nietzsche
Original: nietzsche on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Caption (top): PHILOSOPHY TIP: ABOUT HALF OF NIETZSCHE'S APHORISMS READ LIKE A TECHNICAL SUMMARY FOR A STANDUP COMEDY ROUTINE
Panel 1: A mustachioed man (styled as Nietzsche) stands at a microphone on a brick-walled stage, performing standup to an audience.
Nietzsche: "Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and ages, it is the rule."
Panel 2: Close-up of Nietzsche at the mic, gesturing.
Nietzsche: "One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior."
Panel 3: A woman in the audience laughs.
Audience member: "So true! It's so true!"
Panel 4: Nietzsche continues his set.
Nietzsche: "Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact woman is essentially unpeaceable, like the cat, however well she may have assumed the peaceable demeanor."
Panel 5: The audience roars with laughter.
Audience laughter: "HAHAHAHAHAHA"
Panel 6: Close-up of a grinning, satisfied Nietzsche.
Nietzsche: "The fellows know of what I speak!"
Votey:
Nietzsche (to the audience, pointing): "This lady in the front row has assumed the peaceable demeanor despite being by nature unpeaceable, am I not right, sir?"
(Below: two audience members in the front row look up at the towering figure of Nietzsche on stage.)
Panel 1: A mustachioed man (styled as Nietzsche) stands at a microphone on a brick-walled stage, performing standup to an audience.
Nietzsche: "Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and ages, it is the rule."
Panel 2: Close-up of Nietzsche at the mic, gesturing.
Nietzsche: "One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior."
Panel 3: A woman in the audience laughs.
Audience member: "So true! It's so true!"
Panel 4: Nietzsche continues his set.
Nietzsche: "Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact woman is essentially unpeaceable, like the cat, however well she may have assumed the peaceable demeanor."
Panel 5: The audience roars with laughter.
Audience laughter: "HAHAHAHAHAHA"
Panel 6: Close-up of a grinning, satisfied Nietzsche.
Nietzsche: "The fellows know of what I speak!"
Votey:
Nietzsche (to the audience, pointing): "This lady in the front row has assumed the peaceable demeanor despite being by nature unpeaceable, am I not right, sir?"
(Below: two audience members in the front row look up at the towering figure of Nietzsche on stage.)
Alt text
A six-panel comic styling philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as a standup comedian. A top caption reads: "PHILOSOPHY TIP: ABOUT HALF OF NIETZSCHE'S APHORISMS READ LIKE A TECHNICAL SUMMARY FOR A STANDUP COMEDY ROUTINE." A mustachioed man in a suit stands at a microphone on a brick-walled stage, delivering real Nietzsche aphorisms as comedy bits. He says: "Insanity in individuals is something rare -- but in groups, parties, nations, and ages, it is the rule," then "One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior." A woman in the audience laughs, "So true! It's so true!" He continues, "Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact woman is essentially unpeaceable, like the cat, however well she may have assumed the peaceable demeanor," and the crowd erupts: "HAHAHAHAHAHA." In the final panel he grins smugly and says, "The fellows know of what I speak!" Votey (aftercomic): Nietzsche points into the audience and says, "This lady in the front row has assumed the peaceable demeanor despite being by nature unpeaceable, am I not right, sir?" while two front-row audience members look up at his looming figure. The joke is that his pompous, dated, sexist aphorisms land like an awkward standup routine bombing into heckling territory.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.