Christopher Hitchens dies at 62 after suffering cancer

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Egan

I recommend his last article for Vanity Fair: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/20...itchens-201201

Interesting article. I'm not familiar with most of his work, but his expressed philosophy on religion apparently closely parallels my own. As to that article, I've always believed that Nietzsche was speaking of the mind, not the body, which for me at least puts a whole different spin on things.

[Skybird]

Nietzsche is extremely easy to be misunderstood, turning his strong defence of indiviudality, nobleness and non-conformity into a position of claimed racism, turning his defence of a healthy self-reliance and his antagonism for the softy Christian church dogma and its forged softy message into a claim that Nietzsche was anti-faith and again nihilistic, and turning his concept of the Übermensch into a claim about either Marvel-comic like Supermen or again a racist idea of a superior race (which made him so attractive to abuse for the Nazis), where in fact he was talking about the transcending of human nature into a humane evolution that leaves behind our lower instincts and drives that are like shackles binding us to the fear of death and the primitive grounds of fatalistic life. He is almost Buddhistic there, and if you also get reminded of Emerson, who occassionally mentioned him as I currently find out, then this is by no randomness only.