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Untimely Reflections #19 - Alan Watts & Friedrich Nietzsche on Insecurity, with Mynaa Miesnowan

The Nietzsche Podcast

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The Question Is Is Man Better Off in the State of Nature?

The question is the frolicing society of dolphins better than humans is really functionally the same question as asking whether man was better off in the state of nature right um and I think it's very similar to Nietzsche in that respect of like a model of life that came before the problem is yes that it's inimitable. The conditions that created that are no longer there so you can't just like abstract play decide like I'm going to live as an ancient Greek, says Watts. "What you exclude or carve away is sort of what brings forward the image that you create" he adds.

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