An intelligent sociopath (and fiercely proud of it) Fredrick Nietzsche wrote with the panache of a high-paid opinion columnist. His hostility to decorum, found in nineteenth century Europe a target rich environment, and he delighted in the slaughter of sacred cows. He seems to have considered his own thought a diamond mine of brilliant insight, and could connect disparate dots into a cats-cradle of "logical" inference. In a phrase once addressed to me after an episode of bar-room erudition "if you can't dazzle them with logic, baffle them with bull shit."
What a guy!
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