>>6140284>>6140291>>6140325>>6140345>DEPRESSIONGiebt es einen Pessimismus der Stärke?
Is there a Pessimism Of Strength?
-Nietzsche, The Birth Of Tragedy (1872)
Look it is 1872 the United States is overtaking Great Britain in economic prowess, the world has fallen into a Long Depression (1873-1896) following various speculative manias, bank failures,and financial contagion from the Viennese bourse, collapse has triggered waves of mass emigration and the rising imposition of tariffs and protectionist measures across the continent, in this entirely unfamiliar foreign political landscape you are Nietzsche, that immoral Lou-Andreas Salome lady just won't have sex with you so you have decided to become an incel and you pose this intriguing question. After spending some time combing your moustache and plagiarising all of Schopenhauer's ideas, using ChatGPT to regurgitate them into an elaborately enlengthened prefatory essay, you rant incomprehensibly about THE GODS THE GODS Dionysian Apollonian aspects etc, you conclude:
(...) What if the Greeks in the very wealth of their youth had the will to be tragic and were pessimists? What if it was madness itself, to use a word of Plato's, which brought the greatest blessings upon Hellas? And what if, on the other hand and conversely, at the very time of their dissolution and weakness, the Greeks became always more optimistic, more superficial, more histrionic, also more ardent for logic and the logicising of the world,—consequently at the same time more "cheerful" and more "scientific"? Ay, despite all "modern ideas" and prejudices of the democratic taste, may not the triumph of optimism, the common sense that has gained the upper hand, the practical and theoretical utilitarianism, like democracy itself, with which it is synchronous—be symptomatic of declining vigour, of approaching age, of physiological weariness?
>affliction, suffering, tragedy and despair are completely healthy and normal>if you ever feel happy or triumphant, STOP IMMEDIATELY for the sake of your own wellbeing 