Nietzsche loves a dance party: “No Government”
Fine! I’ll go halfway…
Nietzsche on song and dance via The Birth of Tragedy:
In song and in dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community; he has forgotten how to walk and speak; he is about to take a dancing flight into the air…He feels himself a god, he himself now walks about enchanted, in ecstasy…He is no loner an artist, he has become a work of art: in these paroxysms of intoxication the artistic power of all nature reveals itself to the highest gratification of the Primordial Unity”.
This weekend’s song–No Government by Nicolette–correlates quite well with the quote above…for a number of reasons.
For one, the techno beat.
Secondly, the lyrics border on a naive form of anarchism, which–if you ask me–is, well, fairly naive. The quote above is similarly incomplete and Nietzsche will be the first one to tell you. Tune in next week for the why!
