In a sense, what iambiguous seeks to destroy, from where I stand, is universality. Universality is bullshit. But that’s the point, Nietzsche himself broke universality. Everybody i’ve seen address that side of Nietzsche but Faust, the Satyrs and the Heideggers and others, have then decided that lack of universality is itself the universality, and then usually try to mechanize it. It’s foolish, Faust never falls into that trap. But then, he doesn’t either take Nietzsche at the top of Nietzsche’s stakes, the will to power. He points out the trail leading up to it, the very human trail. Human, all too human. But what I think keeps him from those stakes is one truth that is uncomfortable to those who would like to see philosophy as a discipline that can be taken up. The sheer density of Nietzsche. the grotesque amount of volume in terms of philosophy. He points out some of the most beautiful and tries to make a trail from there, but the truth is you must be able to digest ALL of Nietzsche’s writing (published writing, you nazi fuckfaces). Or at least all of the inmense amount of dimensions his writing covers. And each dimension hurts more than the last, you pay with blood for each understanding. He even saw Faust coming in that sense, what we want most is to not see others suffer what we have suffered. There is no picking and choosing.
Is that even relevant? I think not. I think it because every time I read something Faust writes, my mind is blown. It is blown in the same fashion as when I read good philosophy, which is very rare and very special. You realize there exist heights that are usually hidden from view.
But iambiguous fights the good fight against universality. And the political nature of this is what Faust cannot escape. To try to tell me that there is such a thing as a sane politics, a sane form of government. That is the Englishman in him, one suspects. Government is insane fundamentally, and one must use it as one would a poison dart. It’s not “fine.” There is no “reasonable” form of government.
My sadness si that Faust even goes there, entretains politics, when he is clearly of the loftier side of Nietzsche. The jazz. Perhaps as if he is trying to hide the many dangerous consequences one can politically see following from Nietzsche. Liek trying to separate that danger from the loftyness. Again, that is very Englishmanny.
Government is evil. Insofar as he ever explicitly mentioned a state or a government, which he did, Nietzsche simply said that it was obvious to any sane man that the state eventually had to disappear (and state=government for anybody that didn’t already know, holy fuck are you kidding?).
So. You know. Rock on iambiguous. I don’t know why I wrote all this, crazy bastards like Ecmandu just inspire me. Tempt me. Whatever it is. One must simply hope that truth has its own weight and its own importance and it is worth saying nonetheless.