Comments by "TheDionysianFields" (@TheDionysianFields) on "Academy of Ideas"
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Major issues here.
This video doesn't track for me because of a man named M. Scott Peck, upon whose work you (ironically) based your most recent video. Not only did Peck (a conservative mind) write The Road Less Traveled, but he went on to write a book called A World Waiting To Be Born. This book clearly posited an alternate reality that's within our access, and one that's radically different from the world we currently know (and are, perhaps, trapped in).
My feeling is that you've over-simplified Nietzsche, whose own work often alluded to a "great beyond" IMO. If acceptance was the central theme for Nietzsche, there would be no Overman and no progress even. We would all lead simple lives and build meaningful relationships with each other that would suffice all of our needs. There would be no reaching for something more.
Despite my own longings, I try to entertain this "simple life" as being an end in itself. But I can only entertain one or the other as the premise for life. Life is either about gentle acceptance or crashing through barriers...barriers that block us from a higher world or reality.
You can argue that there's a gradual progression to that world, but I have my doubts and I don't believe such represents Nietzsche's work (not that I'm saying he had things figured out).
As far as nihilism itself, that's certainly an issue. I just don't see a direct connection with positing "other worlds." In fact, I would be much more inclined to nihilism if I thought this crappy world was all there is.
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