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.

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, etc. This is fascinating, I think, in its own right. These are two

giants of modern philosophy and 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 Evola? Yes. Julius Evola, 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? Right, the tiger. So check that one out if you want to

prepare at 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 is 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, you know, Eastern philosophy

and some other things as well as 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

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