Episode 49: Out of Time: Nietzsche on History
Weird Studies
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The Importance of Critical Thinking
The problem with a lot of the critical thinking that's going on today is that it seems to extract itself from the flux of things. The critic without need, the antiquarian without reverence, and the authority on greatness with no capacity to be great are such growths. If these historical growths are carelessly transplanted, great damage is done. Plants that have run wild and torn from their nurturing soil have therefore degenerated into weeds. And I think that the lampooning of great man history comes very readily to us partly because we've seen so many examples in the recent past of this sort of thing.
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