Aesthetic Materialism

On this blog, I've argued that the aesthetic of materialism is boring. I've also stated that philosophy is whatever I find interesting. Therefore, to be a materialist philosopher means learning how to say something interesting about the boring. 

    It's true that Nietzsche wrote a book entitled "Beyond Good and Evil".  But don't be too quick to assume that, just because Nietzsche wrote a book with this title, that implies that Nietzsche believed that good and evil don't exist.  It's perfectly possible to believe fully that there is a real difference between good and evil, and, at the same time, to be able to speak of something that is "beyond" this distinction.  In an analogous way, "north" and "south" are real directions, but there are places where this distinction is no longer so clear or relevant - such as, floating in intergalactic space.  Likewise, "port" and "starboard" are meaningfully and usefully distinct, yet they have little applicability outside of a boat or some similar vessel, "stage left" and "stage right" only make sense in the context of a stage, and so on.