Insulting people is a sales exercise, which is why so many wannabe trolls are absolutely incapable of it.
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No insult hurled at you can upset you unless a part of you believes it.
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For whatever reason this sales angle you brought in made me think of Nietzsche.
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Just explains one element of the STYLE that he so emphatically uses.
I've often wondered why his sentences have jagged edges, so to speak.
I think I now recognise at least some hint of salesmanship. (Among other things ofc)
Just associated with him straightaway.
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In a sense, I hate this expansion of sales to include everything, even when I use it myself.
In another, it's just the most available shorthand people have for persuasion.
And yeah his style was absolutely irreplacable. One could wish to be so succinct and yet emphatic.
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You're so right!
I've often struggled with this too, specially with writing.
I don't think it can be escaped. It's always been in the air for us, I think.
Yeah the insult-persuasion thing had me thinking of the start of Genealogy of Morals.