
Book 3 (again)
0- 3:15 Bad intros
3:20 - 16:00
Nietzsche’s materialist comedy; section 124 - the infinite; panic attacks - cognitive models vs. affective experiential; subjectivity; thinking as terror/comfort; what meaningless means;
16:00 - 39:20
section 143: advantages of polytheism; vs. monotheism; agonism vs. true/false; section 149 Plato and Pythagoras as failed founders of religions; the conditioning of “the people”; biodiversity; “it wasn’t me. god did it through me”; the alleged fragmentation of contemporary society; multiple monotheisms? polytheism and monarchy/monarchies; John is skittish about all transcendence; different orientations to difference (pluralism v dogmatism);
39:30 - 58:20
Rome vs. Judea; imperialism and religion; is science monotheistic?; absolutist responses to COVID; the CDC couldn’t be provisional; polytheism as just a moment without a dominant monotheism; experimental science seems to potentially lead toward overman also - despite piety and fealty