A lot of the spider and not enough of the bee

Neitzche advises rejecting the creation and gives us a superman who is more like Zod. Powerful...yes, but all destruction without creation. Anyone can destroy. It is an act of desperation, not contemplation. Arrogant and difficult to learn from. The best thing that can be said is that he advises us to reject superstition and to question authority. It’s quite sad to hear his yearning for eternity in a world where he values nothing except power. Even the Eagle that he thinly claims to love is a barren symbol in that it’s nobility is not expanded upon except for its remoteness from the world and its freedom from company.
Despite his low regard for us shopkeepers and householders he nevertheless tries to sell a product...but unfortunately it’s a selfish one, like a gold backscratcher. Does he like Mozart? With his intellect he may have unearthed and fashioned a superman like that but instead decided to be so esoteric and spiteful that he didn’t create one superman beyond himself, and, like Wilde’s Remarkable Rocket, his genius blazed friendless in a field, in a day that was like a starless night.

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Largely self aggrandisement

Not nearly as good as "Beyond Good and Evil", but an important work nonetheless. Largely consists of saying the same thing over and over. He needed an editor.

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19th Century Trolling

There will always be crusaders wielding contemptuous sarcasm and cynicism to destroy established ideas. As Nietzsche was an intellectual juggernaut and influential historical contributor to this sort of thinking, his attacks are worth becoming familiar with.

Unfortunately, I did not find this book as accessible as 'Beyond Good and Evil'. The style is too poetic and ambiguous. When it seems like he's finally winding up to a point, he says 'Thus spoke Zarathustra' and I'm left shrugging. I would be surprised if anyone could understand all the content without listening to it twice and constantly replaying segments, and I am unwilling to do either.

It could be helpful to supplement with clearly articulated interpretations by modern philosophers rather than relying solely on this source material.

A bit of conceptual destruction and recreation is healthy to avoid stagnation, but Nietzsche is almost all destruction; he doesn't offer much besides 'power' to fill the vacuum left behind in his wake. For example, the arguments around power as the great virtue are creepily reminiscent of Lavayan Satanism or the power = truth dystopias described by Orwell.

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Gibberish

This book would make sense to idiots and knuckle heads fools low iWatch humans . One

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