Homer, hyperbole & ad hominem

[jbor]

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>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
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> Yes, Nietzsche was a literary and social critic, and
> therefore your analogy might make more sense if you compared
> Millison and Monroe with him, but your analogy likens
> Monroe and Millison to the Nazis who you say used "selective
> and self-serving interpretation of
> Nietzsche's work which they constructed off their own bat."

This is inaccurate. The analogy pertained to the way written text was and is
being "interpreted", i.e. selectively, illegitimately. The reservation I
expressed -- viz. that "I have no idea what they might be capable of" --
was, in respect of the analogy I was making, meant to clearly differentiate
between what the Nazis did do, and what millison & monroe and the legacy of
their "interpretations" might be capable of, at some future point, given a
comparable set of circumstances and consequences.

I do not understand your final two sentences.

>From your original slight -- viz., "[t]he analogy doesn't work, anyone with
even a spoonful of Nietzsche knows why" -- I had supposed that you might
have something germane to say about Nietzsche's thought, which I would have
been interested to hear. Apparently this wasn't the case.