Glad you asked! _Facing the Dragon_ by Robert Moore

https://superbowl.substack.com/p/book-review-facing-the-drag...

Thank you! This does look like it could provide a much needed perspective to some Nietzsche-adjacent issues (relating to his own “cosmodicy”) that I have been wrestling with others about.. especially as I recently, off-handedly, in anger, in grandiosity even, accused somebodies of being well-intentioned bullies.. Also relevant to organizational/selves herding, of course ;)

EDIT: if i may, your review makes me imagine that one socially virtuous mantra (or vitious countermand?) to meditate upon in mitigation of narcissism could be “loyalty to the Other”

Tangential EDIT: it could also be worth meditating on the wide spread opinions that Ayn Rand (mentioned above) and Nietzsche are both young people’s (mostly young men’s) writers

> DEUS FACTUS SUM

as opposed to Vespasian, who on his deathbed, is said to have said:

> Vae, puto deus fio.

Dude apparently didnt get to consult, e.g. his personal astrolger Seleucus (pro Weirdo? Oriental? Wojack? AOTA?)

Or he’d have said instead

< Deus, vae, felix fio

(Did i get that right?)

Most felicitous, for tomorrow he could be sure of being free from meeting with people (for surely if there were such a century later, they'd already been there in Vespasian's time) who are meddling, ungrateful, aggressive, treacherous, malicious, unsocial.

I hope this isnt directed at me but i was glad to see some HN comments getting unflagged yesterday. Cant expect curmudgeons to become real estate salesmen* overnight..

* et tu, Livy? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curmudgeon

Not directed at you; it was recalling how MAA noted that the reward for being at the very top of a hierarchy is getting to spend your waking hours in the company of the sorts of people who get near the top of hierarchies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38930334