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[Brendan]

Nietzsche would have puked at the thought of the Nazis using what he
wrote, which isn't to defend him totally, he was definitely misogynistic
and a few other things (so was most of the country at the time), but
saying he was an inspiration for the Nazis is about as accurate as saying
that the Beatles were an inspiration for Charles Manson. It was a one way
street...some nutters take inspiration from what they will, doesn't mean
there's anything inherently evil in it in the first place.

Comparing KJ to the Nazis is plain thick. Comparing them to Nietzsche is
in some ways valid. Jaz amusingly points out that he lost interest in
Nietzsche when he found out that he lived with his Mum =)


> Actually, 5 paragraphs devoted to Killing Joke in Simon Reynolds bok,

> near the back, in the section on goth. And they're not very flattering

> paragraphs, really.

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> (I posted all 5 paragraphs fromt he book to the list maybe a month ago.

> Reynolds said the Killing Joke -- and he spoke of them in the past

> tense, too -- were somewhere between Nietzschean and Nazi. No kidding.)

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> -Oliver

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>>> PS: I had another interview a day earlier with the culture editor of

>>> a reputable media outlet, and we similarly ended up talking about

>>> music. Turns out her husband is none other than Simon Reynolds, the

>>> celebrated music critic who wrote the arguably authoritative

>>> post-punk tome, "Rip It Up And Start Again" (75 pages devoted to

>>> Scritti Politti, 9 pages devoted to Killing Joke).

>>>

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