"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
The Man Who Pretended to Know Too Much
With his invocation of unnamed “Nietzsche scholars,” eccentric (though anodyne) interpretation of Nietzsche as Buddhist, and warning that the he may have more to say in the future, Steorts is implicitly claiming to know a lot about Nietzsche. But that claim doesn’t square with what he actually writes.
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