Philosophy Now Forum

Have you ever wondered whether everyone talks about you behind your back? Whether they are all keeping something from you? John McGuire discusses the Cartesian nightmare that is The Truman Show.

http://philosophynow.org/issues/32/The_Truman_Show

An interesting perspective, even if not a pleasant one.
We naturally like the feeling of belonging to a group, of being an ally in an association.

Some few do not mind that everybody is against them. Nietzsche positively wanted to be a hermit and alone. He wanted his disciples to despise him.

Some times in the past I felt as if the dead could see me from the beyond. As spirits or ghosts.

Once I read Zarathustra and laughed because of the exaggerations there but I would not have laughed in Nietzsche´s presence because he expressed his honest and bitter opinions about something and laughing at them would have made me feel mean.
Somehow I stopped laughing then, wondering whether Nietzsche´s soul could not be watching me at that particular moment.

Death is a mystery.