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Tuesday, August 30, 2005

The Hater in History

Posted by on August 30 at 14:45 PM

Reading Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality, I came across this passage, which deserves special attention from hiphop scholarship:

The truly great haters in the history of the world have always been priests, also the most ingenious haters:—compared to the spirit of priestly revenge all the rest of spirit taken together hardly merits consideration.

The birth of the hater!