Nietzsche and Kanye: From One Douche Bag to Another

One thing is needful.—To "give style" to one's character—a great and rare art! It is practiced by those who survey all the strengths and weaknesses of their nature and then fit them into an artistic plan until every one of them appears as art and reason and even weaknesses delight the eye. Here a large mass of second nature has been added; there a piece of original nature has been removed—both times through long practice and daily work at it. Here the ugly that could not be removed is concealed; there it has been reinterpreted and made sublime. Much that is vague and resisted shaping has been saved and exploited for distant views; it is meant to beckon toward the far and immeasurable. In the end, when the work is finished, it becomes evident how the constraint of a single taste governed and formed everything large and small. Whether this taste was good or bad is less important than one might suppose, if only it was a single taste!

- Nietzsche, The Gay Science (Gay meaning happy, not that there's anything wrong with that)

Nietzsche in his heyday was quite notably one of the greatest douchebags in history, he exclaimed that "God is Dead," Kanye on the other hand exclaimed "Yo, Taylor, I'm happy for you and all and Ima let you finish, but Beyonce had one of the greatest videos of all time." While the content may differ, sometimes it takes a great moral character, who dares, who has the courage, to bear the Torch of Douche, to say what needs to be said.

The Notebook was a shitty movie.

Justin Bieber is talented

Justin Bieber has a bright future ahead of him*

I can hear the mob coming.

K. Killing the VMAs

You’ve been putting up with my shit for way too long…/ Let’s have a toast for the douchebags/Let’s have a toast for the assholes…/Baby, I’ve got a plan/Run away as fast as you can.

Nietzsche killing the philosophy game.

"I am not a human being, I am dynamite."

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."

"Even a thought, even a possibility, can shatter us and transform us."

"While dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is – in a broader sense – the play with dreams."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Speaking of dreams...

*Bieber has future ahead of him as long as he doesn't get Haley Joel Osment Disease.

Before

After

Here is Osment in various stages of the disease.

Here is Osment in the later stages of the disease. Osment Disease has turned him into some kind of Japanese man.