Hello, everybody and welcome back to Red Menace.

So for today's episode, we're doing something very different than what we've done before,

which is diving really into like modern philosophy proper.

And for this episode, we're going to be covering Arthur Schopenhauer and Frederick Nietzsche.

We're going to talk about their contributions to philosophy, their idea of the will, which Schopenhauer

sort of creates and Nietzsche takes in new and different directions, their historical context,

et cetera. This is fascinating, I think, in its own right. These are two giants of modern

philosophy and, you know, regardless of whether or not we can shoehorn them into a political

discourse, I think it's worth knowing what and how they thought because I think a lot of their stuff comes down in the form of culture, if not politics, and really sort of shapes the way a lot of us think, even if we don't know it.

But also we're going to be putting these thinkers on the table so that we can move forward.

And the next document or text we're going to cover is, is his name Julius Ivola?

Yes.

Julius Ivola, the famous fascist writer who draws from Nietzsche, who draws from Schopenhauer.

So this is a trajectory into a fascist work. What's the work we're going to be

covering next month, Allison? Ride the Tiger. Ride the Tiger. So check that one out. If you want to

prepare it all. Of course, you don't need to prepare. You can come into these conversations and let us

walk you through it. But for some people, they like preparing. So this episode's going to be a little

different than our normal structure in that we're just going to do two large scripted parts where I talk about Schopenhauer.

Allison talks about Nietzsche.

And then we're going to go into a long discussion about their influences, their relationship to Eastern philosophy and some other things as well. It's going to be a more open-ended organic discussion. And if you stick around past the outro music, we're also going to each of us take a few quotes from our respective thinker, and we're going to just talk about them, why they're important, why we might like them, comment on them for a second.

Do you have anything to say at all up front as a way of introducing this episode, or do you just kind of want to dive into it? Yeah, I can maybe give a little bit of context. So I think just up front,

these are two really fascinating thinkers that have had just an absurd impact on the world, right,

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