2:00PM Water Cooler 11/28/2022 | naked capitalism
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Ever since the Cold War broke out in the 1950s, people have found a strange, paradoxical comfort in thinking about the unthinkable.
From the unsettling conclusion of Biden’s Not-the-State-of-the-Union Speech: “We’ve *stared into the abyss* of insurrection and autocracy, pandemic and pain.” Nietzsche’s parable on ressentiment is being paraphrased here: “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee” ( Beyond Good and Evil, #146). So who are the real monsters now? I personally feel sickened — the Nietzschean diagnosis here would be nausea — by the Biden presidency. I take it to be an assault on everyth...