Untimely Reflections #19 - Alan Watts & Friedrich Nietzsche on Insecurity, with Mynaa Miesnowan
The Nietzsche Podcast
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In nature in its most extreme state it's torpor right. And then you see it when an animal's not hunting it's usually like lounging or playing. So you see what the animals do with their time and then you look at us and you go well what the hell happened. You know we learned about time and productivity and to me time is time is our great insecurity. It's the one thing that's gone. Like Nietzsche says in use and abuse of history for life he basically starts out by saying consider the animal grazing before you. It lives on historically it doesn't have time but he's happy so if you were to ask the cow why are you happy he wouldn't
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