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“By midwit, I do not mean that Nietzsche was a midwit, I actually mean something completely different and unrelated”

I stopped reading after this

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Chris Trevino's avatar

My priest conveyed a story about this: in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov has a dream where he a child and he sees a horse being beaten senselessly in the street. He’d moved to pity by the cruelty of it, shattering his illusion of a superman beyond pity.

On the day he went mad, Nietzsche saw a horse being beaten by its driver, and he ran out and put his arms around it’s neck sobbing. Within days he was in a mental hospital

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