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Re:Anti-Education by Nietzsche, and why mainstream culture d... by krotton on Saturday January 16, 2016 @09:18PM (#10917983)
I don't see the article claiming Nietzsche would praise popular culture - it seems to claim otherwise ("Anti-academic Nietzsche may have been, but his mistake was in pinning his hopes on “high culture”") and it's rather solely what the author of the article thinks himself.
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Re:Anti-Education by Nietzsche, and why mainstream culture d... by yohoho22 on Sunday January 17, 2016 @12:44AM (#10918450)
Yeah, that's how I read it. And that last bit seemed so shoehorned on there that it almost seemed like it was an effort to give the story some kind of hook that the author or an editor might have thought it lacked.
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Re:Anti-Education by Nietzsche, and why mainstream culture d... by coldtea on Sunday January 17, 2016 @03:31AM (#10918824)
The fact that the author took the precaution to say that Nietzsche himself would have disagreed with his supposedly Nietzsche-inspired theory, doesn't make his conclusions regarding mainstream culture any less of a non seguitur.
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