I’m starting to read “Thus Spoke Zarathustra.” I bought it a few years ago mainly because the title is awesome. I think Will Emigh and I then talked about how ridiculous the title is.
Well, this sounds pretty dumb, but I was watching “Little Miss Sunshine” the movie where one of the characters reads Nietzsche. I thought to myself, “yeah, Nietzsche is probably pretty cool,” and I realized that I have assumed that sometime in my life I would read Nietzsche–that it would be impossible to live and not read Nietzsche.
Then I realized that the only way I was going to read anything by Nietzsche was if I actually up and did it. And guess what? I LOVE THE BOOK. I don’t know why, and I’m sure that most people who’ve read “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” would be offended that I like it, but I am at a point right now where I’m reading several texts and they all seem to coincide. Everything from “the 80/20 Principle” to Zen Buddhist texts to Nietzsche says to discover yourself. Nietzsche (er sorry, Zarathustra)–who I don’t agree with on this point–just thinks that people who don’t discover themselves should die off.