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Brendon Kovacic
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“Of Young and Old Women” is the biggest pile of dogshit i’ve ever read. This feels outdated even for the 19th Century. Nietzsche describes women are being wholly unintelligent, useful only as pregnancy farms and being a mother to their kids and husbands. Weird ass Oedipus shit. How convenient Nietzsche wrote a nameless, vapid female character to agree with everything Zarathustra says and offer no challenge.
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Brendon Kovacic
is on page 81 of 343
I think “Of Flies in the Marketplace” is about useless, small-minded, inconsequential people that serve only to clutter your life, sap your energy, and waste your time. I didn’t mind that chapter, actually. His assessment of government in “Of the New Idol” was funny i suppose
— Feb 22, 2026 07:23PM
Brendon Kovacic
is on page 73 of 343
This part of the book is mostly short 2-4 page philosophies, a lot of which reads like self-aggrandising bullshit. I find myself having to read over what i have just read as my eyes glaze over and the needlessly complicated drivel bounces off my brain. I did resonate with ‘Of The Tree on the Mountainside’ though. Extracurricular study of a re-read will be necessary.
— Feb 19, 2026 02:29PM
Brendon Kovacic
is on page 41 of 343
The almost 40-page introduction, written by R.J. Hollingdale, managed to piss me off with what felt like insecure deflections of critique of Nietzsche’s philosophies, but it sort of pulled me back once Hollingdale began breaking down complex themes in the book to come in a digestible way I could refer back to. Like a WWE walkout song, the introduction managed to hype and prepare me for what I am about to read.
— Feb 17, 2026 03:51AM
