Priming? Beaudrillard is associated with humanities, pomo and academic philosophy; Nietzche is associated with atheism, contrarianism and the idea of the ubermensch. The comment doesn’t seem to be very strongly downvoted; possibly you’re just dealing with detractors here (I daresay LW has more fans of the latter than of the former).
This was roughly my thought as well. I thought there might also have been more substantive differences though and I was curious what those might be. The only thing I could see is that Baudrillard’s quote had a tone that’s more critical of the masses and the way they do politics, and that Baudrillard’s quote could be misread as an injunction to stop trying to make people rational (which it’s not).
Priming? Beaudrillard is associated with humanities, pomo and academic philosophy; Nietzche is associated with atheism, contrarianism and the idea of the ubermensch. The comment doesn’t seem to be very strongly downvoted; possibly you’re just dealing with detractors here (I daresay LW has more fans of the latter than of the former).
This was roughly my thought as well. I thought there might also have been more substantive differences though and I was curious what those might be. The only thing I could see is that Baudrillard’s quote had a tone that’s more critical of the masses and the way they do politics, and that Baudrillard’s quote could be misread as an injunction to stop trying to make people rational (which it’s not).