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So by now you're probably realizing something about nature.

You're probably realizing well, if for no other reason, just because I've needlessly rambled about it over the course of this entire series. But what you probably realized by now is that Nietzsche's not writing his philosophy so that each and every single person in the world can write it down and take a little something from it.

He's writing his philosophy for a select few people that are actually going to try it existence. He's writing it for a small handful of people that aren't interested in feeling like they know everything about the world.

But people that are actually going to try to understand things deeper than they've been led to believe about things over the course of their life. I mean at any stage of life, it's very easy to be coaxed into complacency about how you look at the world.

I mean, I'm sure we can all imagine some 45 year old person and they're listening to some passionate 21, 22 year old person and they have strong reinforced convictions about how people are and how the world works and all kinds of things like that.

And the 45 year old may save themselves. Look kid, I've been where you are before. I too used to think I knew everything about the world. But you know what happens. Here's what happens. Live a couple years longer. If you failed marriages later.

If you hated discussions at a PTA meeting eventually you're going to wake up and realize how the world actually works like I do. Believe me, I've been where you are before.

Whenever I read Nietzsche's philosophy, I always see him. It's like this 120 year old guy and he's talking to that 45 year old and he's saying, you know what, sonny, I've been where you are before. You know what happens.

See a few more presidential elections. Place in badminton down at the YMCA. Watch a few more seasons of the prices right like I have then. Then you'll understand how the world actually works.

Or maybe, just maybe you'll come to terms with the fact that this whole life thing is actually much bigger than that. That maybe a hundred years is just not enough time to become as well versed in things as you want to believe you are.

Well, there are certain subjects out there that people like to tell themselves they've arrived at a destination about some subjects are more common than others. And one of the most common ones is the concept of love.

We all feel like we know what love is. We all felt it before, right? Powerful concept. Love. Probably not a big surprise that so many philosophers over the years have tried to take a closer look at it and understand it better.

And given how good it feels to experience love, probably not a big surprise that so many people build their lives around feeling it or giving it or spending time with the people they love the most.

Some people even take this to the extreme. Some people say that all you need is love.

Now they look around them the world understandably. And they think there's people stealing from each other. People are killing each other.

Cyberbullying is the pandemic scourge of our time. Look, all these philosophers try to complicate things. It's actually very simple. Everyone just needs to love each other.

If only we could show everyone in the world how great it is to love people. These people say love is some sort of panacea for all the world's problems.

Instead of dropping nukes, we should be dropping giant canisters of DVDs of when Harry met Sally. If only the whole world understood love like I do, then everything would be fixed.

But the way that it treats somebody that you love hasn't always been the way that Harry treated Sally.

No, the things we do in the name of love have changed drastically over the course of history and could easily change in the future.

You know, 100 years ago, my kid could have... I don't know. Let's say they went down to the grocery store and got an ice cream cone without permission.

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