"First You Create the Work, Then the Work Creates You" Thoughts while reading on Nietzsche life
TLDR: We often believe a person's work reflects who they are—but the deeper and more original the thinker, the harder it is to reconstruct their true self from their output. Each work shows only a fragment or perspective, and when these are combined, we get a distorted average. With time, misinformation and false attributions further corrupt the picture. This not only distorts how we see the past, but how the future understands the present. The only antidote may be deep, critical thinking and truth-oriented systems—like science—that resist narrative distortion.
What this essay is not about: It is not about Nietzsche life but rather the question if original thinkers works whether we are able to re-create or understand the original thinker.
paul_riston•6mo ago
TLDR: We often believe a person's work reflects who they are—but the deeper and more original the thinker, the harder it is to reconstruct their true self from their output. Each work shows only a fragment or perspective, and when these are combined, we get a distorted average. With time, misinformation and false attributions further corrupt the picture. This not only distorts how we see the past, but how the future understands the present. The only antidote may be deep, critical thinking and truth-oriented systems—like science—that resist narrative distortion.
What this essay is not about: It is not about Nietzsche life but rather the question if original thinkers works whether we are able to re-create or understand the original thinker.
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