Edge Lord

A real possibility: I fucked myself up by reading Nietzsche. Alternatively equal possibility: I was fucked up, so I read Nietzsche. But Certainly: Well-adjusted adults in their mid-twenties are not fascinated with Nietzsche. I am no longer fascinated  by Nietzsche. I don't think about him regularly, even though I have a portrait of the guy hanging over my desk. He's interesting. He's still relevant albeit overdone. And I worry that he left a mark, for better or worse—or for good or evil or whatever lies beyond (WINK WINK). Thinking about power is...destructive, corrupting. Power flows in ways that are not our ways. And mimicking the  flows of powers  that you may observe won't win you any good prizes, because they cannot be copied from observation. Look, I do not know if that makes sense outside of my head, but I have to put it out there: if you try to merely mimic the flows, you will fail, and you will pay for your failure . Power is more like a dance...

Some people just don't get it. Some people just don't ever learn. Some people are incorrigible. Humans are free yet incorrigible. Some things won't be learned by certain people. Some habits will never change. Some values will never change. Some people will always have a gambling addiction. Some people will always run late. Some people will never stop living paycheck to paycheck. Some things never change. But blessed are the incorrigible, for theirs is nature. Blessed are the incorrigible, for they are each a mountain—unmovable. ... The lesson: Don't waste time trying to change nature. Don't beg a mountain to move. Scale it, or walk around.