Post by Admin on Oct 10, 2019 21:54:37 GMT
“Alas, the time is coming when man will no longer give birth to a star. Alas, the time of the most despicable man is coming, he that is no longer able to despise himself. Behold, I show you the last man.
“‘What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?’ thus asks the last man, and he blinks.
“The earth is small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race is as ineradicable as the flea-beetle; the last man lives longest.
“‘We have invented happiness,’ say the last men, and they blink. They have left the regions where it was hard to live, for one needs warmth. One still loves one’s neighbor and rubs against him, for one needs warmth.
newcriterion.com/issues/1991/9/the-legacy-of-friedrich-nietzsche
And Rick Dugan is that Last Man. When I first joined this forum I did not understand what the issue was.
www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=62198
SJG
“‘What is love? What is creation? What is longing? What is a star?’ thus asks the last man, and he blinks.
“The earth is small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race is as ineradicable as the flea-beetle; the last man lives longest.
“‘We have invented happiness,’ say the last men, and they blink. They have left the regions where it was hard to live, for one needs warmth. One still loves one’s neighbor and rubs against him, for one needs warmth.
newcriterion.com/issues/1991/9/the-legacy-of-friedrich-nietzsche
And Rick Dugan is that Last Man. When I first joined this forum I did not understand what the issue was.
www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=62198
SJG