.., at least in principle, individuals and communities are free to adopt whichever models they prefer and, better still, no model at all. This seems to go without saying. Our world has always believed that "to be innovative" and "to be imitative" are two incompatible attitudes.
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This was already true when innovation was feared; now that it is desired, it is more true than ever. The romantic historian puts innovation on a par with foundation and creation itself, the creation ex nihilo, no doubt, that, up to that time, had been exclusive monopoly of...
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... the biblical God. A complete break with the past is viewed as the sole achievement worthy of a "creator." Just as the measure of a painter's talent is now his capacity to innovate in painting, the measure of a lover's love is his or her capacity to innovate in the...
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... field of love-making. To be "with it" in the France of 1920, one had to be "innovative" even in the privacy of the boudoir. What a burden on all lovers' shoulders! Far from exorcising the urge to mimic famous lovers in literature and history, compulsory innovation can only...
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... inflame it further. This is how inconsistency has become the major intellectual virtue of the avant-garde. But the real credit for the tabula rasa school of innovation should go to Nietzsche, who was tired of repeating with everybody else that a great thinker...
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... should have no model. He went one better, as always, and refused to be a model - the mark of genius. This is still a sensation that is being piously repeated today. Nietzsche is our supreme model of model-repudiation, our revered guru of guru-renunciation.
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Poor Nietzsche is sooo misunderstood!!! He actually HATED innovations; especially the type exhibited in 'science and technology'. After all; he strongly believed in ARISTOCRATIC/traditional rule over the Imperialist/Democratic/Capitalist/Scientific/Industrial 'innovations'.
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Perhaps he didn’t realize his own innovations haha Girard is saying that his refusal to be a model is an innovation, not that Nietzsche is not a classicist who intends to return to paganism and to nature.
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That is a tricky one. He was never really given a chance to be a model due to his views. A modernist interpretation of Nietzsche is bound to completely fall apart as he rejected all models. But it is very hard to determine if he never wished to be a model himself; an Aristocrat.
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Yes it is hard to say because his unpopularity was probably not by choice. I would say though that his focus on certain people creating their own values and perhaps his own attempt at that are an attempt to not be a model. Girard would says it’s impossible NOT to be a model.
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I do wonder though because of Nietzsches sickly nature and lack of finesse with the ladies that he in truth must have seen himself as not one of the powerful and thus not worthy of emulation.
He did ask, “why am I so wise?” Though 
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...So Clever... Such An Excellent Writer, etc... He put 'Why I am such a Fatality' in the same theme! LOL
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