way you see fit, if you choose to, maybe this small gesture can assist you in some way. It's all I have & I give it freely.
      This Titan Lived!
      This mortal man killed god/dog.
      We stand on the shoulders of this HUE-Man, so we can stand where we are, NOW!
      His courage was unmatched.
      His spirit was unwavering.
      Yet in his time, his society & surroundings drove him mad..... because this Titan was forced to compromise & ultimately bend to the will of the cowardly parasites that surround him. This magnificent tortured mind/soul of Friedrich Nietzsche, deserved better. Let us learn & rescue this great man from his pains, so we may give him that which he needed in life... as abundance in his death.....I offer my Support, Acknowledgement, Love & Appreciation.
      Rest In Peace, Good Sir, your bravery & feats will never be forgotten.
      I would have liked to be there for you in some way, to ease your burden, So you didn't feel so alone....I know that feeling too well.
      Thank you for helping me prepare for life & sacrificing, for all of us sinners..... that don't deserve your insights & gifts, but are richer because you didn't find peace.
      Friedrich, I send you Ease, Joy & Acceptance to heal from the scars you bear from this sick experiment, that is life.
      Let these wounds heal over, so they are no longer raw in any way.
      Become complete with ease, you earned it.

  • @eternaldoorman5228
    @eternaldoorman5228 Před 3 lety +26

    Another possibility is that he did in fact "find the philosopher's stone" and his subsequent psychological rebirth took the form of madness. This was possibly because of his relatively advanced state of knowledge compared with that of his peers which was already evident to many even if nobody could bring themselves to say it. Madness is never a property of an individual person, but a condition of the way society treats certain individuals. See the beautiful work of R.D.Laing on schizophrenia for more on this. Laing must have had lot to say about Nietzsche, ... This is another great video. Thank you!

  • @hawkarae
    @hawkarae Před 3 lety +9

    This channel has never once failed to stretch and educate me. Thank you.

  • @northeastslingshot1664
    @northeastslingshot1664 Před 3 lety +65

    I was introduced to Nietzsche thru a witty t-shirt in the 80's.
    "God is dead" Nietzsche
    "Nietzsche is dead" God

    • @arkansastrey9694
      @arkansastrey9694 Před 3 lety +4

      I want that tshirt

    • @heathermcdermott2171
      @heathermcdermott2171 Před 3 lety +1

      😉 he will figure it out eventually 🥰

    • @danielschaeffer1294
      @danielschaeffer1294 Před 3 lety +2

      That t-shirt should read “God is dead, but I’m not!”
      There’s another t-shirt that quotes Luis Bunuel. “Thank God I’m an atheist.”

    • @briangoodman1779
      @briangoodman1779 Před 3 lety +1

      I was introduced through the movie Cape Fear, when Max Cady went to the library to read Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

    • @Shadow77999
      @Shadow77999 Před 3 lety

      The king is dead, long live the queen

  • @craigfrober316
    @craigfrober316 Před 3 lety +3

    Your work over the years remains one of my favourite parts of the internet. Thanks for all that you do AoI.

  • @joleaneshmoleane8358
    @joleaneshmoleane8358 Před 3 lety +32

    Ahhhh. Madness. I’m almost there.

    • @felixculpa9303
      @felixculpa9303 Před 3 lety +7

      Join me... it absurdly fun here.

    • @henrykissenger9846
      @henrykissenger9846 Před 3 lety +1

      It's fun until they throw you in the urgent psychiatric center. Place blows. Had to go there twice now.

    • @kevinc721
      @kevinc721 Před 3 lety +3

      Hey, I hope all three of you are doing okay, and just want to say that if you ever need someone to reach out to, I’m here for you guys

    • @joleaneshmoleane8358
      @joleaneshmoleane8358 Před 3 lety

      @@kevinc721 what can you offer? I’m sincerely asking. What could you possibly do to help?

    • @kevinc721
      @kevinc721 Před 3 lety +4

      @@joleaneshmoleane8358 well, I’m not completely sure exactly as to what extent I can help, but I guess I just imagined that whatever it is that your going through and dealing with, would be easier to go through and deal with if you had someone who was understanding towards what you were dealing with, by your side. I get that that there’s a chance that might not mean much to you or seem helpful at all, but I just know from my own experience, when dealing with something similar to what I think you might be going through, it’s helpful to have people who understand and care about what your experiencing. So I guess I’m just trying to offer help, from what I know felt helpful to me, and I know other people might feel differently about that

  • @CodyBMcGuire
    @CodyBMcGuire Před 3 lety +12

    Haven't watched an upload in awhile. Still putting out bangers everytime.

  • @johnnyroycerichardsoniii3273

    Congrats on 1 million!! This channel has provided me with so much value, thank you incredibly!!

  • @Dan-ud8hz
    @Dan-ud8hz Před 2 lety +1

    “There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you're doing well.”
    R. Buckminster Fuller, Critical Path

  • @CJWolf-st1qi
    @CJWolf-st1qi Před 3 lety +9

    Congrats on 1M bruv! Well deserved!! :)

  • @Mako7eyes
    @Mako7eyes Před 2 lety +4

    A friend of a friend was once locked up in an asylum for 2 weeks, he had been admitted by the cops after they found him wandering around on a pretty strong trip. When he came back around and explained himself they completely believed him yet still had to hold him for 2 weeks.
    That and this remind me of that quote "The shaman delights in the same waters where the schizophrenic drowns"

  • @andredelacerdasantos4439
    @andredelacerdasantos4439 Před 3 lety +8

    For anybody interested in the topic of insanity, I would highly suggest listening to Beethoven's 29th piano sonata, especially considering Nietzsche was very fond of Beethoven and played the piano.

  • @Aklemvaeo
    @Aklemvaeo Před 3 lety +5

    I will always appreciate the dry humour in his writings. Don't fret, Freddy, people are still looking for the Lapis Philosophorum, and none of those who are looking think that it will be "fun" nor "easy." Whomever has undertaken the journey as well, I wish a solid Godspeed.

  • @mmarook4223
    @mmarook4223 Před 3 lety +8

    Neitzsche descent into the abyss is fascinating

    • @antispindr8613
      @antispindr8613 Před rokem

      Looking at much of his work, and many of his dark ideas, did he have that far to descend?

  • @Dionaea_floridensis
    @Dionaea_floridensis Před 3 lety +42

    I instantly click, like, and share whenever you upload

  • @manimaljack6368
    @manimaljack6368 Před 3 lety +1

    This is fantastic! I am really looking forward to the next part in this series.

  • @domagojbogdan22
    @domagojbogdan22 Před 3 lety +8

    I've had a dream some time ago, but I ponder on it every once in a while still trying to understand what it means. I don't remember the whole dream but the most important part went like so: I was in a big house, just roaming around (I have a feeling like it was my house, or I was looking into buying it or something like that, but it wasn't the house I actually live in). I went down to the basement, and there I found a room where there was a big black hole in the middle, it was so deep it was like looking into an abyss. And there were people gathered there, they took turns sort of bungee jumping into it. They acted all wierd and crazy, I don't think I was scared, just found everything a bit odd. And then I remember there was this old man with long grey beard cloked in white robes standing beside the deep black pit. I asked him what this was all about, and he said that these people were jumping into the abyss so they can heal their mental illnesses. Nothing much happened after that and I soon woke up, feeling like I figured out something really important, but still can't quite tell what it is.
    As I am interested in philosophy, most recently in Eastern philosophy, tradition and religion, I stumbled upon a Sadhguru video in which he talks about tantric yoga and the awakening of the Sahasrara, or the seventh chakra. If I remember correctly, he said that in theory and in practice there is no way to "move" consciousness from the 6th to 7th chakra, in other words it happens suddenly and it has to be done as sort of a leap of faith, there are no methods to do it. He also said that there is a very thin line between madness and enlightenment. Now, the man's integrity can be questioned of course, I just found it very interesting the way he described enlightenment as basically something that cannot be controlled voluntarily. Alan Watts also said that "awakening" happens when you are ready, not by your choice.
    More and more as I contemplate these questions and let my mind roam free, I feel that there is 'something' that is not intelligible to us, and that all these people are right in their own way. Maybe Nietzsche was finally liberated in a way by going mad (mad from our perspective at least). Maybe once we get a glimpse of that which is unintelligible we either become insane and lose all sense of self, or we manage to integrate it into our already established reality. To descend to the depths of ourselves we must already be mad, or we will become mad during the journey.
    Disclaimer: I am aware that dreams are heavily influenced by our day to day life and our thoughts, certainly my dream was a reflection of my thinking, but at that time I know I never thought about madness and it's connection with exploration of the mind. The ways of the subconscious are mysterious at best.
    Thank you for the amazing content!

    • @Simien.0
      @Simien.0 Před 2 lety +3

      You are right that something is mostly unintelligible by words, he realized he was the all experiencing itself as many, he even started going by the names of his passed lives, he gave all his "belongings" away too. He truly reached immortality and him being unplugged from the illusion of life looked like him going mad to everyone who were still unaware of their hidden selves.

    • @Simien.0
      @Simien.0 Před 2 lety +1

      This is a shared dream

  • @neraklh1017
    @neraklh1017 Před 3 lety +7

    I was wondering how I have not watched this Academy of Ideas video yet, then I saw this video was posted today, good stuff

  • @JaxAndree
    @JaxAndree Před 3 lety +4

    Sometimes life feels like teetering on a tightrope with madness on one side and enlightenment on the other...

  • @PhilosophyStudio
    @PhilosophyStudio Před 3 lety +2

    Another phenomenal work by Academy of Ideas! Love this channel

  • @somechrisguy
    @somechrisguy Před 3 lety

    This is incredible. One of your best ones yet. Can't wait for pt 2

  • @KenoshaKicker
    @KenoshaKicker Před 3 lety +11

    He who cannot command himself will be commanded.

  • @user-zp8kj2cl9g
    @user-zp8kj2cl9g Před 3 lety +5

    What a cliffhanger! Can't wait for the next video.

  • @pvtbx4198
    @pvtbx4198 Před 3 lety +1

    I'm always so excited to see a new video posted

  • @conradarnold5350
    @conradarnold5350 Před 3 lety

    This has been your best creation yet. I can’t wait for the next one .

  • @arieldebarros
    @arieldebarros Před 3 lety +3

    This was one of the most profound videos on this channel.

  • @sk8trryan1997
    @sk8trryan1997 Před 3 lety +12

    I didn’t know there was video footage of Nietzsche! How horrifying!

  • @-Gorbi-
    @-Gorbi- Před 3 lety +1

    Great video. Thanks for adding so much clarity to this topic

  • @user-gn5qt4hi9s
    @user-gn5qt4hi9s Před 3 lety +1

    This information evokes deep and noble thoughts. Thanks.

  • @milkyway4623
    @milkyway4623 Před 3 lety +54

    “Woman is at best, a cow” - Nietszche, Thus spoke Zarathustra 🤣

  • @BenjaminSussmann
    @BenjaminSussmann Před 3 lety +3

    Thank you

  • @AKGagliano
    @AKGagliano Před 3 lety

    This was so incredibly well done. Thank you so much.

  • @EB-ut1lj
    @EB-ut1lj Před 3 lety

    Perfect timing. Thank you

  • @benjamindover4337
    @benjamindover4337 Před 3 lety +37

    Frederick Nietzsche: The original horse whisperer.

  • @TheJudgeandtheJury
    @TheJudgeandtheJury Před 3 lety +6

    I’m very much interested in Nietzsche, great video.

  • @luxtigris
    @luxtigris Před rokem

    What a superb presentation! Thank you!

  • @wietse8987
    @wietse8987 Před 3 lety

    I just got beyond good and evil and now you upload this, simply amazing

  • @anshengwang4708
    @anshengwang4708 Před 3 lety +7

    Uncanny, I was just reading a bit of “Thus Spake Zarathustra” yesterday and wondered how did Nietzsche went insane, and found this video today, posted exactly...yesterday.

    • @billybifta3966
      @billybifta3966 Před 3 lety

      to be fair, the worms we call ''normal people'' would probably read zarathustra and conclude that the author was already ''insane''.

  • @lilacperspective
    @lilacperspective Před 3 lety +3

    Timeless Masterpiece!

  • @richardlong5928
    @richardlong5928 Před 3 lety

    This was wonderful. It struck me! As always, great work.

  • @jedjedjedjedjedjed
    @jedjedjedjedjedjed Před 3 lety

    Best philosophical content on CZcams! You're the best, dude! :)

  • @luckyday6356
    @luckyday6356 Před 3 lety +5

    Maybe madness was the treasure.

  • @merdas9058
    @merdas9058 Před 3 lety +7

    Nietzsche became Joker before Joker even existed maybe his madness was partly inspiration for dc villain Joker

  • @uberboyo
    @uberboyo Před 3 lety +1

    Brilliant job! I look forward to part 2!

  • @prabhdeepsingh5642
    @prabhdeepsingh5642 Před 3 lety

    I subscribed to this channel when it had < 100k subscribers and seeing it now at 1 million is a proof that if your words have power, people will gladly come and listen to you.

  • @JohnC-iv8jo
    @JohnC-iv8jo Před 3 lety +13

    maybe he found Schopenhauer to be correct and it was beyond bearable, due to holding the intellect to make it provable

  • @Gabsboy123
    @Gabsboy123 Před 3 lety +38

    Teacher: The test isn't that hard
    The test:
    _And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you_
    (a) Free
    (b) Mad

  • @truthisparamount8992
    @truthisparamount8992 Před 3 lety

    Love these videos. Thank you much.

  • @charlesallen9045
    @charlesallen9045 Před 3 lety +2

    I’m speechless... finally someone who feels the way I do

  • @Vanyx1000
    @Vanyx1000 Před 3 lety +3

    neat, looking forward to the next video!

  • @TheDreamDetective888
    @TheDreamDetective888 Před 3 lety

    Always appreciative to the Academy. Respect

  • @rejaneoliveira5019
    @rejaneoliveira5019 Před 3 lety

    Fantastic video. Looking forward to next one.

  • @globalnomad1221
    @globalnomad1221 Před 3 lety +4

    he was so far ahead of his time, he was unseen and unknowable....

    • @briangoodman1779
      @briangoodman1779 Před 3 lety

      Yep. He is the last great philosopher. Forget Heidegger, Sartre, Foucault etc.

  • @xeraph02
    @xeraph02 Před 3 lety +6

    I always thought that he intentionally made himself mad, if you read his last writings there are some cues of him playing with that idea.

  • @clickbaitcabaret8208
    @clickbaitcabaret8208 Před 2 lety

    This is a very compelling argument for Nietzsche's madness. Great job.

  • @Fae313
    @Fae313 Před 2 lety +1

    You are doing a real public service by creating this channel. Thank you, thank you, thank you 🙏

  • @mikethetraveler
    @mikethetraveler Před 3 lety +12

    Sound like the end result of an "ego" looking for love in the mind, and outside of the heart/Source.

  • @nachiketmirkar4653
    @nachiketmirkar4653 Před 3 lety +3

    Nietzsche is a warm blanket. ❤

    • @andrewgirvan3540
      @andrewgirvan3540 Před 3 lety +1

      I picture the scene from full metal jacket where private Pyle is tuned in with a nice warm blanket!

    • @nachiketmirkar4653
      @nachiketmirkar4653 Před 3 lety

      Private pyle remained dormant to his own weakness rather than overcoming it.

  • @TheFartman64
    @TheFartman64 Před 3 lety +2

    These videos are incredible

  • @fallinginside8509
    @fallinginside8509 Před 3 lety

    Very good my friend. Indeed continue this fruitful effort. You are developing minds. Thank you.

  • @vinomatt
    @vinomatt Před 3 lety +7

    You go looking for the Devil long enough, you just might find him.

    • @teresawarnke999
      @teresawarnke999 Před 2 lety

      But is the devil actually our enemy?
      Jesus said that the greatest of all commandments is to love one another. If he were here to reconcile man to God, even though men were evil; wouldn't he advocate the reconciliation of Satan to God, and therefore facilitating the same forgiveness?
      Christianity dictates that we are to fear and loathe Satan while preaching to us to love our enemy. Why?
      If I say I love Satan, I cannot be a true Christian?
      The Christian faith does not honor the man whose name they have plagiarized.
      When someone tells me how sinful and evil it is to say this. I thank Jesus for teaching me to turn the other cheek, shake the dirt off my shoes and not waste any more of myself in their presence.
      God is Love
      Love is always right, it's not an option it is energy.

    • @vinomatt
      @vinomatt Před 2 lety +1

      @@teresawarnke999 I agree, it’s an interesting contradiction. However I can’t claim to even begin to understand the nature of the cosmic relationship between Jehovah and Satan. Suffice it to say I don’t believe he’s eligible for reconciliation.

    • @teresawarnke999
      @teresawarnke999 Před 2 lety

      Some things we can never know definitively, but I think Satan is female and God's wife. She got Eve to prove to him that his creation was flawed. He believed that they were not until she tainted them and since she wrecked them she and her family had to go live with them and at the end of their project they will see who was right. But that is what is meant by His ways are wonderful, we wonder.

  • @Xisk77
    @Xisk77 Před 3 lety +43

    So in short, he has gone crazy from fully comprehending himself and the world to a degree people are afraid too. To not only experience and witness the full reality of our world to to also comprehend it beyond what most dare. Eventually he couldn't contain his laughter anymore because he was suffering so much. He is literally OG joker 😄

    • @Aklemvaeo
      @Aklemvaeo Před 3 lety +4

      That's a good take on it. Aside from him not willingly inflicting chaos on others.

    • @Xisk77
      @Xisk77 Před 3 lety +3

      @@CRM-114 you must be so much fun at parties hehe 😜

    • @Xisk77
      @Xisk77 Před 3 lety

      @@Aklemvaeo yeah, like if the Joker wasn't a murderous fuck up ya know?

    • @sonofclay
      @sonofclay Před 3 lety +4

      Kind of liking taking a lot of acid without any recourse to cannabis or even mushrooms.

    • @Xisk77
      @Xisk77 Před 3 lety +2

      @@sonofclay spot on mate 👌 but skip the acid too and just go straight to intravenous dmt 😆

  • @thenewwaydevil
    @thenewwaydevil Před 3 lety

    Loved this video. Can't wait for the remaining fragments next one

  • @DUduluDIruDu33
    @DUduluDIruDu33 Před 3 lety

    This is some beautiful and needed content!

  • @somethingyousaid5059
    @somethingyousaid5059 Před 3 lety +80

    As far as I'm concerned, the deeper the insight the closer the suicide.

    • @extra2ab
      @extra2ab Před 3 lety +8

      Don't take life seriously

    • @felixculpa9303
      @felixculpa9303 Před 3 lety +6

      The deeper the insight the closer to revelation.

    • @howdowedo215
      @howdowedo215 Před 3 lety +7

      This is a dangerous way to think and quite frankly untrue as well. Suicide is irrational and the result of mental illness, not something to be coveted.

    • @RadiaUmbra
      @RadiaUmbra Před 3 lety +12

      @@howdowedo215 Attributing everything to a "mental illness" is irrational as well, not everything is a condition, ffs.

    • @Aklemvaeo
      @Aklemvaeo Před 3 lety +3

      I think it may bring one to the idea of "checking out early" because such journeys almost always undermine the foundations that one has had their life built upon... all the original motivations, emotions, goals, drives, are all brought into question. Quoted in the video itself - "burrowing into the foundations." It's not a fun task. If it were easy, everyone walking around would be a veritable Marcus Aurelius, but that is clearly not how it is.

  • @Dacademeca
    @Dacademeca Před 3 lety +19

    "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
    - Friedrich Nietzsche

    • @Bozejder
      @Bozejder Před 3 lety +6

      worst nietzsche quote ever

    • @Dacademeca
      @Dacademeca Před 3 lety +1

      @@Bozejder why do u think that is.

    • @monicathomas9075
      @monicathomas9075 Před 3 lety +2

      Survival mechanism quote...

    • @saphiregem1275
      @saphiregem1275 Před 3 lety +13

      Not always true. Major brain injury doesn't usually make you stronger.

    • @eminbedir6247
      @eminbedir6247 Před 3 lety +6

      I dont think that things that doesnt kill us makes us strong.Instead, They leaves us crippled. We think we are more durable than the past but it is just that we can not be crippled more. Once our hearts and minds have lost their function due to those that should have but not killed us. Now we are unable to love, trust and be honest.

  • @EvuLYT
    @EvuLYT Před 3 lety

    Beautiful. This one is a work of art.

  • @EJNGH
    @EJNGH Před 3 lety

    Every bit of this video was very touching, but I feel you derailed from the spirit of it with the last sentence, about faking madness. You can question whether or not it is madness (or both, finding it and going mad in his tragic case), but saying faking it feels so "Unnietzschean". In either case, what we can witness for sure, is a terrifying consequence of a genuine exploration of the depths of the unconsciousness.

  • @vulnerablegrowth3774
    @vulnerablegrowth3774 Před 3 lety +37

    I’ve always been resistant to the theory that he lost himself in the depths of his mind. It’s too attractive as a reason. In other words, it makes for such a great story that people are willing to put too much weight on it. Syphilis is much less interesting as a story.
    Even Jung was essentially pointing out that Nietzsche’s descent was the cause of his breakdown. Why? Because Jung himself was afraid that he would end up in a similar place and so he explained that he was better than Nietzsche and would not suffer the same fate.
    I’m not saying there is not merit to the argument, just that people might be too quick to jump on it because it makes for a more interesting explanation.

    • @CaptainBohnenbrot
      @CaptainBohnenbrot Před 3 lety +4

      I completely agree. Nietzsche's philosophy and he as a person are painfully overromanticized. And to be honest, this channel is doing the same thing, too.

    • @bl4ckmagic345
      @bl4ckmagic345 Před 3 lety

      Vulnerable Growth sounds like a book written by The Last Man

    • @Berserkism
      @Berserkism Před 3 lety +2

      Sounds like he had Kuru or some such TSE. Would explain his father's "brain inflammation" death and thus his son's predisposition to the same, or perhaps direct contraction from his father.

    • @vulnerablegrowth3774
      @vulnerablegrowth3774 Před 3 lety +5

      Just to be clear, I’m a big fan of Nietzsche. He’s one of the few philosophers I actually admire. But because I admire him doesn’t mean I have to romanticize his death.

    • @KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH
      @KathleenMcCormickLCSWMPH Před 3 lety +1

      I agree syphilis is a much less romantic reason for his madness but is a better explanation. Having worked in mental health myself I would say that, in my experience, a psychotic break after one has passed through their 20s usually has an organic cause.