Nietzsche and the Death of God (Part 1)
How to Take Over the World
Benjamin Wilson
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🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to a podcast called How to Take Over the World, but you don't really want to take over the world, do you? |
| 0:08.6 | That would be wrong. That would be dangerous. Everyone can agree on that. If you're a liberal, then you should make your life about equality. |
| 0:16.0 | How dare you set yourself up over other people? Your life should be about doing as much good for as many people |
| 0:21.5 | as possible. And if you're conservative, then your life should be about duty, about serving others, |
| 0:25.7 | serving God, serving your country, serving your family. Left and right, divided in so many ways, |
| 0:30.6 | are united on this. You should live for others. Do not live for yourself. Do not try to take over the |
| 0:37.0 | world. This is the message of our time but friedrich |
| 0:42.0 | nietzsche stood apart and taught something different he looked at the modern world and diagnosed our |
| 0:47.0 | neuroses with more accuracy than perhaps any other philosopher to the current day and he taught a philosophy |
| 0:52.6 | that was completely at variance with accepted wisdom it isn't't good to live for others. It's good to live for yourself. Cruelty is good. Tyranny is good. Your lust for power is not just the best part of you. It's the only part of you. Despite this, Nietzsche was probably not what you think he was. We often think of Nietzsche as dark, hateful, and destructive, |
| 1:12.2 | as a nihilist in the most basic meaning of the word. |
| 1:15.1 | But he wasn't like that at all. |
| 1:16.6 | He always insisted that he taught a philosophy of lightness and life. |
| 1:22.4 | So today we examine the life and teachings of Friedrich Nietzsche, |
| 1:25.6 | the philosopher who taught us why we really |
| 1:27.5 | should want to take over the world. |
| 1:43.7 | I just want to say from the bottom. I'd just want to say from the bottom of me heart, I'd going to show you how great I am. This is Let's have Siamisdial. |
| 1:45.3 | I just want to say from the bottom of me heart, |
| 1:47.9 | I'd like to take this chance to apologize to absolutely nobody. |
| 2:00.2 | Hello, and welcome to Take Over the World. |
| 2:02.7 | This is Ben Wilson. |
| 2:04.0 | On this part one of the life of Friedrich Nietzsche, we will talk about the first half of his life. |
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