In this week's installment we consider the Will to Power and an essential human drive that posits our seeking out suffering as a signal of resistance to our will.  We also consider season 1 episode 5 of Forever Knight, 'Dance by the Pale Moon Light" about a stripper who seduces men to lie, steal, and kill for her.  Can Nick exert his own will to keep from falling into corruption?  How did Janette seduce Nick into becoming vampire 800 years ago?  

Tune in gentle listeners...

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Sources for this episode include:

F. Nietzsche, (1886( Beyond Good and Evil

F. Nietzsche, (1882) The Gay Science 

F. Nietzsche, (1883-5) Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Arthur Schopenhauer, (1819) World as Will and Representation

Bernard Reginster, (2006) The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism