The Genius of the Crowd

[recycled_wit]

there is enough treachery, hatred, violence

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[__purelifebliss]

ah, bukowski, that drunk angry bastard...

[__purelifebliss]

oh shit, this also kind of reminds me of nietzche's geneology of morals, the parts about herd mentality of the genius of the resentment of the weak. if you haven't read that, i recommend it.

[recycled_wit]

So, whoa. At the end of the Acid Test book, Kesey has started to ramble on about how Nietzche gets it, too, so the fact that you mentioned him kind of took me aback anyway.

I don't have that collection of essays, but I googled it. I read the SparkNotes summary (haha, I know, I know), and now I understand the whole dynamic of the Pranksters even more. It's like Kesey read Nietzche before the original bus ride, and then decided to create an entire theatrical production of part of his musings/theory. But the thing is, it doesn't seem like Kesey even got into him really hardcore until he was in Mexico, near the end, which is what must have helped him totally complete the circle. And I got all this from a SN summary, ha!

Have you ever heard of the Social Construction of Reality Theory? Sounds exactly like something that come out of Nietzche's asshole now that I read that little thing. Now I have to actually read the shitter, hahaha.

[__purelifebliss]

nietzche in general is fantastically insane and gets so heated and crazy in his own writings that it makes for a wildride/great read. i mean, the man literally died of insanity. drove himself so mad he died of it. that is impressive, to me