Why are Nietzsche's predictions so unerringly right?

[aneeshm]

The scattered predictions he made throughout his works can be seen to be coming true, one by inexorable one. It's quite interesting, come to think of it, and evokes a certain amount of awe. Even his moral psychology is being vindicated by recent research in the heritability of morality, moral traits, and intelligence.

The question being, of course, as to how far this will go and why this is so.

Opinions?

 

[warpus]

Can't really comment unless you point out which predictions came true..

 

[puglover]

My skepticism still stands unless you can produce these predictions.

 

[Mise]

Can't really comment unless you point out which predictions came true..

Yeah, and which ones didn't.

 

[GuitarHero]

Seriously, put your money where your mouth is, Aneeshm.

 

[Tabasco Sauce]

Seriously, put your money where your mouth is, Aneeshm.

That is deliciously ironic coming from you.

 

[aneeshm]

OK.

Prediction about the abolition of the institution of marriage, for one.

About the nature of the moral psychology of humans, for another.

About the onset of nihilism, and a certain absence and devaluation of all values as the aftermath of Christianity in the West, for a third.



All three pretty huge, I'd say.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

Actually, I think we should be asking someone other than aneeshm to go through Nietzsche's works and find predictions, so that we not only see how many predictions might be right, but also how many might be wrong.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

No matter what those left wing ideologists say. he was right. A lot of people can't handle that so they lie to themselves.

 

[Mise]

Actually, I think we should be asking someone other than aneeshm to go through Nietzsche's works and find predictions, so that we not only see how many predictions might be right, but also how many might be wrong.

That's exactly what I said!

 

[aneeshm]

Actually, I think we should be asking someone other than aneeshm to go through Nietzsche's works and find predictions, so that we not only see how many predictions might be right, but also how many might be wrong.

??????????

 

[GuitarHero]

That is deliciously ironic coming from you.

Piss off. I'm trying to add to a conversation, so why don't you just go get eaten by a wolf!

 

[aneeshm]

Given that all the biggest ones came true - the most important one pertaining to the devaluation of all values and the onset of nihilism in the post-Christian age in the West - I'd say everything else is rather trivial by comparison.

 

[Mark1031]

OK.

Prediction about the abolition of the institution of marriage, for one.

About the nature of the moral psychology of humans, for another.

About the onset of nihilism, and a certain absence and devaluation of all values as the aftermath of Christianity in the West, for a third.



All three pretty huge, I'd say.

but those have not come true.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

You really do need to be more specific. And demonstrate how he has a better success rate than, say, Nostradamus.

 

[GuitarHero]

It's funny how we keep on slamming Aneeshm.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Well, he was the one who brought it up . . .

And since he uses the word "unerringly" in the thread title, we can disprove his hypothesis by finding one prediction Nietzsche made that hasn't come true.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Piss off. I'm trying to add to a conversation, so why don't you just go get eaten by a wolf!

No, you're jumping on the bandwagon of insisting on anneshm's divulgence of information. Which adds nothing to the conversation, all it does is annoy people and make you look like a fool.

To aneeshm: How many of these predictions did Nietzsche make? Further, why is it really important if any of his predictions are, to whatever extent, right?

 

[GuitarHero]

No, you're jumping on the bandwagon of insisting on anneshm's divulgence of information. Which adds nothing to the conversation, all it does is annoy people and make you look like a fool.

To aneeshm: How many of these predictions did Nietzsche make? Further, why is it really important if any of his predictions are, to whatever extent, right?

You're doing the same thing.

 

[Stolen Rutters]

Is the OP talking about some coming "crisis of nihilism", or something? Decline of Judeo/Christian morality? A prediction of a "world without god or gods"?

A quick internet search turned this up:
Nietzsche, On the genealogy of morals, p.161.
Morality will gradually perish now: this is the great spectacle in a hundred acts reserved for the next two centuries in Europe – the most terrible, most questionable, and perhaps also the most hopeful of all spectacles.

I don't see it. Sorry. (edit - sounds poetic enough, though.)
edit2 - considering this is reserved for Europe, I CAN'T see it from here (here being Michigan), so I won't say it isn't coming true, though. It's just not convincing. Especially since it is supposed to be "unerringly" true (meaning it's completely true and no exceptions can be found... NOT!).