What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World

The Art of Manliness

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Friedrich Nietzsche is famous for espousing a philosophy that may be a help in wrestling with existential angst and finding meaning in life.

My guest would say that Nietzsche’s philosophy may also be useful for figuring out something else: how to have a healthy relationship with modern technology. His name is Nate Anderson and he’s the author of In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us About Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World. Today on the show, Nate, who’s a deputy editor at the website Ars Technica, shares how someone who grew up loving technology and has spent his career writing about it, reached a point where he felt disenchanted with its effects on his life, and why he turned to the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche for insights on how to approach tech more fruitfully. We then turn to the way tech has made life too safe, easy, and frictionless, and how Nietzschean goals, asceticism, and creative, self-overcoming exertion can help us find deeper fulfillment. Nate unpacks four Nietzsche-inspired guidelines for information consumption, the importance of the physical body in thinking and feeling, and our need to embrace greater Dionysian energy and perhaps live a bit more dangerously.

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0:34.3	Frederick Nietzsche is famous for spousing a philosophy that may be a help in wrestling
0:37.8	with existential angst and finding meaning in life.
0:40.3	My guests would say that Nietzsche's philosophy may also be useful for figuring out something
0:43.9	else.
0:44.9	How to have a healthy relationship with modern technology.
0:47.2	His name is Nate Anderson and he's the author of Inemergency Breakglass.
0:50.7	Nietzsche can teach us about joyful living in a tech-saturated world.
0:54.0	To end the show, Nate, who's a deputy editor at the website, ours Technica, shares
0:57.3	how someone who grew up loving technology and his spin is career-writing about it, reached
1:00.9	a point where he felt disenchanted with his effects on his life and why he turned to
1:04.3	the philosophy of Frederick Nietzsche for insights on how to approach tech more fruitfully.
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