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15: On the Use and Abuse of History for Life

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Forgetting Exists Long Before Remembering

Nicha believes that forgetfulness is an active force which is part and parcel with life itself. This is the natural state of the animals, he says. Forgetting existed long before remembering. The fact that we ere able to counter the force of forgetfulness at all is a strange and maybe even abberrant thing among all the natural beings. Nica didn't write that until about a decade after the essay were talking about to day, on the use and abuse of history for life.

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