8.07.2003

I fixed the broken links both here and on the links page. I made the essays section nicer, but it still needs more content. I added the poop book which some people have already pooped in. I joined 24 hour fitness. I started reading Nietzsche again. I think I'll use him for my independant study. Folks (especially relatives) inevitably bring up Nietzsche's rep as an anti-semite. When you have a genius of his caliber who is blowing open so many concepts and attacking pretty much every idol, discussing whether he was an anti-semite is somehow to miss the point. Anyhow he had at least as much against "the Englishman" as "the Jew," and his real disdain was for "the Christian." But for Nietzsche these words don't delineate groups of people, rather they encapsulate perspectives that were antithetical to him. He wrote "The Antichrist," not "The Anti-semite" so keep things in persepctive. Most Christians deal pretty well with folks who don't like the premesis of their religion-- of course they can sit back smugly and imagine that person's eternal damnation in a lake of hellfire. I guess Jews have to be vigilant 'cus they've been bit in the ass enough times to stay on the lookout.

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