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aesthetics. Only the few are allowed to be free for Nietzsche, as most people he believe cannot ever become true artist.
However, Nietzsche’s aesthetics are not without danger. After World War II, Nietzsche’s philosophy was rehabilitated by existentialist, individualist, and leftist interpretations, notably through figures like Walter Kaufmann and Michel Foucault. These readings are perhaps the most familiar in the Anglo-American world today. Yet Nietzsche was also a racial eugenicist and a general racist, believing that those unable to overcome their weaknesses should perish. The aestheticization of the world, so central to Nietzsche’s thought, also forms the core of fascist ideology. It is no surprise, then, that many fascists drew inspiration from Nietzsche. In my opinion, their interpretation of Nietzsche is no more "wrong" or "right" than those of Kaufmann or Foucault.
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Why is Allah,Islam of such importance in Hindu festivals these days?
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BJP with an AI generated voice note
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This dumb-ass post on the day of Maharashtra State Elections.
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Majlis-e-Librandu - November 20, 2024
This is a place where you can discuss or share anything you want. What was the latest movie you watched? Did you read any books recently? Got any interesting news to share? Apolitical discussions, book/podcast/movie recommendations, memes and Q&A are also permitted.
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In Sambhal, UP petition was filed on Tuesday claiming the Sambhal Jama Masjid is a Devi Mandir converted into mosque by Babur, The court immediately heard the petition, accepted the petition and ordered survey and by evening the survey team reached the mosque, completed the survey.
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Just got called a commie. How do I begin?
I just got called a commie by some Sanghi. Idk much abt it. Where do I sign up? When will my commie card be delivered? Do I have to wear red chaddis for the rest of my life? Please guide.
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BJP’s advertisement from the Jharkhand elections.
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Is Crop Burning the main culprit of smog in India?
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The RSS legal front’s increasing hold over the judicial system
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Manipur's Shocking Reality, My Crazy Experience inside the Conflict
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Normalise pissing on bjp supporters who are worried about minorities in pak and Bangladesh
BJP supporters worried about minorities in Pakistan and Bangladesh, is equivalent to Hitler advocating for human rights like that is just load of bs
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Why Do Gulf States Stay Silent on Gaza?
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Socialism is Compatible with Religion. In fact, if you're religious, you SHOULD be a Socialist.
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the wilderness to live in isolation.
To be honest, this movie was a banger. No doubts. Incredible. Chef's kiss. This made my childhood awesome. But it would be unfair of me to exempt this movie of its sin- reestablishment Status Quo.
MewTwo, radicalized by their time with Dr. Fuji and Giovani, decided to take matters in their own tiny little three fingered hands, but then convinced to drop the act of revolution. Let me elaborate on why I think this propagates the status quo, but also why MewTwo ways for revolution were flawed by design.
MewTwo way of defiance was to make clones of the Pokémon of the trainers who were able to brave the storm and reach his gym, and then make the clones fight the originals. This goes against all the doctrines MewTwo (supposedly) stood up for. MewTwo didn't seem to fight for freeing Pokémon but rather replacing the ownership. To him. Their methods were wrong. It was unfair, ridiculous and ethically disingenuous of them to utilize the tactics of the oppressor in order to bring about meaningful change. MewTwo was in the wrong for doing so and it's unconscionable. This fails the test of optics. Hence, it became easy to paint MewTwo as the antagonist whose worldview was skewed and ways of reform being disagreeable. Narratively, this is really well written. But in isolation, it doesn't hold up.
But notwithstanding my disagreements with the narrative choice of characterizing MewTwo as an out-of-touch powerhouse, I still think there was a certain level of sympathy associated with MewTwo character that wasn't utilized. This wave of sympathy the audience resonated with was cheaply cut out of the climax, where there was no call to understand the position of Pokémon and the need for reforms in society.
The anecdote of Ash's loving relationship with Pikachu is leveraged in the story to prove that humans deserve to enslave Pokémon, and how trainers who harass and abuse their Pokémon are an exception. This negates whatever understanding we have of the systems and institutes of the canon world of Pokémon. A system where Pokémon are forced into gladiator style matches while the human master puppets their every move. Without the abolition of such tournaments, I refuse to call the canon Pokémon world civil by any means.
# Conclusion
MewTwo's ambitions were justified, methods were poorly thought of. But the sudden pivot towards pacificism due to some divine introspection was representative of conservative rhetoric. We have seen of the lib-con mainstream has pushed progressive and revolutionary left to the fringes and often called it "irrational". The character arch of MewTwo echoes this sentiment. Not only has the Pokémon franchise embedded itself with fascist subtexts, but when it had a chance for redeeming and rethinking their aforementioned subtexts, they fumbled the bag with it. I am disappointed.
Edit- Now that I think about it, MewTwo is sort of a class traitor on multiple fronts. Cool.
I won't deny that there is some added nuance to the Pokémon story with the addition of the Team Rocket trio, who in my opinion represent queer anarchism, but this tangent is for another day. For the sake of brevity, I have tried to avoid needless tangents.
But do I still love Pokémon and hold it dearly and tenderly to my nostalgic heart? FUCK YES!
Thanks for bearing with me. Ciao!
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a comment i wrote on nietzsche, fascism, marx and hegel. Thought this sub might enjoy it as i saw a post mentioning nietzsche and fascism few days ago
I think the fundamental difference between Arthur Schopenhauer and Hegel (subsequently Nietzsche and Marx) lies in the contrast between aesthetics and reason, as well as their approach to the problem of freedom.
Hegel adopted the categorical development of reason from Kant and his Critique of Pure Reason. For Kant, categories structure reality, but for Hegel, they are reality itself. Hegel believed this categorical development is embodied within reality, making philosophy's task not about discovering a world devoid of meaning, but the opposite: understanding a world saturated with meaning. Reality, for Hegel, is grounded in a fundamental reason—a billiard ball, for instance, does not explode randomly when hit by another. This reason works immanently within itself, becoming progressively more determined and free, a process showed in human history. For Hegel, freedom is not arbitrary nor valued merely because he feels like it; it is an inherent part of reality itself. This freedom can only be achived for Hegel in the state, not any type of state, but one which guarantees the right to freedom for everyone, as freedom exists in the community (spirit) for Hegel, and not just in mere individual.
Marx adopts Hegel’s idea that humans are fundamentally free and can be nothing but free. For Marx, too, all of history is humanity striving to realize itself and its potentialities. However, he adds his theories about technological progress, the relationship between the means of production and class, and the material conditions of society. While Hegel thought true freedom could be achieved within the state, Marx vehemently disagreed, believing that both the state and class structures must be abolished for humanity to attain true freedom. He argued that this would happen inevitably, driven by the contradictions within the current relations of production. By the way in Das Kapital, Marx’s analysis of capitalism shows Hegelian influence: he begins with a basic category (the commodity) and builds a conceptual edifice to reveal the contradictions inherent in capitalism.
Arthur Schopenhauer, on the other hand, focused on the aesthetic aspects of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, where space and time are representations of something more fundamental. Schopenhauer identified this underlying reality as the Will—something fundamentally irrational. For him, the best representation of the Will is not categorical; in fact, he largely dismisses Kant’s categories. Instead, the Will is best apprehended through intuition in space and time. Schopenhauer believed that great individuals were not armchair philosophers but artists, as artists best represent the Will in its Platonic forms in space and time, as they have inuition for space and time. Among them, musicians stand out because they express the Will in its purest form—through time. For Schopenhauer, art provides humanity’s only solace, momentarily liberating us from the blind striving of the Will and allowing us to appreciate pure beauty. In those moments, art makes us free.
Nietzsche takes this concept of the Will but radically reinterprets it. The Will to Power becomes Nietzsche’s central concept, his "Achilles’ heel," as he describes it in Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The Will is not merely a blind, starving drive for existence—it is a striving for power. The world does not seek mere survival; it seeks power, even at the cost of self-destruction. This frenzy, this madness—like Captain Ahab’s pursuit of Moby Dick—is, for Nietzsche, what makes life most vital and alive. For Nietzsche, too, it is the artist who best embodies this Will. The artist reveals the eternal becoming, the perpetual recurrence of that becoming, and encourages us to affirm the Will, becoming, and life itself. Existence is not affirmed in cold, logical reflection within a room but rather in the warm sun, among flowers and rivers. It is affirmed in Greek tragedy, in art, in
It’s 2024, almost 80 years since independence, and we’re celebrating that in Tikamgarh district, Madhya Pradesh, under Baldevgarh police station, a Dalit groom’s procession was finally taken out in a village- with cops standing guard.
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Our government. Their government.
Our government. Their government.
I feel equally sorry for all the right winger BJP fans who felt that once 'their' government was in power, both a litre of petrol and the US Dollar would become ₹35, China will vacate our land, Vivek Agnihotri will win an Oscar, Indian Ayurveda practitioners will be awarded the Nobel in medicine, the Indian passport will be the most powerful piece of paper in the world, and the American President will end his speeches with JSR from the very next day as I do for those leftist liberals who fervently believe that once 'their' government is in power, hate will stop, the media will be free, the police will protect you and side with the law, the farmers will stop killing themselves, children will be fed and educated, Naxals will enter a float in the Republic Day parade where they'll dress up in costumes and present their 'traditional dance form' for the visiting dignitary, Kasmiri terrorists will sing Sare Jahaan Se Achha in the UN, your Gujarati Jain neighbour will invite you for Iftaar, and the chief justice will be fair, fearless, and impartial not just in oration but in actual action & deeds.
The eternal truth is that throughout history, at least in India, only the rulers have changed. Never the rules. Why do you think your own times or generation should be the exception?
So, what's the solution? It is this: true democracy. In a true democracy, the citizens never stop asking questions. They never stop holding those in power accountable. They never stop demanding a better society. They don't let up on pushing their government to fulfill the promises they made. They never worship at the altar of their leader. They don't give their leaders a free pass. They don't behave like cultists. They don't give excuses on behalf of their leaders. They don't become sycophants and apologists for the government and its leaders. They don't rest. Regardless of who or which government or party is in power. Because in a true democracy, the citizens know that every politician, every elected leader, every bureaucrat, every government official is in fact in power, and the citizens are the opposition. The political landscape isn't divided into your party v/s my party, but all parties v/s Indians. The day we recognise that, India will win. When the politicians say, 'Ek hain to safe hain!' they mean them v/s us. We citizens must also internalise the slogan. But in our case, we must look at all Indian citizens as one, against the ruling class. Truly, Ek hain to safe hain.
The price of democracy, of freedom itself, is eternal vigilance. Don't forget that.
Kedar Anil Gadgil
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Sorryvarkar cosplay
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Paid a visit to Savarkar's cell. I am sorry.
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Social Ostracism: Professor Faces Boycott Over Son's Marriage
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The groom should not sit on a mare... After receiving threats, the Dalit groom completed the wedding rituals with police security
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The Manifesto Of Dalit Panthers, it was a radical ambedkarite marxist organization. They were against elections and the state.
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Redirecting investments to Gujarat: Modi govt’s playbook | LME EP 48
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A Summary of Xi Jinping's Governance of China
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PoK is part of India now mitroo
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marxism is incompatible with religion
Especially with any vague moralistic underpinning that tries to make it compatible with Marxism, like “Jesus said the rich are immoral, and we all are equal so that makes it socialist.” For Marxism to be taken seriously at all as a descriptive science, it has to discard any moralization—and that’s precisely what Marx and Engels do. The Marxist interpretation of history and society is amoralistic (though by no means non-normative, but more on that later). It examines the way social forms of organization come and go, building towards a more refined structural understanding of freedom as the entire being of humanity. Just as science studies how an apple falls from a tree without moral judgment—whether it kills a man or lands in front of him to sate his hunger—Marxism approaches history, society, and humanity the same way: understanding them without making moral judgments.
> It was slavery that first made possible the division of labour between agriculture and industry on a larger scale, and thereby also Hellenism, the flowering of the ancient world. Without slavery, no Greek state, no Greek art and science; without slavery, no Roman Empire. But without the basis laid by Hellenism and the Roman Empire, also no modern Europe.
>We should never forget that our whole economic, political and intellectual development presupposes a state of things in which slavery was as necessary as it was universally recognised. In this sense we are entitled to say: Without the slavery of antiquity, no modern socialism exists.
– Engels
Marxists are especially against any sort of egalitarianism. For Marx, egalitarianism was a meaningless concept born out of the French Revolution. These kinds of ideas are so vague they can mean anything—from equality for all people to own property (as egalitarianism) to everyone being equally slaughtered in an imperialist war. For concepts to have real meaning, Marx—drawing on Hegel—argues they must form categorically, starting from the simplest and building to the most complex, thereby proving their validity. The entire essence of existence (the simplest concept) for both Marx and Hegel develops towards the most "absolute," which is freedom. This freedom evolves throughout history, becoming more refined and intelligible—from Greek slavery to the future communist society. The former is necessary for the latter, just as a person cannot mature without first being a teenager.
The claim that humanity is freedom, and that it cannot be anything but freedom, answers the fundamental question of philosophy: What is the being of being? This necessarily negates any transcendental personal God, as the essence of existence is found within existence itself. It also negates the Upanishadic Brahma and the Buddhist śūnyatā, as both are assimilated into lower forms of understanding of being within Hegel’s system, and necessarily for Marx as well.
you might get someone into marxism or even start a social movement by using religion as a populist idea by inferring and referencing scriptures but on an intellectual level, both are absolutely incompatible.
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Tribal Village’s Nightmare: No Roads, No Ambulance, and a Tragic Death
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modi praises "sabarmati report" a movie based on the godhra train tragedy that led to the 2002 riots
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but they were still entirely under the thumbs of their masters (that in itself needs some context, though, since Roman society placed an unusual emphasis on the authority of the patriarch as head of the household – a father basically had the same rights over his children as a master over his slaves, and was even allowed to kill them if he chose, though this right was rarely exercised in the historical period). In short, Rome is emphatically not an example of a society where slavery is normally a consensual arrangement… but it does provide two prominent exceptions.
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The second quote is for people who might bring up the talking point that, The Pokémon don't seem to have a problem with the current arrangement, it's not that deep bro!" To which I would say, the "consent" of Pokémon is irrelevant in this context. My judgement on the subject was that, technically, it doesn’t make a difference – legally owning another intelligent being is still slavery even if the slave is totally okay with it.
It seems so that the Pokémon society of the canon lives in a dystopic reality where slavery is normalized.
This proprietary of intelligent life forms is ethically reprehensible (some might argue that proprietary of ALL life forms is) but is rarely touched upon in the entirety of the show, and the one time they do brush up on this intensely sensitive topic, they fuck it up (we'll get to it later). The games, however, have some more nuance to them. Team Plasma form Pokémon Black and White, even though are portrayed as extremist fringe eco-terrorists, have been given a sympathetic. The PocketPair developed and published game Palworld is also a refreshing take on the Pokémon predicament (they are currently being sued by Nintendo for this absolute banger, fuck Nintendo). But I digress.
# The MewTwo Movement
The brainchild of the brilliant Dr. Fuji, clone of the First Universal Common Ancestor of the Pokémon world Mew (yet leagues more powerful), the burdened of humanity's greed, the strongest puppet Giovani ever fiddled with, a revolutionary who is repulsed by the goals of humanity, a fore bringer of change, the shining hope or so we thought.
MewTwo.
MewTwo with Giovani in Team Rocket's Lab
MewTwo was, from inception, fiercely independent and mindful. Their curiosity knew no bounds, and when Dr. Fuji declared their life to hold no purpose outside of being an experiment of humans, he was enraged, going on to kill every single person in the facility. MewTwo's time with Giovani was perhaps the most influential time of their life, in relative proximity to human civilization, MewTwo began to see the flaws in the Human-dominated society. This was the genesis of class consciousness for MewTwo. After rebelling against Giovani to find his own way, MewTwo took some extreme measures to end the divide between Pokémon and their human masters (but justified in my opinion).
# MewTwo Strikes Back
MewTwo Strikes Back is a 1998 animated movie directed by Yuyama Kunihiko was the first Pokémon movie to be ever made, whose central plot revolved around MewTwo distaste for exploitation and how he intends to
Poster of Pokémon: The First Movie from 1999 in English
reform the predicament of their kind to better suite their interests by creating clones. Ash and team alongside Team Rocket were able to intervene MewTwo very first steps (with the added support of Mew) by convincing MewTwo of the goodwill of the humankind with great sacrifice from Ash's end (which is climatically reverted).
MewTwo understands the "flaws" in his thinking and retreats back to
