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I never liked this quote. Nietzsche, “If you stare into the Abyss long enough, the Abyss stares back at you.” https://t.co/TwvfGaUWkJ
Why? There felt like a carelessness to this quote. I imagine most people who encounter it map it to a pretty quote about how the abyss is sort of scary . . . [nodding heads] meanwhile i’m looking around and going 𝘴𝘰??? https://t.co/2GP46wa238
It’s like a semantic stop sign. a kind of mini-psy-op of “haha, the abyss is kinda of scary, anyway, moving on kids” it felt exactly like being rushed along by a first-grade teacher https://t.co/n00qYN8Fwo https://t.co/RalRnkAbMj
nerdy kid is like but, but, but, that doesn’t sound right teacher: there is nothing to see here https://t.co/cqYcEJuhrU
i don’t see the teacher’s actions as bad anymore but it’s a little mind-fucking when you’re a curious young kid and you don’t know yet how to deal with the fact that yeah, adults really won’t tell you things, and normies operate in very strange, interesting, https://t.co/izRMpAb9VE
(from perspective of nerd) non-trivial ways https://t.co/XD1w7ZGGnq
am i as annoyed by the fuller quote? (no) https://t.co/QNRY9b8qPC
the fuller version of this quote is “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. If you gaze long enough into the abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” https://t.co/E5oV06CECv https://t.co/dO06SlJTVT
