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that's interesting. it's that holistic-love full of paradoxes that I like. It goes something like "it sucks, but it is beautiful"

Welp, the paradox with my thought is that dirtification is in itself a work of art worthy of honor and so on.

Is that so. As being an artist myself, I would say that I smashed broken the line between fact and fiction just as one smashes the illusory line betwe...

I am wary to equate the escapist with the cultural critic, but I suppose it's that combination of art and criticality that creates the visionary. Prob...

You have a point. A simplification would probably be to say that one is constructive, the other destructive, but it falls short as a separating line. ...

I agree. But depending on the composition of a piece, minors can be used for energetic moments. Take Bill Wurtz, for example, who is famous for his st...

The gods of music must be crazy What I said was a gross generalization, but I would say that it's actually dependent on the dominant cultures of a cer...

\ "Simple," you say.

This, I think, is a relevant statement. People's outlooks in life can greatly change depending on their psychological state, which can be associated v...

What do you mean? No, I don't speak German. Any non-English words I used here are either in Tagalog or, er, the name of an ice cream company. I see. T...

not that it's absolutely wrong, but that it's unhealthy. Note that I am using the word 'escape' here, but escaping from what? Duties, work, personal p...

I see. I admit to have a curiosity for "true truths", though it seems to me that regardless of whether this is, it makes little if no difference to ho...

“How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.” ? Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche seems to have an agonistic philosophy, so na...

Ah, forgive me for that gross generalization, but welp, at least I've expressed that there is this kind of phenomenon transpiring. Regardless of their...

Precisely my point. As do I. However, I think that once one treats the whole of life, the world, as art, the best way to appreciate it would be by, er...

It matters only in the humanistic sense, free of or consciously constricted by psychological hurdles. Beyond that, I have nothing to say. It can be wh...

what, that art is supposed to pull you away from the suffering of life? Asceticism seems to me very repulsive, especially in art. If it is a fact, it ...

though in this case, Schopenhauer is the one who is responsible for this dirtyfication.

ah, what I am referring to is how the young people of this generation, my generation, tend to ignore their duties (basic things like homework, school ...

I see, thanks for sharing this to me. I am concerned of how present idols (Singers, boy bands, K-pop artsist,...etc) are used as a sort of drug to int...

Could you teach me of this?

There is truth in what you say, but once art is grounded in its more natural, more humanistic conception, the end result is that art as a rejection, a...

I agree that therapy is important but only insofar as it is used as a tool for life-affirmation. There's a sort of life-denial when people think that ...

Personally, I find the individualistic conception of genius as less interesting compared to the genius of someone of great excellence and influence.

I encounter this concept a lot in Japanese novels. In Zaregoto: Psychological by Nisioisin, the main theme was how genius always invites contempt for ...

I see. A more interpersonal and semantic approach on therapy is great, though I suppose there are certain circumstances that no matter how you look at...

I suppose its practical value lies on when it is useful for a person to 'get back on track' and not merely on whether a person is this or that. I do n...

Your stance is that there's happiness in ignorance. It's perfectly reasonable, but as earthly beings, all of us have it within ourselves to strive to ...

I agree with your theory. Nietzsche tackled this topic and wrote something similar. Here are some of my notes on Birth of Tragedy Quoting myself on a ...

Music is somehow mystical in the sense that it has a sort of universality relative to human emotions and passions. Sad music makes us sad regardless o...

You might want to consider learning the Greeks as you are reading the Birth.

Ah, nice. While I do not think it is necessarily harmful, it seems to me that there is an ulterior motive to make everyone feel as though they are rem...

I do share the same sentiment; that we should ignore the epistemological problem and simply deal with it, maybe by neutrality or authenticity to onese...

If it is as you say, then why do you think there is a will for complexity?

I assume that you're familiar with some of Nietzsche's ideas but have not yet really dove deep into his works? If so, then my best recommendation for ...

It seems to me that the truth value of a certain remark has some relevance in understanding a simplification's psychological impact. In my example wit...

I see. Simplification really just sucks balls when it lacks consideration for others' view of themselves.

There is truth in what you say, but in the book's context, It is the reverse. Please be wary of what I tell you for it is only my interpretation, but ...

In that book, Nietzsche was actually referring to Greek tragedy (plays, dithyrambs) and how it came to pass that the Greeks gave birth to such things ...