I love your trees.

These are fascinating questions.

> But it's hard not to roll my eyes at the way he has been co-opted and overhyped by a certain subset of young people who seem to think that discovering Nietzsche makes them deep, edgy, and uniquely intelligent.

They like my band. I found them first. How could they not possible understand everything I know which is much deeper.

I also like how you bring up the potential dangers of missing the point of his work but never actually address them or illustrate actually one single danger of oversimplifying his work.

Nice blog.

My first comment was removed for being an opinion. Which is comical as the article is also merely opinion. So I’ll expound upon it.

This is a superficial review of a common gripe of philosophy enthusiasts and second year university students. The complaint is that people like themselves posses a deeper understanding of the text of Nietzche than the casual reader who memeifies the complex psycho-philosophical writings for tshirts and well, memes. Their memification or dumbing down of a complex idea is offensive to the author.

There is no deep textual review of Nietzsche there is no factual review of student or public discourse regarding Nietzsche. There is no review, comment, quote from contemporary scholars on the misunderstandings the author is griping about. Each paragraph merely doubling down on the previous reciting the dilemma of the watering down of Nietzsche’s works.

So this is an opinion piece masquerading as a philosophy article.