From Pine View Farm

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Friedrich Nietzsche:

Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Bill Shade, my history professor for the Early Federal Period when I was in grad school, was fond of saying that “history is irony.”

Ironically, Niectzshe went insane towards the end of his life.*

But that doesn’t mean he was insane when he wrote this.

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*The program at the link is currently available on Netflix and is well worth your while.

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