“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:16| simonsheridan.me
While I was doing the initial analysis for what turned into my most recent book on the relationship between Nietzsche and Wagner, I had something of an epiphany about what might seem to be a completely unrelated subject. I realised that the New Testament is what I call an Orphan Story. Long-term readers might remember … Continue reading "The New Testament as Orphan Story: Part 1"| Simon Sheridan
“So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.” Revelation 3:16| Simon Sheridan
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When historians analyse major historical developments, they have tended to do so through the lens of political power, which makes sense purely from a narrative point of view since political stories usually involve great personalities and dramatic events which seem to turn the entire tide of history in one fell swoop. On closer inspection, however, … Continue reading "The Origins of Feminism: Part 2"| Simon Sheridan
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve stumbled across several unrelated posts online claiming to explain the reasons behind the rise of feminism, including one amusing conspiracy theory whereby the minds of women have been explicitly targeted to bring about the downfall of western civilisation. Since this is a subject I ended up dealing with … Continue reading "The Origins of Feminism: Part 1"| Simon Sheridan
If you’d told me a year ago that I was going to write a book about Nietzsche and Wagner, I’d have said you were mad. I stumbled ass-backwards into the whole concept about nine months ago when I realised a correspondence between Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamzov and Wagner’s final opera, Parsifal. Thinking that I’d finally cracked the code of Parsifal (famously Wagner’s most difficult story), I remembered that Nietzsche had hated the opera and went back to see what he wrote ...| Simon Sheridan
Humans have a cognitive bias for linear functions. One of the ways in which this manifests is that we expect the magnitude of the cause and the magnitude of the effect to be equal. This expectation works well in everyday situations. If you throw a rock, the more effort you put into the throw, the further the rock will travel. The larger the rock, the heavier you expect it to weigh etc. Linear functions, or at least what we perceive us as linear functions, form the basis for everyday life....| Simon Sheridan
I had intended to continue releasing excerpts from my upcoming book for the next few weeks, but this idea has been derailed since I’ve had to do a fairly significant re-write of the opening chapters on account of the fact that the book refused to end in the manner which I expected. Given this will be my ninth innings, I really should know by now that a book is not over until the fat lady sings, and she has a habit of belting out a different tune to the one in my head. In any case, this is a...| Simon Sheridan
This is the fourth excerpt from my upcoming book titled The Initiation of Nietzsche: Wagner’s Disciple. Anybody stumbling upon this without having read the first three should consider reading those first, since the argument made here builds upon the earlier posts. With that said, here is the excerpt.| simonsheridan.me
This is the second excerpt from my upcoming book titled The Initiation of Nietzsche. For anybody who has not read the previous post in this series, the text below should make some sense, but it does build on the earlier argument. For the best reading experience, you might consider reading the earlier post first. With that said, here is the second excerpt.| Simon Sheridan
It’s one of those synchronicities that happens to me quite regularly that just after I had finished writing my blog post from about a month ago explaining why we are in the middle of a period of mass inflation that is not counted by the official statistics, I stumbled across a news story which suddenly made clear exactly why the government is lying about inflation. The lies are not just the usual propaganda that greases the wheels of politics. There’s something much more fundamental going...| Simon Sheridan