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Friedrich Nietzsche

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Page: 1  Entered: 31 Aug, 2015  Modified: 6 Oct, 2015 Nietzsche will help us perceive a basic problem, and see that it developed quite early Ð that the creation of meaning, and minding or caring, tend to be damaged by an overload of information or generally of impressions. ÒSensibility immensely more irritable; the abundance of disparate impressions greater than ever; cosmopolitanism in food, literatures, newspapers, forms, tastes, even landscapes. The tempo of this influx prestissimo; the impressions erase each other; one instinctively resists taking in anything, taking anything deeply, to ÒdigestÓ anything; a weakening of the power to digest results from this. A kind of adaptation to this flood of impressions takes place: men unlearn spontaneous action, they merely react to stimuli from outside. They spend their strength partly in assimilating things, partly in defense, partly in opposition. Profound weakening of spontaneity: The historian, critic, analyst, interpreter, the observer, the collector, the reader-all of them reactive talents-all science! Artificial change of oneÕs nature into a ÒmirrorÓ; interested but, as it were, merely epidermically interested; a coolness on principle, a balance, a fixed low temperature closely underneath the thin surface on which warmth, movement, Òtempest,Ó and the play of waves are encountered. Opposition of external mobility and a certain deep heaviness and weariness.Ò (Friedrich Nietzsche, The will to power)

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