#Also Sprach Zarathustra

[macheire]

you don't understand kaiba being Nietzsche reader make sense

[fidjiefidjie]

Bon Soir 💙 🎼🎻👌

Herbert von Karajan 🎵 Also Sprach Zarathustraby

(Avec Wiener Philharmoniker)

Animation de Rui Barbosa

[acronimica]

“Man nennt euch herzlos: aber euer Herz ist ächt, und ich liebe die Scham eurer Herzlichkeit”

La si chiama senza cuore; invece il Suo cuore è autentico, e io amo la pudicizia del Suo aver cuore.

Interpretazione personale.

[cosmonautroger]

Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, 1883

[ohmelinoe]

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: “Am I a dishonest player?” — for he is willing to succumb.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

[hoy-boy]

Space Odyssey - "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (John Hoy)

[ruindunburnit]

Just saw Wicked Part 1 (again)! Here's another thought:

(WARNING: Spoilers for the film)

Did anyone else hear the film version of 'Defying Gravity' and hear a nod to Strauss's 'Also Sprach Zarathustra', right at the very end?

I know, I know, "Kevin, you dumb bitch, it's just Stephen Schwartz taking liberties with the percussion."

I mean, yes, totally.

But also (said Kevin) wouldn't it be so perfect if it is a reference?

See, Also Sprach Zarathustra ("Thus Spoke Zarathustra") is a tone-poem composed by Strauss, inspired by the philosophical novel by Friederich Nietzsche.

For those who don't know, this novel is one of Nietzsche's theses on Nihilism. (See the very short video below for a quick refresher on what that is).

In the novel, Zarathustra is a hermit (often compared to the Zoroaster of old) who descends from his cave to tell people that the God they have been worshipping is dead; there is no "inherent meaning" to life and no God to appease, no purpose but to create meaning for yourself and leave behind better people than yourself (or, "übermensch"). Over the course of the novel, he re-ascends and re-descends from his cave in between periods of solitude, to build upon his teachings and deal with his enemies, including the people who distort his teachings, and the spirit of gravity (who is defeated by Zarathustra's teaching on eternal recurrence - see the video below:)

In the final part, a soothsayer predicts he will be tempted into feeling compassion for this "higher man" -- actually men, who each exemplify but a part of the higher man -- heralded by a lion and a flock of doves. Upon the prophecy coming true, Zarathustra returns once more to his cave, deciding thus that his work is his only concern, and ever will be.

That is, if this is an intended reference, then we are seeing Elphaba's life echoed back: her periods of solitude, coming from a home in a constant state of disconnect from the people who are supposed to love her but only treat her as a burden, and so forcibly divorced from the part of her that deeply cares for other people and wants them to care for her too (because what's the point of loving them if you assume their love was never yours to begin with?), that all falls right on in. Sure.

But let's dig deeper. In this moment, she is an exceptional woman with power beyond imagining and finally at home with who she is, only finally being acknowledged for her worth because a great and powerful Wizard (worshipped by the masses) can use it for his own terrible purposes. Were she the woman she was just minutes before, this could have been a dream come true, her heart's desire, Santa Claus released from his soap bubble and bringing all her Christmases at once.

The only problem is, she's seen behind the curtain now: the Wizard is just a man, a fraud, and he has no real power to speak of. And because he has dictated the meaning of everything to the people, what else will they do but take the meaning he gives them? If he says a green girl is a traitor and terrorist, who are they to argue?

But Elphaba must. God is dead, she is but one woman burdened with her life and her responsibility and no way out of it; there is no meaning but what she makes for herself. She is not the only one who has make this leap; Fiyero has too, but where he chooses to do nothing, offer nothing, dance as much as he can without making a ripple as a passive nihilist, Elphaba is not satisfied with that. She chooses to make something real of it, take a stand for the meaning she creates, for she is the active nihilist, making a better world for Animals, defying gravity itself.

"Boy, that sounds like a reach." Yes, I hear you. You might be saying, "You just remember those beats from 2001: A Space Odyssey, because it was played during the beginning scene with the hominids."

Yes, but that is also my point. In that scene, the hominids' interactions with the monolith allowed them to discover tools, to discover their own brilliance and make that incredible leap forward, to at last reach that boundary line where meet the fallen angel and the rising ape: humanity.

Here is the scene itself:

They evolved, just as Chistery did when Elphaba gave him and his fellow Monkeys wings and the power of flight with it, just as Elphaba did when she attained the Grimmerie and the power of flight for herself. If not becoming the übermensch herself, she took her first steps there.

Which is to say, if this is just a coincidence, and Schwartz didn't mean to invoke the parable of Zarathustra the nihilist in Elphaba's reclamation of her power and herself, then... damn. Good thing I stretched first, because I think I stuck the landing on a damn good coincidence!

[dailyfigures]

[A] ; Original Character ☆ Wing

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Also aber rathe ich euch, meine Freunde: mißtraut Allen, in welchen der Trieb, zu strafen, mächtig ist! Das ist Volk schlechter Art und Abkunft; aus ihren Gesichtern blickt der Henker und der Spürhund. Mißtraut allen Denen, die viel von ihrer Gerechtigkeit reden! Wahrlich, ihren Seelen fehlt es nicht nur an Honig. Und wenn sie sich selber „die Guten und Gerechten“ nennen, so vergeßt nicht, daß ihnen zum Pharisäer Nichts fehlt als—Macht!

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had—power.

—Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra: Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen, 2. Teil, § 29 (Von den Taranteln)(1883–85)

[Robert Scott Horton]

[churchofsatannews]

Happy Beaster!

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[9drunkdriver11]

einst blickte die seele verächtlich auf den leib: und damals war diese verachtung das höchste: — sie wollte ihm mager, grässlich, verhungert. so dachte sie ihm die und der erde zu entschlüpfen.

[spineless-lobster]

Okay so @spaghetti-napoletana had the incredible idea of editing this audio over The Scene so here’s that I guess lol

[ritterum]

Lust—tiefer noch als Herzeleid: Weh spricht: Vergeh! Doch alle Lust will Ewigkeit—, —will tiefe, tiefe Ewigkeit!

[ultramaxxed]

Ich sage euch: man muß noch Chaos in sich haben, um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können

[notallbloodmages]

Xine-osaga

Okay this is a legit question. I would like to put together....a zine.

For Xenosaga. The pun is amazing and I frikkin love the series so much. I recently replayed all 3 and I can't believe it's just as fun as it was 14 years ago.

My contribution would be a patch, t-shirt, hat, I can do a LOT of things, but not drawing or writing really.

[mudwerks]

(via Also Sprach Zarathustra - Eumir Deodato (1972)