Nobody understands Nietzsche (except me) - by Sam Kriss
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And maybe Frantz Fanon
There’s never a good time to encounter the Antichrist, but when I first ran into Friedrich Nietzsche I was fourteen years old, and that’s the worst time of all. The fourteen-year-old Nietzsche reader is AJ Soprano upsetting his family by announcing the death of God: a deeply annoying little twerp. They are not sophisticated readers, fourteen-year-olds, and when they come into contact with Nietzsche they all seem to suddenly discover the same thing: the reason none of the other kids like them isn’t that they’re generally weird and uncomfortable to be around, but that they’re actually…
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