how accurate is this? do you agree with it? his official career

However, there is nothing wrong with envy, maintained the philosopher. What matters is how we handle it. Greatness comes from being able to learn from our envious crises. Nietzsche thought of envy as a confused but important signal from our deeper selves about what we really want. Everything that makes us envious is a fragment of our true potential, which we disown at our peril. We should learn to study our envy forensically, keeping a diary of envious moments, and then sift through episodes to discern the shape of a future, better self. The envy we don’t own up to will otherwise end up emitting what Nietzsche called ‘sulfurous odours.’ Bitterness is envy that doesn’t understand itself. It is not that Nietzsche believed we always end up getting what we want (his own life had taught him this well enough). He simply insisted that we must become conscious of our true potential, put up a heroic fight to honour it, and only then mourn failure with solemn frankness and dignified honesty. 2. Don’t be a Christian Nietzsche had some extreme things to say about Christianity: ‘I call Christianity the one great curse, the one intrinsic depravity… In the entire New Testament, there is only person worth respecting: Pilate, the Roman governor.’ This was knockabout stuff, but his true target was more subtle and more interesting: he resented Christianity for protecting people from their envy.
Christianity had in Nietzsche’s account emerged in the late Roman Empire in the minds of timid slaves, who had lacked the stomach to get hold of what they really wanted (or admit they had failed), and so had clung to a philosophy that made a virtue of their cowardice. Christians had wished to enjoy the real ingredients of fulfilment (a position in the world, sex, intellectual mastery, creativity) but had been too inept to get them. They had therefore fashioned a hypocritical creed denouncing what they wanted but were too weak to fight for – while praising what they did not want but happened to have. So, in the Christian value system, sexlessness turned into ‘purity’, weakness became “goodness,” submission to people one hated “obedience” and, in Nietzsche’s phrase, “not-being-able-to-take-revenge” turned into “forgiveness.” Christianity amounted to a giant justification for passivity and a mechanism for draining life of its potential.

3. Never drink alcohol
Nietzsche himself drank only water – and as a special treat, milk. And he thought we should do likewise. He wasn’t making a small, eccentric dietary point. The idea went to the heart of his philosophy, as contained in his declaration: ‘There have been two great narcotics in European civilisation: Christianity and alcohol.’
He hated alcohol for the very same reasons that he scorned Christianity: because both numb pain, and both reassure us that things are just fine as they are, sapping us of the will to change our lives for the better. A few drinks usher in a transient feeling of satisfaction that can get fatally in the way of taking the steps necessary to improve our lives. It’s not that Nietzsche admired suffering for its own sake. But he recognised the unfortunate – but crucial – truth that growth and accomplishment have irrevocably painful aspects: “What if pleasure and displeasure were so tied together that whoever wanted to have as much as possible of one must also have as much as possible of the other. You have a choice in life: either as little displeasure as possible, painlessness in brief or as much displeasure as possible as the price for an abundance of subtle pleasures and joys.” Nietzsche’s thought recalibrates the meaning of suffering. If we are finding things difficult, it is not necessarily a sign of failure, it may just be evidence of the nobility and arduousness of the tasks we’ve undertaken.

4. “God is Dead”
Nietzsche’s dramatic assertion about the demise of God is not, as it’s often taken to be, some kind of a celebratory statement. Despite his reservations about Christianity, Nietzsche did not think that the end of belief was anything to celebrate. Religious beliefs were false, he knew; but he observed that they were in some areas very beneficial to the sound functioning of society. Giving up on religion would mean that humans would be left to find new ways of supplying themselves with guidance, consolation, ethical ideas and spiritual ambition. This would be tricky, he predicted.
Nietzsche proposed that the gap left by religion should ideally be filled with Culture (philosophy, art, music, literature): Culture should replace Scripture. However, Nietzsche was deeply suspicious of the way his own era handled culture. He believed the universities were killing the humanities, turning them into dry academic exercises, rather than using them for what they were always meant to be: guides to life. He particularly admired the way the Greeks had used tragedy in a practical, therapeutic way, as an occasion for catharsis and moral education – and wished his own age to be comparably ambitious. He accused university and museum-based culture of retreating from the life-guiding, morality-giving potential of culture, at precisely the time when the Death of God had made these aspects ever more necessary.
He called for a reformation, in which people – newly conscious of the crisis brought on by the end of faith – would fill the gaps created by the disappearance of religion with the wisdom and healing beauty of Culture.

Conclusion
Every era faces particular psychological challenges, thought Nietzsche, and it is the task of the philosopher to identify, and help solve, these. For Nietzsche, the 19th century was reeling under the impact of two developments: Mass Democracy and Atheism. The first threatened to unleash torrents of undigested envy and venomous resentment; the second to leave humans without guidance or morality. In relation to both challenges, Nietzsche worked up some fascinating solutions – from which our own times have some highly practical things to learn, as he would dearly have wished.

Nietzsche's views on alcohol reminds me of Terence McKenna and what he said about it.

As we began to eat mushrooms/our foods with honey, we began to regularly ingest alcohol. Alcohol has virtually the opposite effects of psilocybin; it promotes ego, it deadens the mind and senses, and it promotes violence and laziness.

As we settled along the Nile and similar places, we learnt large-scale agriculture as a more efficient means of storing food, and our alcohol consumption continued rising, giving birth to social hierarchies (a consequence of ego), male-dominated societies (a consequence of violence) and the first city-states.

It's definitely changed my perspective on alcohol. Thus spoke The Decline of the West.

>>9019330
Youre dead wrong about nietzsche and envy. Nietzsche never said a good thing about envy.

>>9019347
it's not my text. i'v only started to read beyond good and evil so i wanted to know from anons who have actually read nietzsche, how accurate this is.
so you think this is just made up babbling and not actually nietzsche's worldview?

>>9019353
I'd say it's mostly accurate.

>>9019357
except the stuff about envy?
could it be he touched on the subject in a work you haven't read yet or are you sure?

>>9019353
If you haven't read any Neitzche, it's better to start with Thus Spoke Zarathustra. He himself said that book contains basically everything important he had to say.

>>9019346
>promotes violence and laziness
alpha male fucking gorillas dude are pretty fucking lazy and super violent every once in a while maybe alchohol is bad but it seems like you're thrusting towards some weird buddha state shit

what do u think about that

>>9019383

Just contrasting civilizations before alcohol, civilizations that used mushrooms instead, when true pastoralism occured - it's the cattle/human/mushroom triad that reinforces the partnership, non-dominant, orgiastic style. Although I do wonder how the Greek's consumption of alcohol influenced their culture.

Nice points thanks. However op can you tell me more about what he says about what an individual can do more to improve himself?

lmao dude
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHWbZmg2hzU

>>9019659
what's your point? i know where i got that from. just wanted to know how accurate that is

>>9019659
Holy shit
OP BTFO

>>9019374
Are you trolling on purpose, or do you actually believe this is a good idea to start with this?