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>Nietzsche is himself guilty of every accusation that he bitterly throws at Wagner. He himself is the aphorist, who is unable or doesn't want to create something grand and coherent. He himself is the man of nuance, the relation, the finest and most fleeting associations, the rarest, delayed, most deep-seated sensations. And what concerns the will to effects - well, he really doesn't fall behind Wagnerians in this regard. His style proves this no less than his success which - to use his own words - tells against him as it tells against Wagner. Both are typical decadents but there's a difference. Wagner is, as it were, naive, believes in himself, doesn't know that he is decadent. But Nietzsche is more sincerely and truthfully - as he believes - conscious of it. Now a fact isn't overcome simply via diagnosis. I will not become healthier by knowing that I am sick. But this knowledge brings with it one thing: it makes me face myself differently. That's why it's so typical of the decadent that he cannot stand himself. Today that's all too often the reason for the preference of many people for ancient art from finished epochs - in music e.g. for the art of Mozart and Bach. You flee into the distance because you can't bear closeness; above all, you want to forget yourself and everything related to it, forget it as thoroughly as possible, just so as not to have to meet yourself. Where Nietzsche rages against Wagner, he rages against himself.
>Nietzsche is himself guilty of every accusation that he bitterly throws at Wagner. He himself is the aphorist, who is unable or doesn't want to create something grand and coherent. He himself is the man of nuance, the relation, the finest and most fleeting associations, the rarest, delayed, most deep-seated sensations. And what concerns the will to effects - well, he really doesn't fall behind Wagnerians in this regard. His style proves this no less than his success which - to use his own words - tells against him as it tells against Wagner. Both are typical decadents but there's a difference. Wagner is, as it were, naive, believes in himself, doesn't know that he is decadent. But Nietzsche is more sincerely and truthfully - as he believes - conscious of it. Now a fact isn't overcome simply via diagnosis. I will not become healthier by knowing that I am sick. But this knowledge brings with it one thing: it makes me face myself differently. That's why it's so typical of the decadent that he cannot stand himself. Today that's all too often the reason for the preference of many people for ancient art from finished epochs - in music e.g. for the art of Mozart and Bach. You flee into the distance because you can't bear closeness; above all, you want to forget yourself and everything related to it, forget it as thoroughly as possible, just so as not to have to meet yourself. Where Nietzsche rages against Wagner, he rages against himself.
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