Anarchonomicon - October 02, 2026


Ep38 “Which Way Western Man？” Part 7 (Nietzsche 2) w⧸Brynhildr

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00:01:00.000 The Moustache Man 1.00
00:01:30.000 We came here to kill Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, sick in the head. 0.99
00:01:34.840 He announced to us all that Jah was dead. 1.00
00:01:41.540 Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, sick in the head.
00:01:49.300 Announced it to us all that Jah was dead. 0.96
00:01:55.660 Morality was whatever you wanted it to be.
00:02:00.000 Now we all ubermensch, now we all agree
00:02:03.280 There are castles everywhere for those without ecstasy 1.00
00:02:07.700 Now the village, them stupid, lost in the fray 1.00
00:02:13.620 The herd, them follow that Christianity 1.00
00:02:16.540 Slave morality, they worship in the weak and gay 1.00
00:02:20.580 They must be ended if we are to one day 1.00
00:02:24.440 Man, they trap between the beast and the job
00:02:27.900 One day we're going to ascend to the highest of them all.
00:02:31.460 But getting in the way, Babylon has said, nobody going to be strong, you'll all be weak instead. 0.94
00:02:39.160 Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, sick in the head. 0.96
00:02:46.840 Announced it to us all that Jawa slay. 1.00
00:02:53.200 Morality was whatever you wanted it to be. 0.97
00:02:57.320 Now we are Lupermensch, now we are free.
00:03:01.260 There are castles everywhere for those with eyes to see.
00:03:07.280 Hello, hello, glorious listeners, and welcome back to another exciting episode of the Anarchonomicab podcast.
00:03:13.720 I am joined again today by Bryn Hilder, say hello.
00:03:18.040 Hello.
00:03:18.460 So today we are returning to William Gailey, Gailey Simpson's Which Way Western Man, chapter, I should have had this drawn up, chapter four, The Minium Nietzsche for the Modern World, part two.
00:03:34.720 uh just grab where we left off so uh in the previous post
00:03:42.080 pose we went through Nietzsche's sorry uh Simpson's introduction to Nietzsche
00:03:47.720 and now continuing exactly where we left off
00:03:51.480 but now let me submit a few passages in which Nietzsche himself states his position
00:03:59.520 in one of the earliest of his papers we find this
00:04:03.660 culture which is chiefly a real need for art rests upon a terrible foundation in order that
00:04:11.600 there may be a broad deep and fruitful soil for the development of art the enormous majority must
00:04:17.060 in service of a minority be slavishly subjected to life struggles to a greater degree than their
00:04:22.520 own wants necessitate. Slavery is of the essence of culture. And again, if it should be true that 0.78
00:04:31.980 the Greeks perished through their slavery, then another fact is much more certain that we shall
00:04:39.620 perish through the lack of slavery. End quote. And this position has confirmed repeatedly throughout
00:04:46.600 his life in the joyful wisdom uh that is just as an aside the joyful wisdom is like usually
00:04:54.700 translated as the gay science um in the joyful wisdom we find quote everything strengthening
00:05:01.720 and elevating the type of man also involves a new form of slavery end quote and still later we come
00:05:09.900 upon this quote every elevation of the type of man has hitherto been the work of an aristocratic
00:05:16.340 society and so it will it always be a society believing in a long-scale gradation of rank and
00:05:23.560 difference of worth among human beings and requiring slavery in some form or other end quote
00:05:29.980 uh so this this like right now like because we've been discussing this like online and everywhere
00:05:40.740 uh like the past like 20 years well he actually seems kind of obvious that's like no we need
00:05:48.060 profound differences in gradation of people um the actual character of like the necessary slavery
00:05:55.220 is almost like certainly change like like uh we don't need uh like the elderly and like
00:06:03.880 the senile elderly and like 0.91
00:06:06.380 incompetent like drugged out 1.00
00:06:08.320 blacks and like 1.00
00:06:10.140 like 1.00
00:06:11.600 migrants who don't 1.00
00:06:14.640 speak English and are incapable of being 1.00
00:06:16.480 obeying the law or doing productive work 1.00
00:06:18.540 we don't actually need them to like work fields
00:06:20.480 anymore we have machinery for that 0.97
00:06:22.220 like the actual productive capacity
00:06:24.520 of um western
00:06:26.500 society is like so 0.95
00:06:28.720 stupendous 0.62
00:06:30.260 that like 0.71
00:06:32.160 the need for like incredible amounts of physical labor like uh almost all physical labor now is
00:06:42.080 an adjunct to like mental labor like like the hardest physical jobs actually involve an
00:06:47.200 extraordinary amount of judgment today which is like the purpose the purpose of them like if you
00:06:53.840 become like an oil worker prospector or like a lineman like uh you're being primarily hired
00:07:02.420 hired for your ability to like make judgments and do like complex tasks and like the physical
00:07:07.920 hardship of the job is like coincidental or secondary to that it's like oh we need you to
00:07:13.980 do like this complex physical task and like skilled work in like some incredibly like remote
00:07:21.700 location and like actual like like physical like grunt work like like a picker at a warehouse or
00:07:31.180 um or like someone on a factory line uh all those jobs are either either a lot of them are
00:07:41.660 explored to the third world but like anywhere in the western world where they're done it's like
00:07:46.000 automated as can be and like either the person is doing like the most menial like
00:07:53.660 like clog work uh just loading stuff into a hopper with like no little physical exertion
00:08:02.360 or like they're an incredibly skilled technician maintaining the machines like uh the actual
00:08:08.320 like uh like someone actually doing like a blacksmith level of like physical grunt labor
00:08:17.060 uh to produce something like non-artisanal or expressive is incredibly rare and like
00:08:24.880 all of a sudden like dies with the person doing it you know like they're in some factor there
00:08:30.800 will be like a machinist who is like doing things in a very like 1960s, 1940s way, you
00:08:41.560 know, doing everything by hand, you know, actually, but either his job is like being
00:08:51.500 eliminated or like has turned into like a craft profession that like people compete
00:08:56.840 for like a, like a, maybe one of like the hardest physical jogs that's like still like
00:09:03.100 held over from the past and like unchanged since like the 1880s is like a farrier, like
00:09:09.480 someone who, like a blacksmith who only works on like horseshoes and like attaches horseshoes
00:09:15.080 to horses and like, like, like a harves the horse's hooves so that they'll like, to like
00:09:23.620 remove rotten like to fit a horseshoe uh and that work is like basically unchanged because you have
00:09:29.320 to like manually like wrestle the horse to like get its leg like locked so that you can like shave
00:09:35.720 off its hoof and then like put a shoe on it which is like amazing like very good for the horse
00:09:41.980 because like their hooves like break if they have to like pull or like lift any like the hard um
00:09:48.060 hard object like shoes are good for horses like doing anything like physical just like there
00:09:54.260 just like a you know you couldn't hike 40 miles barefoot uh yeah but uh but like the actual work
00:10:04.960 involved in that is the exact same as the 1880s but like you know people compete for that job
00:10:10.040 like it's a high cast job now yeah i like i was watching recently there's a youtube channel i
00:10:16.260 think it's called like ancient skills and they produce some really lovely documentaries they're
00:10:21.620 like real footage from i don't know like the 60s or the 50s and they show these guys forging bells
00:10:29.380 which i have like a 10 hour long episode opinion about bells but it's a it's a it's a craft that
00:10:38.020 has gone almost out of existence now the forging of brass bells like church bells and it was it's
00:10:44.900 like amazing watching these guys do this work because it would be considered almost like slave
00:10:49.300 level work as far as how hard it is but it's a comp it's an almost completely dead craft like
00:10:56.240 it's a it's a knowledge set that has almost disappeared from the face of the earth so
00:11:01.780 knowing how to forge a bell in the old way now would be like a high caste like an elite
00:11:08.300 occult kind of knowledge now because most people just nobody would have any idea how to make a
00:11:15.680 bell and there's so much um overhead is the word that comes to mind but that's not quite right it's
00:11:23.080 like the like being able to own the forge the the means of production I guess are they just don't
00:11:32.140 exist anymore it would be like so exorbitant to invest into a bell foundry now because wealth is 1.00
00:11:39.180 all tied up in fake and gay stuff like software and social media platforms and bitcoin and like 1.00
00:11:46.160 you know wealth is determined by things that have no physical reality for virtually no physical 0.98
00:11:51.660 reality anymore so even being able to like do something like shoe a horse or forge a bell or
00:11:56.940 like even grow your own food is elite by virtue of its like um its preciousness it's um you you
00:12:06.460 know it's it's not common it's literally not common anymore where if you take the opposite
00:12:12.320 of the meaning of the word common it's like elite right it's like it becomes elite just by virtue of
00:12:17.900 the fact that common people actually can't do that stuff anymore yeah so um but this is where
00:12:25.220 i want to like intercede because uh like we talked about nietzsche uses language of slavery aristotle
00:12:33.220 uses language of slavery and like in a lot of ways it's an archaic discussion because like
00:12:39.240 our problems in society are not at all related to like physical scarcity of food or like any natural
00:12:48.160 like like absolute scarcity like but sorry go ahead but uh like the reason all the discussion
00:12:57.540 of slaves still matter is we have like the fundamental problem of like all these people
00:13:03.140 who are like essentially incapable of being like three independent people you know incapable of
00:13:11.380 like self-determining yeah being a self-determinant rugged individual uh you know with their
00:13:20.380 legislator of their own values yeah and and they're like pissed on their hip ready to defend
00:13:28.720 their livery and and whatnot yeah like uh all these people who are like like even if they're
00:13:37.680 not doomed to become like slaves working at field i like doomed to be like some other type
00:13:43.280 of slave you know like right like servicing an addiction or like yeah or like uh finding their
00:13:50.240 way into some like miserable like like some like miserable position like like uh basically out of
00:14:01.360 like social inertia um right like that problem has not gone away and it's only expanded
00:14:08.500 and yeah and there is there always is slavery right the like the question is what is the value
00:14:16.660 of that institution in which direction is that institution oriented and right now it's like
00:14:21.840 the slave class is bigger than ever and there is like a a cast of people that rules europe and 0.81
00:14:30.820 rules the West, America generally, that have power to import these slave classes from the third 0.83
00:14:38.140 world. But it's like, what is the function of those slave classes now? It's not really to 0.74
00:14:43.900 produce goods. It's not to produce sustenance or to like make clothes or grow food or anything like
00:14:49.520 that. That's not really the like reason that the so-called elites are immigrating these vast
00:14:59.100 swathes of people from the third world the function that they really serve now is is an
00:15:04.080 oppressive function like it's it's like um it's like um it's like a military force in a sense 1.00
00:15:11.020 but like a dishonorable military force that is not really fighting they are like like they're
00:15:17.740 being imported as like a utility monsters like they're being imported as like a
00:15:23.960 is like a moral burdens yeah they're they're being imported to demoralize the native 0.88
00:15:32.800 european and like like white american populations like they're being imported to
00:15:39.280 i don't know if this is even the conscious purpose of their import but like you know that
00:15:44.440 phrase the purpose of the system is what it does it's like what what these imported third world 0.95
00:15:51.320 people actually do to the native populations of European and European countries and America is 0.99
00:15:58.500 they demoralize that population. Like having to live cheek by jowl with these people is so
00:16:07.660 depressing. Like that's something, one of my favorite things Nietzsche says and talks about
00:16:12.380 is the way that he describes beauty. And on the other hand, the way that he describes ugliness
00:16:17.420 and ugliness is like basically it's a depressant it makes you sick like if you have to look at it
00:16:23.420 all day long it literally makes you ill like it drags you down it's like if you want to talk about
00:16:28.700 it in terms of vibrational frequencies right it has this like density of frequency that drags you
00:16:35.100 down it's like has this leaden quality to it which is the opposite of you know the the lightness at
00:16:42.620 the heights the ability to scale mountains the ability to ascend right like ugliness has this
00:16:48.400 leadenness that like sinks you down into the depths and the more you're exposed to it and the
00:16:53.840 more you have to look at it and be around it and live next to it and work with it and ride the bus
00:16:59.340 with it and see it at the grocery store like the more it drags you down to that heaviness and that
00:17:06.120 like sickness and that inability to then be self-sufficient and be self-determined and take
00:17:12.800 care of yourself and just basically like enjoy your life so whatever the given and stated reason
00:17:19.680 for importing these slaves if they pick the fruit or run the slaughter is these more these uh
00:17:28.040 zombies like these uh yeah cockroaches these these these like ethical zombies were like uh
00:17:35.720 you saw this with us aid where um we're like uh because elon cut money that was going to like
00:17:45.780 like liberals will tell you he killed 300 million people and it's like worse than chairman
00:17:50.360 now and it's like wait a minute so so bob from iowa without his realizing it was having money
00:17:58.980 stolen from him to pay for like 300 million people in other countries he didn't know
00:18:03.120 but because you successfully like got 300 million people dependent on bob from iowa
00:18:08.600 uh like bob realizing this and like electing someone to stop people stealing from him
00:18:18.880 like all suddenly that's murder you know like if bob like it had never like incidentally given
00:18:27.560 money to these people it wouldn't be murder but because uh like someone behind bob's back like
00:18:34.220 like was siphoning money off from him to give to these people all suddenly it's like no you can't
00:18:40.700 cut that that funding that's that's gonna result in death that's gonna result in murder like you've
00:18:46.280 been incidentally made morally responsible for for these people by virtue of having your money
00:18:52.600 stolen by them that's why you can't even enter into these arguments from utility because they
00:18:58.180 are like i mean at the risk of sounding vulgar myself like they're fundamentally vulgar an
00:19:05.120 argument from utility is almost always a vulgar argument and if you're going to let yourself be
00:19:11.120 drawn into that kind of moral argument like there is no winning that argument it is it the purpose
00:19:17.700 of that argument again is just to demoralize you it's like just to bum you out and if you have to
00:19:24.200 like engage with that kind of vulgarity like you necessarily become vulgar by that engagement
00:19:30.960 it's like Nietzsche says in uh I don't know where but like be careful when you're fighting monsters
00:19:38.040 because you might turn into one like if you're trying to have these vulgar arguments from
00:19:43.540 utility with liberals like you necessarily become vulgar by even accepting the terms
00:19:49.640 like accepting the axiomatic arguments that inform utility as some sort of fundamental value that we
00:19:57.720 all should be striving to maximize like if you're going to that and then step into the ring and have
00:20:03.400 an argument about it like you're automatically just as vulgar as they are yeah so like boy this
00:20:12.380 is why they they do it because as soon as they like get you in that discussion as soon as they
00:20:18.300 like get the pressed and set that the money is going out yeah or you know the fundamental suddenly
00:20:25.340 there's there's this vast need as soon as they have like 300 billion dollars going to the black
00:20:31.900 kids in africa some leave like there's this vast need for administrators who can get paid full time
00:20:37.280 to administrate that you know yeah and the real like the power move of the vulgar the power move
00:20:45.740 of the like all too many is to get you to agree tacitly or to like put you in a position where
00:20:52.040 you're unable to argue against or defend yourself against the assumption that the highest value in
00:20:57.900 life is to multiply the all too many. Like the highest purpose of human existence is just to
00:21:04.880 breed cockroaches or keep zombies alive forever, like you said. And that's where we're really
00:21:15.200 running into a fundamental disagreement with Christianity and why you cannot accept Christian
00:21:22.100 values as your ultimate value system. If you want to have any like beauty or capacity for
00:21:28.700 self-determination or capacity for nobility or autonomy, like for that to even be possible in
00:21:35.280 the world, you can't accept the premise that the highest value is to just make as many people
00:21:41.540 alive for as long as possible forever and ever. Amen. No, exactly. So I will
00:21:51.280 continue on, taking off with Simpson. The above paragraphs on Nietzsche's view in regards to
00:21:59.860 slavery were in explication and application of his conviction that life was will to power.
00:22:07.720 That as such, it always involves a will to master something, a will to achieve some kind of
00:22:13.320 expansion in the sentencing, that in operation, all life was observed to live on other life,
00:22:20.580 that human life could in no wise be accepted from this prevailing rule.
00:22:24.660 In fact, it was precisely the highest human life
00:22:27.460 that laid its levy upon other human life most heavily.
00:22:31.200 We may or may not like Nietzsche's idea at this point,
00:22:33.740 but for the moment, I'm less concerned to win conviction
00:22:36.120 than to make it clear what his idea was.
00:22:39.280 The idea carries with it a far-reaching and very significant implications.
00:22:46.760 Its shadow fell across Darwin's theory of evolution.
00:22:50.580 This one-sided doctrine he undertook to correct.
00:22:54.160 Darwin had said life is struggle for existence.
00:22:57.020 Nietzsche replied, in effect,
00:22:58.540 Not at all. What does not exist cannot will.
00:23:01.240 What does exist cannot will to exist.
00:23:04.360 It wills to power, to some sort of mastery.
00:23:07.580 Indeed, it was only the weak, clean to like precariously,
00:23:10.620 who were ever content to seek mere self-preservation.
00:23:14.480 Wherever life was strong, with energy in abundance and to excess,
00:23:18.120 it never aimed at mere self-maintenance.
00:23:20.240 mere survival it aimed at some extension of its power in nature quote in nature it is not the
00:23:28.100 state of distress that prevails but superfluity in prodigality to the point of folly the struggle
00:23:35.340 for existence is only an exception a temporary restriction of the will to live the struggle be
00:23:40.600 great or small turn to everywhere on predominance on increase and expansion on power in conformity
00:23:47.940 to the will to power which is the will to life unquote and quote a living thing seeks above all
00:23:55.120 to discharge its strength self-preservation is only one of the results thereof end quote and um
00:24:02.340 to just uh like quickly make nietzsche accord with darwin uh like what nietzsche's observing
00:24:10.060 is the natural state of like any system that like seeks to survive long term like uh
00:24:15.440 like if you're on if you're surviving on a like a desert island and you're only like just barely
00:24:21.920 feeding yourself like uh as soon as there's like a harsh storm or whatnot uh you're gonna have like
00:24:28.180 redundancy to survive like yes you need like a lot of superfluous like uh building of strength
00:24:34.060 just for the sake of strength or like uh or like uh building like more advanced shelter for the
00:24:40.440 sake of building more advanced shelter because uh that's what actually gives you redundancy
00:24:44.440 like uh like birds that seem frivolous in like their fly ability like far in excess of their
00:24:51.320 ability to like hunt prey and whatnot well that's what gives them the competitive advantage later
00:24:56.240 on against other predators when uh you know the food support source is like restricted by like
00:25:03.080 some disaster or whatnot like uh it's yeah but the see why this isn't like a moral concern and
00:25:09.600 it's just like it's a it's an observation about life what happens with darwinism right is it gets
00:25:15.920 turned into a religion and people start to think it's a value system that like evolution is some
00:25:20.820 something like some sort of evaluative process and the way that darwin expressed or like
00:25:27.300 described the process of evolution like you can't interpret that as a process of evaluation because
00:25:33.740 it isn't really and when you become like when you when you have an excess of strength and create
00:25:40.520 all these redundancies which will provide for your survival in the case of like a catastrophe
00:25:47.600 in the future those things end up attracting parasites and that's what's happened in the
00:25:54.720 west is like we there is such an excess of strength on display in western man that he does
00:26:02.260 create all these redundant systems and he has so much surplus and so much like excess of wealth
00:26:07.480 that he isn't using all the time that he's storing up for these catastrophes you know wisely but then
00:26:13.920 those systems end up being very vulnerable to to corruption and very vulnerable to like zombies
00:26:19.740 basically and parasites and so this is just the cycle of life right is that like you have these
00:26:26.380 creatures like you know western man like european man that just have this abundance of strength that
00:26:32.020 ends up instantiating itself in these like social and political financial and just physical 0.55
00:26:41.440 infrastructures that can support way more people than western than like white people are capable 0.85
00:26:47.580 or like choose to breed you know like so then you end up having all of these people come in 1.00
00:26:52.800 from the third world and taking advantage of those structures and then just like if any body 0.76
00:26:58.920 gets overrun with the parasite it eventually sickens weakens and dies like that's sort of
00:27:03.380 what's happening in western culture right now and i don't know if it's necessarily like it i mean it
00:27:08.520 is a moral failing but it's also like how do you prevent that how do you tell a um you know a
00:27:14.820 creature of abundant strength like just rein it in because if you over create or over produce then
00:27:21.120 a parasite is gonna later come take advantage of that and maybe make you sick and die like
00:27:25.520 i don't know that you can prevent that from happening well if life is just going to be a
00:27:31.500 if you think of like animals that that embody this like overabundance like um like most like
00:27:41.860 beautiful birds like whether it's the bald eagle or like heaven help us the can of goose like uh
00:27:48.100 they have like these vast migratory patterns that they exert a lot of their energy on and that like
00:27:54.240 uh actually greatly helps our like population expansion that's like oh you have all this
00:28:00.780 mass territory that like you're able to to subsist off of and whatnot that's been expanded by this
00:28:07.320 incredible like seemingly unnecessary outlay of like energy like why aren't you you know why aren't
00:28:15.740 you like staying in one spot and saving all this energy and becoming like a groundhog
00:28:20.720 but uh like that gives it the redundancy that like you know you're never gonna really kill
00:28:27.600 off the geese because they're they're everywhere and they're persistent they can survive off like
00:28:33.880 anything and they're they like range you know 10 000 miles um and you can see like western man
00:28:43.560 like converting his energy into that with like the age of exploration and uh and the quest to space
00:28:51.080 and there's actually a book uh by paul kersey whitey on the moon uh that's about how um
00:28:59.840 basically as soon as the uh the paul missions landed on the moon uh this became like an infinite
00:29:07.140 argument for like more welfare uh you can even hear it in like some prince songs you know
00:29:13.080 uh what is it a sign of the time the sign of the times or that song uh that uh
00:29:21.420 that uh the uh my sister killed her baby because she couldn't afford to feed it but they're sending
00:29:29.640 people to the moon and it's like no one there's no one in america in like the 70s who couldn't
00:29:34.580 afford to feed her kids their kids his sister killed her baby because she was like addicted to
00:29:39.820 drugs you know and wanted to afford war drugs but because like you know this positional good you 1.00
00:29:48.580 know you know how much uh how much illegal substance can you shoot into your arm was
00:29:54.540 contradicted by uh by society she killed her baby so so because of this like artificial scarcity 0.99
00:30:04.140 that was purposely produced 1.00
00:30:05.680 for moral reasons, 1.00
00:30:07.860 Whitey can't go on the moon 1.00
00:30:09.220 because that takes money 1.00
00:30:11.720 and like hypothetically
00:30:12.840 that money was what
00:30:14.000 his sister wanted 0.92
00:30:14.780 despite the fact that
00:30:16.260 like money is not
00:30:17.180 the living factor.
00:30:18.060 You can print
00:30:18.420 infinite amounts of it.
00:30:19.380 Right, right. 1.00
00:30:20.700 The reason she won money 1.00
00:30:22.220 was to inject it 0.88
00:30:23.040 into her arm 0.80
00:30:23.560 which we're trying 0.95
00:30:24.180 to stop her from doing. 0.92
00:30:26.020 Right.
00:30:27.660 But, uh...
00:30:29.320 Yeah, and I think
00:30:30.120 it's like the other way
00:30:30.980 that excess of energy
00:30:33.220 historically gets used is in war and like it could be argued I suppose that western man has become
00:30:42.000 too peaceful and that's like it's like you're saying sedentary like either you're expending
00:30:48.180 that energy by like running around the earth like the geese do or you're expending it by like
00:30:54.000 fighting people and killing each other and stealing stuff and that you can think of like
00:30:59.680 if you think of it very simply in terms of you know the ancestors of European man being these
00:31:05.300 invading tribes from the steppes like they spent some number of thousands of years migrating west
00:31:12.240 and subjugating all of the native populations of like hunter like Neolithic farmers that were there
00:31:17.820 at that time and that took a certain amount of energy that kept them healthy and kept them
00:31:23.520 from taking on too many parasites you know they weren't like they've been like literally when you 0.99
00:31:28.820 settle down and become sedentary you're like living in your own shit to some degree 0.98
00:31:33.920 and if you're migratory you're not doing that and like i guess we western man reached into all of 0.98
00:31:42.780 the frontiers on earth and even is extending himself into space now but like too many western 0.99
00:31:48.320 men are just like living in their own shit and of course that attracts paradise parasites like 0.99
00:31:54.680 of course that leads to decay and like weakness and sickness so I one thing I wonder I guess is 1.00
00:32:04.840 like I don't think there is any happy ending like I don't think there is any like utopian future 0.54
00:32:10.880 like if we just figure our shit out as a culture and like stop letting the global south invade us 0.96
00:32:17.460 and rape our daughters and steal our resources like i don't necessarily think that means that 0.97
00:32:22.680 we're just gonna like be happily ever after living in eden like in this land of abundance
00:32:28.000 where everybody just has more than they need and there's redundancy to protect us in the face of
00:32:33.940 any catastrophe like i think what makes western man western man is that like he doesn't stay put
00:32:38.800 he doesn't make sure that everything is easy for himself and like if ever there is abundance
00:32:44.100 he essentially sacrifices it to his gods
00:32:48.340 in an orgy of bloodshed.
00:32:51.900 Yeah, this is one of the things that
00:32:55.580 the phrase Nietzsche uses to describe Darwin
00:32:59.020 or maybe it's an original line from Darwin
00:33:02.020 life is the struggle for existence.
00:33:06.620 Adolf Hitler uses that line
00:33:08.300 it's also often like all attributed to him
00:33:11.680 that it's like uh he's advocating for like this social darwinistic uh life as a struggle
00:33:17.760 for existence but like he uses it like as a lamentation and like uh that like germans are
00:33:26.160 doomed to have these these uh these wars and there's no way out of it and like we have to
00:33:34.380 accept this harsh reality so that we can survive like you know the five empires are inevitably
00:33:42.240 going to try to destroy us you know yeah i mean which is that that's his interpretation of world
00:33:47.340 war one but that's also hitler like as a like a represent like hitler as a symbol of the decline
00:33:55.120 of the german race because if you even look back to you know the german religion the pagan german 0.93
00:34:02.420 religion like that whole religion is organized around celebrating the fact that y'all just have 0.90
00:34:09.100 to keep fighting and fighting and killing each other and like literally german heaven and german 0.92
00:34:14.840 pagan heaven is where you get to go and just like murder your friends all day every day and then
00:34:19.880 respawn and do it the next day yes the the eternal cod lobby yeah and so it's even like a decay from
00:34:28.900 that ancient strength of our ancestors that there's like a feeling of sadness that we have
00:34:34.960 to be in constant warfare like ever renewing ever returning bloodshed yes and that's that is like a
00:34:45.660 shift in like uh like that's one of the tensions if you like read hit hitler or like uh anything
00:34:53.720 he talks about is that like he bounces back and forth between the two like sometimes he like
00:34:59.100 really embodies like the joy of it and sometimes it's like really a lamentation and and it said
00:35:07.680 what he what is the like true interpretation of course will be eternally debated but uh
00:35:17.380 hopping back to simpson the idea of nietzsche's that life was willed to some kind of mastery
00:35:25.340 has no less negative bearing on several doctrines that are popular with egalitarians pacifists
00:35:31.420 and psychiatrists for for instance he was contemptuous of the prevalent democratic
00:35:36.220 prejudice that would make environment a more determining influence than heredity
00:35:40.920 life was not to be explained as mere adaptation and adjustment result of giving in to environment
00:35:49.420 the fruit of what might be called appulsive appeasement certainly strong strong life and
00:35:56.200 it is strong life which alone is healthy in which alone in the long run matters never conducts
00:36:02.620 itself in such a fashion strong life masters its environment finds a way to exploit it and to use
00:36:08.020 to it's on a bench life remains will to power and just as an aside like this should be like
00:36:15.200 actually fairly obvious that like you know everyone wants to say that like oh your parents
00:36:23.620 were like mean to you or your mother was like overbearing or uh your dad didn't pay play catch
00:36:31.680 the requisite amount of times and that's like what cripples you meanwhile like meanwhile like
00:36:38.640 no one would accept like oh i was raised in like alberta and it's minus 40 half the year and like
00:36:46.880 the air will literally kill you ergo that's like crippled my prospects in life it's like
00:36:52.880 dough you you have ways to overcome that there are infinite ways to overcome that millions of people
00:37:00.120 have like overcome that and actually become like significantly wealthier than people who live in 0.99
00:37:04.240 more temperate climates the fuck is wrong with you and as soon as it's like uh some like neurotic
00:37:10.380 like psychological thing uh that like weirdly never maps onto like normal like gentile populations 0.98
00:37:18.400 like it only accurately describes like like a subset of jewish women uh suddenly that becomes
00:37:25.500 like all determining and of course and like uh the reason it becomes all determining is because
00:37:31.680 the idea is not like meant to actually describe reality or like how human civilization exists
00:37:38.000 it's meant to like grant ammunition for like arguments at like holiday meals and like help
00:37:45.580 you extract money from like like your parents and grandparents well it's just the like it's the
00:37:52.620 it's the resentful negating form of the will to power like all life is the will to power the from 0.99
00:38:00.420 the lowliest shit-eating parasite to the most glorious like achilles type man to ever walk the 0.95
00:38:08.220 face of the planet like that's what nietzsche is asserting right all of life is the will to power 0.99
00:38:13.060 and like everyone's just playing to their strengths if you will and for like a lot of people a lot of
00:38:20.140 creatures like weakness is their strength and so they're playing to that like pity like pity is the
00:38:27.360 vector by which you spread disease like you spread the suffering of of your disease to other people
00:38:32.840 by pity and so of course you know weak people construct these entire worldviews like Christianity
00:38:38.800 is one such worldview liberal progressivism is another such worldview that is constructed by
00:38:44.140 weak people like which weaponizes their weakness against the strong yes uh
00:38:53.200 uh and as religions advance you see this like more and more that like uh 0.81
00:39:01.840 now like uh is western islam is eternally questing for like like the more to accommodate 0.78
00:39:09.600 the more it's questing for like a prosecuted status like all these uh activists on campuses 0.85
00:39:15.040 who the more resources they're given for like uh religious centers and whatnot the more they have
00:39:21.040 to advocate that they're really really oppressed and they need more resources or like obviously
00:39:26.480 like a psychology exactly works like this or like transgenderism that uh that not only do you need
00:39:35.600 hundreds of thousands in surgery but you need like all this social and emotional like a combination
00:39:41.120 you know yeah there have been i'm eternally hearing about like extreme autists and like
00:39:50.260 people with personality disorders who adopt uh transgenderism largely as a way to like advance 0.93
00:39:56.440 their career yeah it's it's the wisdom of the parasite like it's the wisdom of the 0.87
00:40:03.020 the shapeshifter camouflage kind of insect power yeah you might
00:40:11.640 you might know uh you might have dated this type of person uh dear reader you may have dated this
00:40:19.600 void who uh who is eternally like crippled and emotionally dependent dependent and like
00:40:28.540 cannot live without your support whenever you're doing well and like are attractive but the second
00:40:35.520 you get like slightly fatter the second you're like between jobs or uh or you know the second
00:40:42.220 she's like mad at you or like looking at another guy totally she doesn't need that emotional
00:40:47.820 support anymore you know suddenly suddenly all the like suicide threats and uh like
00:40:53.880 like crippling like anxiety that you need to switch 0.64
00:40:57.900 some way some way she can just like be productive for weeks on end
00:41:03.800 without like any input from you how strange 0.95
00:41:07.000 yeah she's just getting high some she's getting high somewhere else so she 0.99
00:41:12.040 doesn't need she doesn't need you as a drug anymore 1.00
00:41:14.680 girls just want to get high that's that's how girls are they just want to 1.00
00:41:20.020 be like they're all maynads all women are maynads they just want to get fucked up this is why tear 0.99
00:41:26.300 a goat open in the forest under the moonlight this is why dear reader like ignore all the 1.00
00:41:33.460 pickup artists the actual way you pick up women is just by becoming a cocaine dealer
00:41:37.440 like that's the actual that's the actual secret is like don't wear the mystery hat if you just
00:41:45.520 find like if you just find a reliable source of cocaine like the women will appear yeah or you
00:41:52.700 know the spiritual equivalent of that like the the way to win a woman's heart is just to intoxicate 0.99
00:41:59.060 her like woman is the mania like she is the madness of divine madness like women just want to be 0.92
00:42:07.180 it literally the literally the only way to get a woman horny is to get her drunk somehow like 0.99
00:42:13.700 on wine on coke on fantasies on delusions on promises and lies like there's so many different
00:42:22.640 drugs in the world like you just have to be an artful this is how the yoga retreat people somehow
00:42:29.580 are always for sure by women 100 yeah because it yoga is a method of intoxication like it's a method 0.99
00:42:37.600 of getting high basically that's why girls love it yoga is the cocaine of the coward anyway uh 0.74
00:42:49.400 continue with simpson the shadow of nietzsche's idea of life as will to power falls likewise
00:42:56.120 across the significance of mutual aid one of the strongholds of those who would fain
00:43:02.060 see the world purged of conflict. In the lower orders of life, even the most casual observer
00:43:08.680 is forced to recognize how ruthless the struggle for mastery is. Everywhere through countless
00:43:13.320 eons, the weak have been pushed off the earth by the strong. But as we rise in the scale light,
00:43:19.380 victory lies more and more with those who are strong in their cunning, strong less in body
00:43:24.140 than in mind. Or as Kropotkin pointed out in an exceedingly interesting book, it may be by
00:43:31.180 mutual aid. But even mutual aid is only a means by which the members of a group, whether animal or
00:43:38.220 human, increase their strength for combat. The necessity for struggle between individuals may
00:43:43.280 thereby be reduced. The area within which strife is limited may thereby be somewhat widened,
00:43:49.740 but always to the end that the strength of the group may be increased, that it is a strength
00:43:55.560 that is used to fight enemies and if necessary to kill them mutual aid is always a means to group
00:44:02.040 mastery the issue remains a struggle for power and in the struggle the weeks to come
00:44:07.160 and this is like very obvious as soon as you notice that like societies societies or companies
00:44:15.680 the second they stop having like a confederate like the second you know the european countries
00:44:20.600 stop like being at risk of war with each other or the second a company like becomes a monopoly
00:44:25.420 all that discipline and like like strength and like character goes out the window you know
00:44:33.200 there's no like greater assemblage of virtue than like like europe between the wars like uh
00:44:41.800 like or the lead up to world war one where you just see like like read a like a like memoir
00:44:51.920 bought from like the 1900s it's like like these people are like thirsting for war and they're
00:44:59.200 just like overwhelming with this like virtue like uh this like uh the nine the early 1900s are like
00:45:06.860 almost like arthurian in their like level of um level of like yeah an insane martial virtue like
00:45:17.040 Like, if you read The King in Yellow by, not Whitaker Chambers, Robert Chalmers.
00:45:31.840 Robert Chambers, sorry.
00:45:34.920 Like, one of the stories revolves around this weirdo obsessing Napoleon, which in itself is already, like, incredibly virtuous that he's reading all these books about Napoleon.
00:45:46.260 but like he's being contrasted you know this guy that you know you might actually think of as like
00:45:51.740 kind of virtuous that he's doing all this research in his spare time he's being contrasted with his
00:45:56.500 truly virtuous cousin who's like a captain of like a unit of crassiers which are actually
00:46:02.660 armored knights that existed from like the 1770s up until like the 1920s like crassier units and
00:46:11.020 lanchers were still being trained to like ride horse and like wear armor and like carry a lance
00:46:16.540 and a gun at the same time at like he's they're both competing romantically over this uh this girl
00:46:24.880 who um you know she's a she's like the descendants of this like dutchly house but the real reason
00:46:32.560 she matters and like the reason that like the weird metaphysical stuff of the plot is happening
00:46:37.920 is that like she's actually descended from royal bloodline and like she's a princess so you have 0.97
00:46:43.140 like this nerdy napole like like extremist napoleon obsessive who's like a metaphor for 0.97
00:46:51.680 like all the like anarchists and whatnot and like proto-fascists competing with this like
00:46:57.500 literal knight in shining armor for a princess and this is what like whitaker uh robert chambers
00:47:05.160 is imagining uh new york will look like in the distant future of 1925 that this is the world of
00:47:14.420 like the 1890s through the 1900s and like you see this like outflowing of like virtue and nietzsche
00:47:20.080 himself was a cavalry uh chirper uh used and sort of a great one until he like fell and bumped his
00:47:26.940 head and that exacerbated is like a brain tour but then like he still served in the franco-prussian
00:47:34.060 war like uh as a medic yeah as a medic which yeah i was just reading he's so cute i was just
00:47:42.460 reading nietzsche today and he's talking about frederick the great and like the king of germany
00:47:49.840 and his father and um yeah he just got such a beautiful martial instinct like the way that he
00:47:55.640 talks about frederick the great and there's a sentence where he says that his father was oh
00:48:00.780 here we go his father was an enthusiast for handsome and very tall grenadiers and just like
00:48:07.380 i like that guy like there's just something about a man like a military man it's it's i want to ask
00:48:13.900 who won in that competition between those two men for the princess uh so like uh it's like a weird
00:48:25.460 love crafting tales so like uh there's all this like creepy like like esoteric stuff and like
00:48:32.700 do a side machines and like society is like like turning into this dystopia but this like
00:48:39.720 strangely beautiful dystopia as like uh these ancient gods are like coming back into the picture
00:48:45.860 oh wow this sounds amazing is it good uh so like the first like it's a series of connected short
00:48:54.080 stories and the first one is very good and some of the subsequent ones are like very very interesting
00:48:59.860 and it's like really weird to figure out like it's it's not written in a way that's like very
00:49:04.340 interpretable but all like revolves like profoundly around like romantic love and like
00:49:09.460 the resentments of like men who don't don't have it and like like in a lot of ways it like predicts
00:49:17.100 like the incel rebellion like modern extremism and stuff but like told from the perspective of
00:49:22.480 these like romantics who like actually have love and all the stories are like variants on this but
00:49:29.340 but uh yes it's a it's a like lost ghost that exists in like a play the king in yellow
00:49:40.600 is like like drives people to madness and like like as soon as you read it something about like
00:49:46.480 the romance or like the lives of these people changes in this profoundly horrifying disgusting
00:49:51.760 way um that's like as soon as someone like reads this book all suddenly like they're doomed or
00:49:58.580 someone they know is doomed or like or like actually do they kill themselves
00:50:02.540 uh the is that what the madness does it does all kinds of stuff like people read it that's such a
00:50:12.000 good idea like people will read it and then all suddenly the girl who's like madly in love with
00:50:18.780 this painter this sculptor and is going to marry him like uh something will happen and the sculptor
00:50:27.000 like like uh dies or like she falls in love with a painter friend and like the second you read this
00:50:34.820 book and it's like so twisted and like like they know something horrible has happened the second
00:50:39.560 they read it but then like they don't understand like how their dooms are offered by it but like
00:50:44.340 suddenly some part of their personality just changes ever so slightly and they're like romantic
00:50:49.660 affections and like idea of themselves changes ever so slightly and that precipitates like this
00:50:56.900 this downfall it's like lovecraftian horror but the like lovecraftian horror is like
00:51:01.740 your own emotions it's like very amazing amazing it's very like hate to re
00:51:09.620 charade and like it takes a while to wrap your head around it and like a lot of the later stories
00:51:17.680 like don't as tatch as well as like the other ones and like like um like the root mythology
00:51:26.300 of it is like like this weird arthurian mythology but it's not arthurian mythology it's velocity
00:51:32.760 of dis which is like this weird like arthurian like branch of mythology like very much like
00:51:40.060 like if you picture arthur it's like that but it's like this completely lost realm in like
00:51:45.820 britney that like only exists in like obscure french uh not even french breton uh it only
00:51:53.680 exists in breton um like like celtic mythology so it's like arthurian but it's not arthurian
00:52:00.180 and it relates to all these characters.
00:52:01.440 I don't know if they're, like, good or evil,
00:52:04.660 or, like, why this was swallowed by the sea.
00:52:11.040 Lovecraft commentated on it, and it's, like,
00:52:14.120 it has a profound influence,
00:52:15.560 but, like, not many people, like,
00:52:18.280 can actually commentate on its themes.
00:52:20.820 Because it's, like, very...
00:52:21.620 I want to write a book that, like, curses people
00:52:24.280 when they read it.
00:52:25.520 That is such an excellent idea.
00:52:28.940 Oh, that, that, that...
00:52:30.180 is what books do you know don't they you know like you read marks and also your life is dedicated to 0.60
00:52:38.060 like this jewish insight it's true books are like demons they possess you that's amazing 0.59
00:52:44.320 i'm writing a novel right now and i hope that it brings so many people to ruin that would be 0.81
00:52:50.600 wonderful amazing amazing these are my dreams my hopes and dreams in life it's like it's a very
00:52:58.680 feminine wish you know because i think i have the bloodlust but i don't know how to i'm not a warrior
00:53:04.800 i'm not gonna go like actually have hand-to-hand combat with people it's not ladylike do you know
00:53:11.000 what i mean well this is but i still this is the dream to have the bloodlust to become like
00:53:16.200 morgana lafayne to be like yeah like a witch casting like this is what i wish i really wish
00:53:22.120 and i pray i need to be more fervent in my prayers that i could go and like when i see people
00:53:28.220 behaving badly in public and like you know which kind of people i'm talking about right nudge nudge 0.97
00:53:33.200 that i could just wish that they would die like curse them and then they would fall dead later 0.99
00:53:39.140 like choke on a chicken bone or i don't know get hit by a bus or something and it could not be 0.99
00:53:43.740 turned back to me right like it would not be because nobody believes in witchcraft saw that uh
00:53:49.980 that video online of like uh the basketball players the female basketball players 0.99
00:53:55.560 no i've not been online in a long time uh this one black player like checked this one female
00:54:02.580 player that like this instantly became a meme because like the the ref like would not uh call 0.61
00:54:09.200 foul so the female character just kept pointing at the black at the black player who like checked 0.99
00:54:15.120 like just kept kept pointing and like the the black female player like starts like spazzing 0.99
00:54:23.280 and trying to like swat her hand away and becomes like an altercation on the court and she's just 1.00
00:54:27.940 like walked around the edge like holding her hand up pointing and like uh and like uh the black 0.50
00:54:35.360 female player like you know because you could just like ignore this you could just be like 0.86
00:54:40.180 whatever yeah you're spazzing out of there whatever but like uh this player who's like 0.99
00:54:46.920 obviously like like uh the pointing like white girl was like extraordinarily beautiful and like 0.94
00:54:54.460 obviously like had the social dominance so her just pointing like that like you can see this like 1.00
00:55:01.060 this uh black girl sort of like spazzing out like like as if spells were being cast at her 1.00
00:55:07.060 but they are it's like medea yeah and this uh this uh now has become like a meme that's
00:55:16.900 like spread and been seen by like hundreds of millions of people so like in a way it was a
00:55:21.760 spell it is yeah it's like the thing about witchcraft is it works if you believe it
00:55:27.120 well you don't even have to believe it just someone has to believe it somebody yeah somebody
00:55:34.020 has to believe it you know like people are always telling me i just need to believe in myself more
00:55:38.740 and i think i've finally found like like nietzsche says with when you discover your why
00:55:46.080 you can handle any like how or something like that like when you get your goal like your
00:55:52.200 your end in mind and you're fixated on like where you're going then you can figure anything else
00:55:58.560 out along the way like you can make it happen if you really know what you're aiming for
00:56:03.540 this is why it's so important to hang out at like deserted country crossroads at midnight
00:56:09.660 even if the devil doesn't show up you aren't sure that he didn't show up and grant your wish so like
00:56:15.080 yeah or like you you're stuck believing in yourself because destiny might have found you
00:56:21.260 yeah and like what do you have to lose if you if you like just believe in yourself
00:56:29.380 what's the worst that can happen you're wrong and you die that's not that bad
00:56:33.080 i i mean macbeth believed himself it can start a it's it can start a whole series of things
00:56:39.900 you know yeah it's our believing in like the weird women who tell you weird things about like
00:56:46.380 your divine destiny you know weird things happen i am such a witch that's what i want to do with
00:56:53.280 my life too is just like tell certain people like you're so powerful you're gonna be the king of
00:56:59.720 europe like you're gonna rule the world and what if they start believing it and then doing crazy
00:57:05.000 things and life becomes so much more interesting i would feel really good about myself and my
00:57:11.460 sojourn here on earth if i made people do crazy things because i said like weird prophecies to
00:57:18.100 them in this very confident way or just pointed at them very emphatically for a long time
00:57:23.020 i i disavow this is no relation whatsoever to the anarchonomic on progress i'm totally not
00:57:31.880 doing that in the written form but uh continuing with uh galey yes the shadow of nietzsche's
00:57:41.440 idea of life as will to power falls likewise across significant this oh sorry uh
00:57:50.100 already read that very rough uh starting again finally nietzsche saw will to power determining
00:57:57.000 the value of every people. Throughout all history, we've witnessed the masterful conquering
00:58:02.540 a given territory, setting up as hallowed standards of conduct, quote, given by the gods.
00:58:10.440 Those whose value, unquote, those values that through long experience they have come to believe
00:58:19.160 essential, not only to their existence, but to their greatness. They hallowed the means by which
00:58:26.160 they have hewed out of the place for themselves in the face of their environment and their enemies.
00:58:33.840 That's an amazing sentence.
00:58:35.340 I just have to write that.
00:58:38.360 Continuing.
00:58:39.480 Nietzsche felt that the need for life behind a people's will to power
00:58:44.000 were a more determining force than any concern for abstract truth.
00:58:49.800 Quote,
00:58:50.140 What after all are man's truths?
00:58:53.220 There is his irrefutable errors.
00:58:56.160 unquote and well truth is a kind of air by which a particular species has been able to survive
00:59:03.060 the value for life is ultimately decisive unquote uh and that again is like kind of the ultimate
00:59:10.320 test of truth you know when you when you like look at a glass well you glass of water and say
00:59:16.600 the glass of water exists well like actually if you look at the atomic level it's like
00:59:20.720 an intimate infinitely divisible like series of atoms that like are actually like like permeated
00:59:28.640 with like like oxygen in like odd ways and like uh like you know the water is continuous with the
00:59:38.140 moisture in the air blah blah blah but like it's it's truth because like actually is like useful
00:59:44.520 to perpetuating like your survival whereas like other beliefs that aren't useful to perpetuating
00:59:50.980 your survival like uh like uh you know that bleach will cure your stomach ache like uh
00:59:59.000 like those are not true because they aren't good for your survival you know you know what is the
01:00:06.680 difference between Napoleon and the man who says in the madman who says he's Napoleon well Napoleon
01:00:13.260 and actually advances of life by insisting he's Napoleon
01:00:16.760 and insisting upon him being the emperor,
01:00:20.320 whereas the madman wind up in an asylum, you know?
01:00:26.140 Yeah, because there are truths,
01:00:29.720 I don't know if you would call it a truth,
01:00:32.020 but some ideas perhaps make some people great
01:00:37.400 and the same idea can destroy other people.
01:00:40.060 so it's like you can't speak about the truth the value of a truth to everybody's life and i think
01:00:48.700 when nietzsche says life in in that quoted section he's talking about like capital l life which i
01:00:55.040 think he sees more as this like ascendancy of life this like expansion and um deepening and
01:01:03.620 like greatening of life like making life larger and higher and more beautiful which notably
01:01:12.900 is very distinct from relativism because absolutely the relativist says oh they're
01:01:19.800 all equally valuable it's like no they're they're not all equally valuable they're profoundly
01:01:24.640 they're a profoundly different value absolutely everything can be ranked on a hierarchy
01:01:32.100 every truth every action every person like and yeah there's a lot of different ways to see
01:01:37.800 the same thing but not all of those ways are equal in value and of course that question of
01:01:45.240 value is determined by like well what are you aiming at value to what like value to whom
01:01:51.240 and so even your goals and objectives and aims can be evaluated you know like
01:01:58.660 what is what is the best way like what is the highest value that we can direct mankind towards
01:02:07.680 i um continuing but will to power interests us most as we detected at work in the conduct of
01:02:17.600 individuals and groups in our own world today here nietzsche saw it operating without fail and
01:02:22.920 without exception, continuously, as every individual, in every individual, in every
01:02:29.340 individual, in every group. What a man undertakes to master, and on what plane he undertakes to
01:02:35.600 master, may vary widely. But to Nietzsche's way of thinking, there were no exceptions.
01:02:41.240 The object of your will to power may be a man, or a woman, or a group of men, or a whole nation of
01:02:46.400 men. It may be a craft or technique. You may try to gain a following by intimidating man, by
01:02:52.220 convincing their minds or by winning their hearts what you master may be yourself and art or the
01:02:57.620 meaning of existence but Nietzsche believed that while you lived at all you must manifest will to
01:03:03.080 power of some kind on some plane over something a mother laying down her life for a child or Jesus
01:03:08.600 going to the cross for mankind are as much examples of it as anyone else if you deny that will to
01:03:14.740 power holds for you it means only that through another philosophy you have found your way to
01:03:21.000 power. For philosophy, too, is but an instrument in the hands of the will to power, a means by
01:03:27.020 which a man undertakes, consciously or unconsciously, to increase his power over others, or to make
01:03:32.700 himself feel more secure in the universe. Jesus said, quote, he who humbleth himself shall be
01:03:39.240 exalted, unquote. Benetia replied mischievously, quote, he that humbleth himself wants to be
01:03:48.240 exalted. That is why he humbled himself. It is easy to see that among people who value humility,
01:03:58.000 a reputation for humility will be a means for climbing above others. Once more, let me repeat,
01:04:04.820 according to Nietzsche, as long as any man lives, he manifests world's power and cannot do otherwise.
01:04:10.300 and this is uh one of the the like things about uh if you read the bible jesus is always always
01:04:19.300 going on about uh how he wants glory for himself and how he wants uh his name to be be known and
01:04:27.320 like uh they they'll actually repeat say in the bible like there are multiple passages they're
01:04:33.240 like oh jesus performed this miracle and he made everyone swear themselves to secrecy that they
01:04:38.440 wouldn't tell anyone about it but they immediately told everyone about it and therefore fred and
01:04:45.360 it's like like it very obviously that like him like gloating that him's making them swear
01:04:53.140 themselves to secrecy spread the spread the miracle more than if they had not been sworn to secrecy
01:05:02.100 And that somehow, like, this spreading of the message, like, supersedes the fact that they immediately and directly disobeyed God.
01:05:13.500 Like, I would have thought, especially, like, reading the first, you know, the Old Testament, that, you know, when God tells you to do something, you're supposed to, like, do it.
01:05:24.520 And if you disobey, there are consequences.
01:05:27.440 Whereas, like, they're writing, oh, yeah, we told them this.
01:05:31.260 But because we told them that, they did the exact opposite.
01:05:33.660 We reversed psychology them, bro.
01:05:37.300 Yeah, I get that if I talk to Jesus, I get the sense.
01:05:40.940 Because I think he's like an entity or an archon or a Gregor or whatever you want to say.
01:05:47.500 You can like interact with him.
01:05:49.400 And when I talk to him, I get the sense he's like a pickup artist.
01:05:51.960 Like that's the vibe I get off of Jesus.
01:05:55.420 Ah, the original mystery method.
01:05:58.280 Mm-hmm.
01:05:58.640 but uh once more let me repeat according to nature so man is so long as any man lives
01:06:07.060 he manifests will to power and cannot do otherwise but there was one kind of people who whose will
01:06:13.520 to power came to be a particular interest to nature as he looked abroad over earth he suddenly
01:06:18.720 smelled a great smell and upon abetiation discovered that arose from the morality of the
01:06:24.040 decadent. Their kind of morality proved to be characteristic of the will to power of life in a
01:06:31.080 state of decay. The decadent in Nietzsche's thought are the weak and sickly, those who are badly put
01:06:37.160 together, a hodgepodge of conflicting instincts. They are the botched and ill-favor, the exhausted
01:06:43.220 and beaten. In inferior people of every sort, the will to power is easily frustrated. They're not
01:06:49.740 able to take their full natural shape consequently in them the world power seeks its end through
01:06:55.740 devious underground ways by burrowing or by stealing up back stairs and climbing in back
01:07:01.300 windows like all people they create that kind of morality that will serve their needs in this case 0.57
01:07:07.520 the needs of the weak sickly and botched having no strength in themselves as individuals they turn
01:07:13.580 upside down all sound valuation of life and pronounce the virtue of superior men evil 0.80
01:07:19.080 and turn their own weakness into virtues on the one hand out of envy and fear and hatred
01:07:26.560 they disparage and condemn those qualities of their masters that they do not possess
01:07:31.240 and because of the limits set by heredity cannot acquire they deprecate beauty health good birth
01:07:38.500 and great strength, and they deprecate self-reliance, independence, boldness, iron will, and prodigality.
01:07:46.220 All the lion and man that might make him formidable, all that might lift him above them
01:07:52.840 like a towering mountain peak, sources of storms, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions,
01:07:58.320 they cry down and call evil. They would fain undermine his belief in and reverence towards
01:08:04.240 himself and thus disintegrate the forming core within him which if not nipped in time might
01:08:10.640 shape him into a powerful person above above their understanding and beyond their control
01:08:17.820 the voice of god is made to speak always in behalf of the neighbor the other man the mass
01:08:26.100 they would thus achieve a collective strength great enough to overwhelm all superior men
01:08:32.200 and either prevent their appearance or drag them down to their own level.
01:08:36.500 Thus, the herd values come to the fore.
01:08:39.500 Brotherly love, for example.
01:08:42.320 The ideal now is unselfishness.
01:08:46.100 One must think first of others, regardless of what happens to oneself,
01:08:49.680 even to one's deepest self.
01:08:52.060 The cry is, quote,
01:08:53.700 do everything for the benefit of others.
01:08:56.140 To be true to oneself is evil.
01:08:58.680 It might give somebody pain.
01:09:00.440 Besides, it shows pride, a setting up of one's own will and defiance of God, to find life, to please God, one must bend one's neck down, deny oneself, forgive all injuries, love everybody, and show it by always doing good and helping others.
01:09:21.020 unquote why to what end that thus they may become even ever easier more pleasant more secure for
01:09:29.020 the kind of people preach this doctrine that is the weak the sickly and the mediocre in short
01:09:36.220 for the ordinary man and the mass and i i want to just do an aside here if you ever read uh
01:09:44.900 ian m bank's culture trilogy uh he wrote an entire series that's basically about um
01:09:52.300 the end state of this uh people who have this morality that the highest thing is like to remove
01:10:00.160 others from pain and help others uh what's the end say of that well they actually do create
01:10:06.740 something approximating a utopia or like uh you know you can live forever and like let's face it
01:10:14.880 fairing civilization and like you modify your genetics to like have all these different organs
01:10:20.320 that do all kinds of stuff and most people use it to like create organs that increase their
01:10:25.220 pleasure during sex and and like or like have drug releasers and like you know a few who are
01:10:32.920 like obsessed with like games and whatnot will get like organs that increase like their strategic
01:10:37.600 thinking thing and stuff they only use it for like playing games and whatnot and like the only
01:10:44.580 thing that like drives meaning in the society the only thing that like uh the main characters of the
01:10:49.540 society belong to like their um their special forces their intelligence agency uh special
01:10:57.500 circumstances that like uh are exceptional people who for whatever reason the ais who run their
01:11:03.820 society like need for like certain judgments certain other stuff and uh all these people 0.95
01:11:09.600 who are like in like this meaningless world really uh get all their meaning of going out
01:11:16.460 into the universe finding civilizations that are like still violent and cruel and like have the
01:11:22.060 struggle for existence and then making sure the good guys win i.e conquering in the simulator
01:11:30.860 letting them you know the same way that like the u.s it's like no we aren't we aren't conquering the
01:11:37.120 world we're just making it secure for democracy you know the same way the U.S. does that they
01:11:42.340 make sure that like the good guys win and that like these people are free to join uh it's called
01:11:47.700 the culture because they don't have officially have a hierarchy they make it so that uh you know
01:11:54.640 the all these other species can freely join uh their post-scarcity world and of course as soon
01:12:02.880 you join the first thing you lose is your like ability to like fight back or defy or like be an
01:12:09.160 organized independent group and that's like what that's so real that's so real yeah it's an amazing
01:12:16.640 series but uh wow like uh the thing that um enum banks depicts consistently over and over again
01:12:25.040 is that uh the people who uh fight for the culture of these people in special circumstance
01:12:30.180 basically every character in the culture eventually develops on we and commits suicide
01:12:35.920 and like hey they normalize it like they're like oh yeah people get euthanized you know
01:12:41.220 some people live 10 000 years some people live 500 you know there's one guy out there who lived
01:12:47.040 like 100 000 years and he's still going look at him but uh but uh you know eventually everyone
01:12:53.620 like gets a little on we that they just want to die and you just gotta let them but uh like you
01:12:59.280 see it from the inner perspective of these like characters in like uh in special circumstance who
01:13:05.640 are going on like waging war with like these monster societies that still have like slavery
01:13:11.980 and like cruelty and like you know use their ai and like uh immortality technology to like
01:13:18.260 torture their enemies forever and stuff um uh they go and wage war out of like great moral
01:13:25.660 appropriant for these societies but all of them like wind up falling in love with the societies
01:13:32.660 that they fight because like meaning stokes in them like the struggle for existence like last
01:13:37.620 of the mohicans yeah avatar yeah exactly and like uh and like basically they realize that 0.97
01:13:47.080 their entire life's work like too late was uh destroying the uh destroying the societies that 0.97
01:13:56.560 were actually capable of giving them meaning and uh and like there's 10 books in the series and
01:14:03.420 all of them are different all of them are like some that were like very tight little stories
01:14:08.020 some of them are these vast expansive philosophical tracks uh and i i strongly recommend it but it
01:14:13.620 exactly gets to this uh uh that uh to find life to please god one must bend one's neck defy oneself
01:14:24.180 forgive all injuries love everyone show by always doing good and helping others why to what end
01:14:29.900 and the obvious and like as soon as you think about it becomes really obvious that if like
01:14:34.580 the goal of life is helping others and like that's the meaning of life and that like you know
01:14:41.220 this is the point of other people's lives who you're helping yeah shouldn't they be helping me
01:14:46.120 yeah is that like basically like life can only have meaning as long as there's like 0.92
01:14:54.640 dumb wretched miserable person out there you can help you see you've actually helped him and turned
01:15:00.540 him into like a confident person who can help others all suddenly all of you have no meaning 1.00
01:15:05.440 in your life and uh that's what yeah so it's like a self-perpetuating like disease machine
01:15:14.520 it needs people to be sick and weak and so that's why it's built into the morality itself
01:15:20.740 like a poison like the morality itself is like a like a toxin that makes people weak and sick
01:15:29.020 Because if you're always, if your outlay is always bigger than your income, in any regard, whatever, including your life energy, like you're going to get sick. And that's the whole philosophy of Christianity or woke liberal progressivism or whatever, is that you should always be giving more than you get.
01:15:50.480 and that is a recipe for enervation and sickness and like it's it's suicide they're they're asking
01:16:00.460 you to commit suicide basically so that like you and everyone else can always just be sick 0.66
01:16:06.740 yes uh continuing Nietzsche's supreme example of decadence was Christianity it is historic fact 1.00
01:16:17.840 that the Christian church took root in the scum and ghetto of the decaying Roman Empire. 0.99
01:16:23.040 We've already noted that the Apostle Paul himself once boasts that amongst the Christians 0.98
01:16:27.560 there were none of great wisdom or of high social standing or of good birth.
01:16:32.240 1 Corinthians 126.
01:16:35.520 T.G. Young speaks of the, quote,
01:16:39.200 explosive spread of Christian which, so to speak, sprang out of the sewers of Rome, unquote.
01:16:45.000 and Gibbon's great history presents much the same picture.
01:16:49.200 Houston Stewart Chamberlain said that, quote,
01:16:52.020 all the foundations of the structure of historical Christianity 0.99
01:16:55.100 were laid and built up by this mongrel population, unquote. 0.99
01:17:00.060 Merge Joukowsky in his Death of the Gods 1.00
01:17:03.940 makes one feel that the early Christians were veritable vermin 1.00
01:17:07.660 and such people cannot look out upon the wholesome thing of life 1.00
01:17:12.040 except their jaundiced eyes.
01:17:14.720 Instinctively, they want to bring all beautiful things down to their own level.
01:17:19.720 Nietzsche condemned Christianity.
01:17:21.480 He linked it with alcoholism as one of the, quote, the one of, quote, the two great European narcotics, unquote.
01:17:30.640 He condemned Christianity for exactly the same reason that Jesus condemned the Pharisees as an enemy of life.
01:17:37.120 he condemned it he condemned it because it diverted attention from and poisoned belief in 0.87
01:17:45.520 wrong and beautiful life here and now on the earth but above all he condemned it as a gospel
01:17:51.060 by which the weak shall inherit the earth the weak the sickly the mediocre is confirmation of
01:17:59.160 his insight no matter where in the western world one today turns one's gaze one finds the earth 0.94
01:18:04.400 possessed by the mob and in the hands of people of such people no nation no culture no civilization
01:18:11.980 can long hold together in the years since i first wrote these words i have come gradually to believe 0.99
01:18:18.620 that christianity it unfits any people for survival the malady of which the whole white
01:18:27.340 man's world is dying is christianity with nietzsche it has been said and here dear readers you might
01:18:35.760 see why i wanted to read read simpson to you uh because this is the 1970s like this is
01:18:43.820 like very early to be relating this like to the american case and he was a very early man to do
01:18:53.720 this. Continuing, quote, with Nietzsche, it has been said, the conscience of Europe awoke. Some
01:19:03.460 people at least awoke to what has been happening. And wherever men await to a realization of how
01:19:10.380 Christianity has poisoned our whole lives, there will be a need to study the effort that Nietzsche 0.99
01:19:16.660 made to point out the way by which mankind, or at least certainly our kind, might give back onto 0.99
01:19:22.400 the path of ever more exalted life. For accomplishing all this, nothing could be more
01:19:27.140 important than the regimen and the new morality that Nietzsche prescribed for those strong,
01:19:32.020 well-constituted, and loving men who know not how to live at all except as downgoers.
01:19:38.280 Would fain lay down their lives if only thereby they may have built the path by which they may
01:19:43.420 ascend to Superman? First, therefore, let me submit a few words about the social provision
01:19:49.020 for such men. Under ideal conditions, there would be throughout every level of the social order
01:19:54.360 a constant alertness for any sign of emergent superiority, and superiority would at once be
01:20:00.320 exempted from some of the ordinary duties and be given the privilege of every bit of educational
01:20:05.760 opportunity by which it showed itself capable of benefiting. The cream of the youth would be given
01:20:10.960 the cream of the teachers. The youthful lead of the whole land gathered into small groups should
01:20:15.880 sit for years at the feet of the greatest minds and souls that the land afforded. Here they would
01:20:21.760 be initiated into the wisdom of life and under severe discipline specifically trained for the
01:20:26.060 responsibilities that they would eventually assume. The morality by which these young men
01:20:31.260 would be shaped would be vastly different from that prescribed for the rank of file
01:20:34.900 or even for the rulers. Obviously it would be for the very few. Incidentally, as I have read the
01:20:41.760 words that Nietzsche would address to them, I've been reminded at some points of Jesus's
01:20:46.240 Sermon on the Mount, but that such resemblance may be more easily noted, though above all,
01:20:52.060 in the interest of general understanding, I must face that what I want to say with a few more
01:20:56.940 remarks about egoism. Nietzsche believed that altruism in any strict sense was impossible,
01:21:05.320 and called it the most mendacious form of egoism. He declared flatly that the individual does not
01:21:11.740 study the interests of the species or a prosperity at the cost of his own advantage all this is only
01:21:17.960 apparent it is to be sure possible to choose the plane on which you undertake to seek increase in
01:21:23.320 your own life as jesus did when he set his face to go to jerusalem but to strip every motive of
01:21:29.680 all concern for what on one plane or another will benefit oneself is an utter impossibility
01:21:35.580 as to remain alive without breathing.
01:21:39.340 If we lost the sense of what, in one way or another,
01:21:41.560 would mean increase of life in ourselves,
01:21:43.800 we would not know our food from our poison.
01:21:46.680 Here is the very core of the instinct of life.
01:21:49.300 He who loses that has become decadent indeed.
01:21:53.960 Nietzsche went further and declared,
01:21:55.960 The ego, wholesome and holy, and selfishness blessed.
01:21:59.860 But in an effort to prevent misunderstanding, he added,
01:22:02.600 that your very self be in your action as the mother is in the child let that be your formula
01:22:09.280 of virtue and while he thus sanctioned egoism yet he was very careful not to include any and every
01:22:16.060 ego another selfishness is there he said an all too poor and hungry kind which would always steal
01:22:23.380 the selfishness of the sick the sickly selfishness he called that a larcenous crave a larcenous craving
01:22:32.200 and declared a horror to us is the degenerating sense which says all for myself it is easy to
01:22:41.500 see why nietzsche had thus to speak out in defense of what for lack of a better word he called
01:22:46.480 egoism life is in individual men and women or it is or it isn't anywhere and yet on every side the
01:22:55.000 actual life in men all that could give the life any meaning was being beguiled or beaten out of
01:23:00.600 them in the name of some virtue or god that was ultimately nothing but an abstraction
01:23:04.780 the life of the whole world could be exalted only as the life of in the individual composing it was
01:23:11.640 enriched and exalted at all costs therefore men must be given new courage in the face of all
01:23:17.480 social preference to reverence and to trust and to obey their own impulses it is to be noted however
01:23:25.500 and pondered well that Nietzsche was not less discriminating than Jesus
01:23:29.600 in regards to the impulse that he undertook to fall
01:23:32.620 and that told other men to fall.
01:23:36.200 What is apt to confuse us is that he abandoned the metaphysical
01:23:40.320 as a cobweb tissue of lies and cowardice
01:23:43.380 and undertook to confine himself to what he was sure of,
01:23:46.560 neither by tradition nor by speculation but by experience.
01:23:50.560 And what Jesus called God, when looked at from the standpoint of psychology, is exactly
01:23:56.660 what Nietzsche called self.
01:23:59.460 For Nietzsche, both what Jesus called God and what was life to love and obey, and what
01:24:05.560 Jesus called self was a swalless, which he urged men to deny, were impulses of one's
01:24:11.220 own being.
01:24:12.840 That is to say, you're not to be identified with the smallness and weakness within you,
01:24:17.260 and your life was not to be found by denying all this in the name of some other than yourself
01:24:22.540 however divine it may be it was your own nature at its best that was divine and was was to be
01:24:30.340 sacrificed with not yourself but only the side of yourself that stood in the way of your truest
01:24:35.480 and highest in any realistic sense therefore there was no sacrifice you only gave up your
01:24:41.580 lesser desire to get what you wanted most and what you wanted most that most inescapable
01:24:46.600 unalterable and unappeasable wanting within you, the wanting which satisfied was life and
01:24:51.940 unsatisfied was at best a living death, that very core of you was what Jesus called God.
01:24:58.760 After this preface, I will now make bold to present Nietzsche's gospel for those higher men,
01:25:04.800 those few most loving men who would fain live as bridges to Superman.
01:25:09.900 let me repeat that after this preface i'll now make bold to present nietzsche's gospel for those
01:25:20.900 higher men those few loving men who would feign to live as bridges to superman one dare
01:25:29.040 this is an assemblage of quotations dare only to believe in thyself in thyself and in thine
01:25:36.000 Inward parts, he who doth not believe in himself always live.
01:25:42.960 And, quote, what saith thy conscious, thou shalt become what thou art, unquote.
01:25:47.940 But over and over again, Nietzsche stressed the difficulty of, quote, finding oneself, unquote.
01:25:53.800 Can I interject briefly about the ego thing?
01:26:00.160 I think the section that he quoted is from The Twilight of the Idols.
01:26:05.120 And in there, Nisha is careful. I don't know if he's careful, but he says that the value of somebody's ego depends on that person. It's like ego in itself is not valuable or unvaluable. It's the person, like the goodness and the health of the person that determines the value of, you know, what they do, their actions and their ego.
01:26:27.260 and so ego just like people can be well it can be well turned out and wholesome and beautiful
01:26:34.420 or it can be sickly ugly and diseased and it can be all kinds of you know different notches on the
01:26:41.460 gradation of rank between those two extremes and um there's another place in beyond good and evil
01:26:49.120 where Nietzsche refers to he often uses the words soul and the words ego interchangeably because
01:26:56.100 they're traditionally like soul is the religious traditional word for that like core of the person
01:27:04.480 the like center of the being and then you know in his age psychology was starting to become a thing
01:27:10.940 and ego became the like um mundane word the like non-sacred word to describe that same core or that
01:27:18.560 center of the being but in beyond good and evil he talks about the idea that the soul is multiple
01:27:25.280 and that you actually have this like commonwealth of souls inside of yourself so you can see your
01:27:30.520 own body as like a political institution basically that has a lot of different
01:27:35.180 like beings inside of it and they they your souls also can be ranked
01:27:41.380 like the variable different drives and impulses and goals inside of yourself can be ranked and
01:27:50.800 And he talks in also Beyond Good and Evil about like the recent mixture of the classes and therefore the races in Europe and how that was creating these like hybrid people who were still predominantly white.
01:28:07.440 but it's like you know mixing celts and germans germans and slobs like those sort of sub ethnicities 0.68
01:28:14.200 of the white race which were traditionally distinguished by class and like kept apart
01:28:21.480 from breeding with one another by class divisions like suddenly with the democratizing of europe
01:28:27.800 all of those class divisions are eradicated and people start breeding across class divisions which
01:28:33.280 means they're breeding across ethnic divisions as well and their internal souls are like becoming a
01:28:40.640 melting pot if you will like it's all these different you know in the sense that that word
01:28:45.280 was meant maybe in the 1800s in America like when it was still mostly European people immigrating
01:28:51.920 but it was all these different types of European people and like the the you have to like have a
01:29:00.000 well-ordered like self to have a well-ordered body like you have to get all of those little
01:29:06.280 souls in their proper position like there you do have some souls in you especially if you're
01:29:11.720 of mixed descent like even modern Europeans are mixed in their heritage in that sense 1.00
01:29:17.180 and some of your souls are better than other of your souls and like the work of individuation
01:29:23.480 as Jung would say, I think in this model would be to recognize like which of your souls are the
01:29:31.700 slave souls and not let them take charge of the political institution that is your body,
01:29:39.400 the commonwealth that is your body. And like figuring out which souls in you are the most
01:29:44.060 noble souls and letting those be like the king or the aristocratic class of your commonwealth
01:29:49.800 and making your decisions from the voice of those souls and not from the voice of your slave souls 0.55
01:29:56.860 and then there's also the work of ego death as the buddhists talk about it and like new age people
01:30:03.840 use that term but i think it's really helpful because like you're also going to have souls
01:30:07.820 inside of you that are criminals and need to be executed like there are parts of you that you have
01:30:13.340 to kill because they're disturbing the peace or they are, you know, creating decadence in the 1.00
01:30:20.440 social order or they're like stealing, robbing, raping, whatever. They're doing things that are 0.98
01:30:27.080 inappropriate and gumming up the works of your commonwealth. And so there are like parts of
01:30:32.540 yourself that you actually do have to crucify because you might have criminal elements within
01:30:39.520 yourself but like you have to be able to be discriminating like it's not it's not your ego
01:30:45.680 that is bad it's different types of ego that are bad and especially if they're operating outside
01:30:52.760 of their place like if your soul your slave parts of your soul are trying to be the king
01:30:58.460 well that's not good and they need to be either put back into their place and if they won't go 0.51
01:31:03.420 back into their place then they need to be executed so you still get to do ego death work
01:31:08.940 But like you have to be able to differentiate between which parts of your ego deserve to live and die, just like any functioning society has to differentiate between which people may continue to enjoy the benefits of that society and which people are creating more problems than they are offering, you know, benefits to the society and need to just be excreted.
01:31:31.420 yes the uh the parts of your soul that are called to be there are called via your ego to be like
01:31:42.160 alexander or a great princess uh are in constant tension with the parts of your ego they're called
01:31:50.560 to to eat five more slices of cake and become the hungriest of hippos
01:31:55.640 Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
01:32:25.640 that would and could shape a man's entire life.
01:32:28.620 Put it under orders, give it a destiny, and be to it a god.
01:32:33.980 The way unto thyself, he pronounced, the way of thine affliction,
01:32:38.560 inevitable suffering and danger, even the danger of self-destruction,
01:32:44.560 lurked along the path of the man who set out on this quest.
01:32:50.160 It would be easy for him to miss the path, and missing it,
01:32:53.900 he might never find his way to the light, but instead spend all his days groping hopelessly
01:32:59.480 through the black depths of a labrant. Or, to put the matter differently, he would for a while,
01:33:05.140 and maybe for a long while, have to bear a constant and better struggle with all their
01:33:09.900 refractory elements within himself, which refused to take orders from any god, which in fact would
01:33:15.940 feign set up as gods themselves and would at the least throw themselves across the path of
01:33:21.020 obedience to any other worse yet he would have to be equal to giving pain to those nearest to them
01:33:27.040 to him who cannot understand or would disapp or who disapproved this might become necessary for
01:33:33.980 him to cut off the hands of those dear ones who were determined to hold him back sooner or later
01:33:39.480 he would have to throw away one by one every crutch of dependence upon tradition authority
01:33:44.600 and the experience of other men he must be prepared at the final price of his integrity
01:33:49.940 to endure the icy breath of an inner aloneness like that of the polar waste or of the star
01:33:56.620 projected into desert space needless to say therefore it was something vastly different
01:34:03.460 from the doshan implied in the slogan be thyself so airily held up by many today
01:34:08.760 who really want only to throw off irksome restraints.
01:34:13.860 The common lusting act of freedom repelled Nietzsche.
01:34:17.960 Before a man set out to find and follow the way unto himself,
01:34:21.420 he demanded evidence that he had the strength for it
01:34:23.920 and the inner authority necessity.
01:34:27.060 Free dost thou call thyself.
01:34:29.660 Thy ruling thought would I hear of,
01:34:33.840 and not that thou hast escaped from a yoke.
01:34:36.800 Art thou one entitled to escape from the yoke?
01:34:40.380 Many a one hath cast away his final worth when he hath cast away his servitude.
01:34:45.360 Free from what?
01:34:46.740 What does matter to Zarathustra?
01:34:50.140 Clearly, however, shall thou an eye show unto me.
01:34:53.500 Free forward.
01:34:55.560 Canst thou give unto thyself thy bad and thy good, and set up thy will as a law over thee?
01:35:01.600 Canst thou be judge for thyself and avenger of thy laws?
01:35:05.120 canst thou bear with and master all that may come unto thee on the on thy path
01:35:11.200 words like these made it completely obvious that nietzsche's doctrine was attended
01:35:16.820 was intended for very few and he did his utmost to warn away all those who were not ready for it
01:35:22.880 as if it were fire by which they might get burned or dynamite by which they might do damage to
01:35:29.440 others this is one of the great tensions between you might feel to tell this dear dear air just
01:35:37.740 from reading my other pieces this is one of the great tensions between like me and nature and uh
01:35:42.460 and uh simpson uh to my mind i i really don't care if like the unworthy play with dynamite
01:35:50.060 you know they might surprise us or uh they they might blow themselves yeah i wouldn't like i
01:35:56.340 wouldn't agree with simpson that nietzsche is trying to warn people off i think there are some
01:36:01.100 places in which he like laments the fact that there are no eyes to see or ears to hear him
01:36:08.520 amongst his contemporaries and i think he like like makes a point of setting himself aside as
01:36:15.860 one who is basically beyond the grasp of everybody that he's encountered in his life
01:36:21.820 but like i can think of a place in his notebooks for example where he speaks about this idea of
01:36:29.120 like giving people ideas um or doctrines or morals if you will that would be you know nectar to some
01:36:38.600 and poison to others and that like let the people who it poisons die of the poison he doesn't care
01:36:44.600 Like, he's going to put out what he sees as, like, his vision and his valuable contribution to the process of evaluating man and morals and institutions and et cetera.
01:36:56.840 And, like, and if those ideas kill some people, like, oh, well, you know, even Simpson quoted it earlier in this book.
01:37:03.940 Like, the botched shall perish and we can help them.
01:37:06.960 Like, let's just go ahead and push over what's already falling.
01:37:10.620 So I don't know. I don't agree necessarily that he was trying to like warn anybody off or protect anyone. It was more like almost scorn in a sense that like so few people were even able to approach him and that the people who did approach him just misunderstood him so completely that it was laughable.
01:37:30.980 well it's like the uh it's like the um what do they call it the nihilistic penguin or the
01:37:38.700 wandering penguin uh that uh verter herzog was fascinated by it's like yeah it's probably gonna
01:37:45.700 die on the mountain but it might not it might it might discover new and wonderful wonderful things
01:37:51.440 you know you have one life to live it's worth the attempt yeah yeah but uh i i'm very cavalier
01:37:58.080 with the lives of others as you as readers of my my uh recent piece let me let me qualify that
01:38:07.860 though I'm very cavalier with the lives of most most people there are some people's lives about
01:38:14.200 who about which I care very very much but I certainly am not concerned about the all too
01:38:21.080 many the mob the mass especially people I don't know like so so odd to me I had an encounter with
01:38:27.400 somebody I was having like a real life conversation with like an actual I met a white man who's like 0.72
01:38:34.120 stunningly handsome and white and talented and skillful and libtarded and I'm so perplexed by 0.83
01:38:43.500 this combination of qualities and a person that I um had a conversation with him because I was 0.99
01:38:49.620 curious you know and I just like it literally makes my skin crawl to hear somebody talk about
01:38:56.980 how much love they have for people they've never fucking met in their life it's like that is it's
01:39:03.720 truly so eerie how much love did you ask him how much love he had for the people he had met 0.97
01:39:10.520 he had he has zero love he has zero love for his you know the people that he knows he doesn't want 1.00
01:39:18.540 children because kids and humans are gross and weird and it's like kids are stupid and ugly so 0.99
01:39:24.420 he doesn't want to have children of his own because he doesn't think he could love them 1.00
01:39:28.740 but like for the mass of humanity and like people he doesn't know has never met will have no
01:39:34.280 impact on his life whatever like he feels such deep love for them and it's like it's like talking
01:39:40.360 to an alien like it's like it's i it it's a the it's an uncanny sensation it's like all of a sudden
01:39:49.800 and you've encountered a ghost or something like it's a very weird feeling to be confronted with
01:39:55.780 a person who can say that their heart is moved by people that they've never met and don't know at
01:40:02.460 all yes and of course the second he meets them he's unmoved by them right exactly you know this
01:40:12.540 is this is the thing you're uh the the uh the lover of the uh the distant idea can never be
01:40:24.100 happy because the second he encounters it it becomes near then actually he loves the world
01:40:30.040 by its proximity him to himself so weird right it's like i don't i i well i ask a million questions
01:40:41.320 like trying to get to the bottom of this mystery and i i can't solve it like i understand why like
01:40:46.380 ugly people sick like like outcasted people like really hate their communities because they've been
01:40:54.420 you know outcasted by their communities or they're like around people every day that are better than 0.99
01:40:58.740 them and they're constantly suffering from envy and you know like they're being told left right
01:41:04.500 and center that actually they're so special and they're so beautiful too and everyone should love
01:41:08.200 them but their real lived experience is that that's not actually the case there's a lot of
01:41:12.280 cognitive dissonance that they're suffering through and like i understand why a certain
01:41:17.000 type of person gravitates towards christianity or liberal progressivism you know like it makes
01:41:22.520 sense to me like we've been discussing in this section of the book it's the way that they
01:41:26.820 weaponize their weakness against the strong but i don't understand how healthy beautiful strong
01:41:32.580 people can gravitate to that viewpoint it's like it's I see him and like men like him as these
01:41:40.160 tragic cases that were just like like castrated I guess at a very young age and then like are you
01:41:52.400 know have grown into these healthy men because their genes are still good or something but like
01:41:57.500 their virility has been stripped from them before they ever had a chance to like live into it you
01:42:03.860 know well they learned that that's that's the way they can be exceptional and great is by being
01:42:10.580 being these exceptionally moral humanitarians okay and so that's what i figured to power is being
01:42:18.040 like expressed by this desire to be ever more admirable and because they have like this great
01:42:24.840 eternal discipline and this great internal like consistency like uh no i can't love like the i
01:42:33.200 can't i could never love my own child because that would be selfish i'd be loving it as an 0.84
01:42:39.020 extension to me i have to love the hypothetical of like the indian dalit child because right
01:42:46.480 because that's not an extension of me i'm getting no benefit by a love loving that child ergo that
01:42:53.940 makes me more admirable ergo i have to communicate this to uh to bryn hilder as i speak to her at a
01:43:01.220 coffee shop uh yeah uh because like that's like what they're optimizing their across their like
01:43:09.380 their idea of themselves and their like like ability to prove to others that they are
01:43:15.780 you know sincere sincere in this and you'll you'll occasionally encounter people they're like
01:43:22.640 like aware of this hypocrisy themselves and they see this hypocrisy in others
01:43:27.100 so they like have to do this like prinksmanship with themselves to prove their sincerity that
01:43:34.480 like oh i'm not going to you know rich occasionally every so often you'll meet incredibly sincere
01:43:44.060 incredibly like tortured rich kid who has this idea that's like no i'm not going to fly first
01:43:49.020 class i'm gonna fly economy oh wait i'm not gonna fly economy i'm going to walk because that's better
01:43:54.340 for the environment or like uh you know these vegans who will only survive off the stuff they
01:44:01.180 like pull from dumpsters the vegan movement or like other weird bizarre like new forms of like
01:44:08.860 like asceticism yeah ascetic madness that they like invent as they go because they they know
01:44:16.000 deep down and like
01:44:18.240 they can see by the fact that
01:44:20.640 they haven't died
01:44:22.500 that they
01:44:24.680 are doing this in some way for like
01:44:26.500 social praise and social standing and like
01:44:28.620 they love the Indian Dalits so much 1.00
01:44:30.660 yet they aren't in
01:44:32.700 India you know in the 0.99
01:44:34.640 shit of the Ganges next to them 1.00
01:44:36.180 right so like
01:44:38.540 it's like I wonder the best
01:44:40.100 constantly like reinforce and prove it
01:44:42.480 and like ultimately
01:44:44.160 the best explanation sorry go ahead like ultimately it's self-frustrating because like
01:44:51.580 like either they do actually like die a martyr's death like proving their sincerity or they like
01:44:59.220 chase their tail around in a circle trying to find some new extreme thing that like prove their
01:45:06.100 sincerity without like actually destroying their lifestyle you know that yeah you know you're a
01:45:13.460 freegan who only eats things found in the dumpster but you live in like a ten thousand dollar a month
01:45:18.140 uh like luxury apartment flat yeah whatnot you know you'll encounter these people and
01:45:23.960 and it's like well you haven't actually you haven't given all your money away so
01:45:29.540 so like uh are you like you'll encounter one that they're like does actually give all their
01:45:35.020 money away but they only do it after they know that they have like a series of boyfriends and
01:45:39.260 like other other things that like their lifestyle actually isn't going to be lost it's like like
01:45:45.480 this internal tension because or like um uh david singer the philosopher uh like structured his life
01:45:58.100 that he would only receive fifty thousand dollars a year and all the rest would go to effective
01:46:02.940 altruist charity and like the obvious question is and it's like yeah but you're like a professor
01:46:09.800 gets to expense all his traveling like everything's getting you need expense to the institution so
01:46:16.020 like your actual lifestyle is like perfectly maintained and obviously it's like well why
01:46:22.780 50,000, you know, that's, like, still be, like, off, like, 5% of humanity? Eddie, you know,
01:46:34.320 why not 40,000? Why not 30,000? Why not 10,000? Why not 5,000? You know, and the obvious answer
01:46:42.080 is he chose exactly the amount that everyone he ever meets in his social circle or every,
01:46:50.240 like other professor or like every other person he will ever have to interact with the inlet at
01:46:56.180 like a cocktail party thinks is poor you know and that's how it's calculated they are willing to
01:47:03.580 flagellate it's like the currency of playing in the socially like in the social environment of
01:47:10.340 being acceptable like you said in their social environment the currency is self-flagellation
01:47:15.380 And so they're flagellating themselves just enough to be like forgiven for their privileges.
01:47:22.040 That's what I think is going on with this guy.
01:47:24.280 Like that was my best guess is that he feels himself to be so fortunate and he feels so
01:47:29.980 guilty about being privileged and fortunate that like he's finding the way to beat himself
01:47:36.580 just enough that nobody will hold his privilege against him.
01:47:41.240 yeah you see like all these neuroses in like the american upper class and the aspirin upper class
01:47:49.120 that like you know people who uh this was like kind of popular in the 2000s like no i don't
01:47:55.560 want to receive money from my parents to go to university i want to make it my own way you know
01:48:01.640 and this is like a popular thought right up until people realize how value
01:48:05.700 how worthless the university degree was and how much that didn't like set them up for life
01:48:10.520 life and then all suddenly like that thought kind of went away but uh you see this like
01:48:16.620 like profound desire to prove no i am self-made or no i am morally honest or no i am
01:48:24.420 this or that you know billionaires from wealthy families who were like
01:48:28.860 like should be like augustly um like proud of what their like parents and ancestors did
01:48:37.400 of their heritage yeah and instead like they're really struggling to insist that like uh you know
01:48:44.820 their upper middle class family who wasn't like rich rich but like uh but like was able to like
01:48:50.020 really set them up for success in life trying to pretend that actually they were drunken hillbillies
01:48:55.600 or like uh that that they like you know their dad was mean one time and so they were actually abused
01:49:02.320 because they have to prove to themselves that like, like, no, I wasn't made by other people.
01:49:06.960 They're not lucky. They're not privileged. Yeah. Yeah. Whereas like, it's like, because
01:49:11.140 the Christian morality has so successfully demonized and vilified privilege of any kind 0.68
01:49:16.980 that like people who have privilege, hate their privilege. They want to throw it away. Like they 0.63
01:49:22.880 feel guilty for having any sort of a leg up in life. And it's like that it's truly so tragic
01:49:28.760 because like this man i'm referring to is like gorgeous and had a beautiful wife like two
01:49:35.220 beautiful people that should be making 10 12 15 babies like beautiful little european babies
01:49:42.500 to populate the next generation and they have dogs so this is where like it's really actually
01:49:49.360 very tragic that they that they buy like because you you get them when they're young like they get
01:49:56.380 got when they're tiny little people who can't formulate a compelling argument against this
01:50:01.500 kind of indoctrination and like they these young beautiful young people who have this amazing
01:50:07.380 cultural inheritance this amazing genetic inheritance are like congratulating themselves
01:50:14.540 every day on squandering that wealth away so that they can remain acceptable to their peers
01:50:21.060 and this just ties right back into what Simpson was just writing about which is like to be this
01:50:27.240 noble type that Nietzsche is talking about and writing to you have to be able to be to stand on
01:50:33.340 your own like in this day and age to be proud of your heritage to be proud of your privilege like
01:50:39.360 to be grateful for it to accept it to love it to receive it like to choose not to punish or indict
01:50:45.720 yourself over your privilege like you really do have to be able to stand alone you have to be
01:50:50.520 able to stand against the like the mob tide of Christian values and liberal progressive values
01:50:58.180 that are like beating you day and night into trying like trying to make you feel guilty about
01:51:05.280 whatever you've inherited whether it's beauty like your race your wealth your intelligence like
01:51:11.500 anything that sets you above the mob like they will beat you with guilt until you relinquish it
01:51:18.200 and become just like them yeah this is this is where like i think maybe the greatest like
01:51:24.460 example like the greatest god we ever created was alexander because the important thing about
01:51:30.600 alexander is that he is not self-made very much the opposite you know like like his army was built
01:51:36.700 by his dad philip of macedon you know he was maneuvered into his position by his mother he
01:51:43.060 was like like basically eugenics project he was like given aristotle is like a a teacher uh at
01:51:51.320 like 13 14 he was placed in charge in command of like military units and like like praying for
01:52:00.200 command like years like uh like you know nelson is this impressive fair because he made like
01:52:07.540 post-captain at 22 where it's like alexander is like 14 already commanding more men than that
01:52:14.440 is like nothing about that is self-made it's completely unreplicable like no one listening
01:52:19.680 to this could ever hope to have a life like that it's like no that's like to be like yeah no amount
01:52:27.360 of bootstraps pulling gets you there it's like no that's why he's he's like magical not because
01:52:34.540 he's like self-made or bootstrapped but because like he's the the most impressive thing any
01:52:40.980 society has ever set out to artlessly make and like it took like the genius of
01:52:46.520 phil the macedon to like forge this angel in human form who like to conquer the entire world in
01:52:57.120 like by the age of 32 amazing so beautiful Nietzsche says everything good is an inheritance
01:53:05.760 what is not inherited isn't perfect it's a beginning yeah like um like like Napoleon
01:53:13.040 had just assumed the throne of France not even like started his like not even really properly
01:53:20.080 started his startle conquest at the age where alexander was like almost already dead you know
01:53:27.700 and that's and that's like the beautiful like miracle of it that's like oh like use a parent
01:53:34.860 or like you as like someone with like like children around you that you can you can mentor
01:53:41.240 like you could make an alexander you can actually like like forge this like destiny of your people
01:53:47.660 like actually like bring forth you know what the jews would call messiah
01:53:53.500 no like you said an angel in human form or like homer calls them like god-like men
01:54:02.760 yes or how they're presented in greek mythology like these men
01:54:07.880 are imaged or felt they're felt to be literal sons of gods like zeus or hercules or aries
01:54:17.280 Apollo like they're always getting babies on these mortal women and because that's what it
01:54:22.420 is like when you encounter a man of that caliber like an Achilles like an Alexander like a Napoleon
01:54:28.540 it's like a god a god sired this man like there is too much perfection like distilled down into
01:54:38.940 this one human being for any normal human to have given him birth yes uh well actually Napoleon was
01:54:46.900 forged through misery uh he he wasn't self-made but he was like uh institutionally beaten uh
01:54:56.200 the military school at brienne produced interesting people but uh continuing with simpson uh two yes
01:55:06.140 i'll try to get through this list implicit throughout the foregoing in the next injunction
01:55:11.120 that we must believe Nietzsche would press upon every man who would fain qualify as a
01:55:16.680 bridge to the superman, namely, master thyself. Nietzsche may have called men, or at least some
01:55:24.460 men, to a life that was beyond good and evil, but though he may have called them away from
01:55:30.060 the current morality and have styled himself the amoralist and a free spirit, yet he deeply
01:55:35.680 believed as much already as must already be evident enough the life to which he called men
01:55:41.860 required a morality more difficult and self-discipline more austere than any he rejected
01:55:47.220 he believed that before ever a man could become an organic whole before he could know what he
01:55:53.720 wanted most and be able without strain to do it he must first have put himself under stern and
01:55:59.640 prolonged discipline. He who would become a free spirit must start at the bottom and advance from
01:56:06.040 one stage of mastery to the next. He who wisheth one day to fly must learn some standing and walking
01:56:14.160 and running and climbing and dancing. One does not fly into flying. He declared that the kind
01:56:20.980 of freedom in which he did not believe what what is often called falling one's insta things in an
01:56:30.200 age like the present he said is simply adds to one's peril to be left to one's instincts
01:56:34.820 the instincts contradict disturb and destroy each other a reasonable system of education
01:56:40.400 upon at least one of these instinct systems being paralyzed under an iron pressure in order to allow
01:56:48.220 others to assert themselves grow stronger and dominate i i want to interject here uh
01:56:53.900 his statement one does not fly into flying uh it's interesting because that is not all true
01:57:02.740 birds like birds are like thrown out of the nest and like fly before they can walk but it is
01:57:08.320 interesting because that exactly describes how man got to fly that like man did all the other
01:57:14.380 stuff first you know right down to like the Wright brothers um ran a bicycle shop which is like an
01:57:23.020 interesting like like you know they were like one of the early adopters of one of like the early
01:57:29.920 mechanizations of like man's movement you know you know one must one must uh
01:57:37.840 stand bicycle into flying walk climb uh one less roll into flight which is actually
01:57:46.520 yeah but this is actually how planes take off now they they roll and then they take off
01:57:50.780 it's another good illustration of what i read from nietzsche though that everything
01:57:55.920 perfect is an inheritance like birds inherit the ability to fly humans have to had to work to
01:58:02.680 like gain that ability and the laborious process of like building those
01:58:08.060 those qualities of self-mastery and those greater senses those bigger feelings of freedom like yeah
01:58:15.200 you do have to work for that but I wouldn't I would say that some people are born like people
01:58:20.480 are born into different levels of that trajectory you know like some people are born with so much
01:58:25.780 beauty grace privilege power intellect like self-regard and reverence for themselves that
01:58:32.880 like it's a pretty quick step into flying like they don't have to work as hard and then there
01:58:38.800 are people who are born like really far back on that privilege scale and have like many more
01:58:45.140 many more levels that they have to work through
01:58:48.580 hmm
01:58:55.780 elements in one's nature that could neither win nor persuade to voluntary subordination in one's
01:59:04.640 innermost being one must be ready even to kill he directed those who qualified to life a moderate
01:59:11.100 voluntary poverty of great simplicity and of much solitude three the third injunction that
01:59:18.740 Nietzsche would lay upon all who would be bridges to the Superman who must undertake to create
01:59:25.000 beyond themselves even though they go to pieces and the attempt is love thyself but he added
01:59:31.840 and emphasized let it be with great love with great contempt not to be sure with the love of
01:59:39.040 the sick and affected for with them stinketh even even self-love one must learn to love oneself with
01:59:47.040 the wholesome and healthy love that one may endure to be with oneself and not go roving about such
01:59:53.420 roving about christeneth itself brotherly love with these words have there hitherto been the
02:00:00.560 best lying in dissembling and verily it is no commandment for today and tomorrow to learn to
02:00:06.440 love oneself rather it is of all arts the finest subtlest last impatient as he cries where is beauty
02:00:15.500 where i must will with my whole will where i will love and perish that an image may not remain
02:00:24.300 merely a language loving and perishing these have rhymed for eternity will to love that is the 0.67
02:00:32.940 that is to be ready also for death ready must thou be to burn thyself in thine own flame
02:00:39.960 how could thou become new
02:00:42.000 if thou had not first become ash
02:00:44.080 only where there are graves
02:00:46.400 are there resurrections
02:00:48.080 but Nietzsche's love for
02:00:51.780 but Nietzsche's love thyself
02:00:53.280 has a corollary and counterpart
02:00:55.340 that is a homologous
02:00:58.480 to the like injunction
02:01:00.320 with which Jesus followed
02:01:01.840 his primary teaching
02:01:03.320 Jesus had hinged everything
02:01:05.480 all love to one's God
02:01:07.060 and one's neighbor
02:01:08.480 But then, to avoid misunderstanding as to what this entailed, he also said,
02:01:12.820 quote,
02:01:13.440 If any man cometh unto me, and doth not hate his father and mother, and wife and children,
02:01:18.660 he cannot be my disciple.
02:01:21.800 Unquote.
02:01:22.560 And in the same spirit Nietzsche enjoyed,
02:01:25.820 quote,
02:01:26.500 Be not considerate of thy neighbor.
02:01:28.920 End quote.
02:01:29.280 And, quote,
02:01:31.400 My brethren, I advise you not to neighbor love.
02:01:35.080 I advise you to furthest love.
02:01:36.840 Let the furthest and the furthest be the motive of thy today.
02:01:42.080 In thy friend shall they love the superman as thy motive.
02:01:46.380 That is, Nietzsche certainly, and perhaps Nietzsche and Jesus both,
02:01:49.420 address themselves to a life in which they undertook
02:01:52.180 to lift the eyes of mankind to a new elevation and a new destiny.
02:01:57.500 This hope and this dream possessed them utterly.
02:02:00.780 They gave themselves to it with a purity of devotion and abandon,
02:02:04.300 such as humans are privileged to see only too seldom
02:02:08.920 and must push into odd silence and profoundest reverence
02:02:13.540 all who really comprehend what it meant.
02:02:16.820 They felt that the realization of mankind's highest hope
02:02:20.300 hinged in some very real and terrible way
02:02:25.760 upon their own utter fidelity.
02:02:28.040 They could feel looking into them and depending on them
02:02:30.860 all those higher men about them and yet to come
02:02:33.900 some struggling to be born some struggling to get on their feet and find their way others struggling
02:02:39.480 to foreshadow in their own person a new future for humankind and showing in their faces the
02:02:45.560 distant light of the great noontide towards which their eyes were lifted and their feet set that is
02:02:52.980 in the man who would prove worthy of so high a calling there must be something undissuadable
02:02:59.540 which will not allow him to betray himself
02:03:03.580 and a higher mankind to come for anything.
02:03:07.480 He must beware lest the very tenderness and sympathy of his heart
02:03:11.120 seduce him into infidelity.
02:03:13.880 But let me put Nietzsche's own words before you.
02:03:17.240 Quote,
02:03:17.960 Higher than love of your neighbor is love to the furthest and feature ones.
02:03:22.040 Higher still than love to mankind is love of things and phantoms.
02:03:26.740 the phantom that runneth on before thee my brother is fairer than thou why dost thou not
02:03:33.360 give unto the unto it thy flesh and thy bones for thou fierce and runnest to thy neighbor
02:03:40.740 woe unto all living ones who have not an elevation which is above their pity all great love is above
02:03:49.560 all its pity for it seeketh to create what it loved myself do i offer unto my love and
02:03:55.960 my neighbor as myself such as the language of all creators all creators however are hard
02:04:02.840 and again who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will
02:04:09.900 to inflict great pain the ability to suffer is a small matter but not to perish from eternal
02:04:16.160 distress and doubt when one afflicts great suffering and hears the cries of it that is
02:04:21.280 great that belongs to greatness and yet again this why so hard said the damid one day day
02:04:29.580 said the diamond one day to the charcoal are we then not near relatives why so soft oh my brethren
02:04:39.380 Thus do I ask you,
02:04:41.120 Are ye then not my brethren?
02:04:43.640 Why so soft?
02:04:44.780 Why so submissive and yeely?
02:04:47.280 Why is there so much negation and agnogation in your heart?
02:04:51.580 Why is there so little fate in your looks?
02:04:54.260 And if ye will not be fates in the next row once,
02:04:59.700 how can ye one day conquer with me?
02:05:02.180 If your hardness will not glance and cut and chip to peace,
02:05:05.900 how can ye one day create with me? 1.00
02:05:08.800 For the creeders are hard, and blessedness must it seem to you 1.00
02:05:12.780 to pressure your hand upon millenniums as upon wax. 1.00
02:05:18.000 Blessedness to write upon the will of millenniums as upon brass.
02:05:21.680 Harder than brass, nobler than brass.
02:05:24.180 Entirely hard is only the noblest.
02:05:27.020 This new table, O my brethren, put I up over you.
02:05:31.000 Become hard.
02:05:31.840 so that a conversation between a diamond and a lump of coal there that's back to the reader
02:05:39.180 did you miss that uh five but the end of all such hardness that a man should obey himself
02:05:48.300 he who cannot obey himself will have to obey the will of another or the garden of the lord
02:05:53.760 would soon be trampled to ruin by runaway cattle and swine but every potential creator
02:05:59.180 who would fain fulfill his destiny, and every man who would know the wholeness that waits upon
02:06:04.320 the flowering coordination of all his power, must learn to take his orders from that innermost core
02:06:09.440 of what he is. He must, in the profoundest sense, be true to himself. That a man may learn to obey
02:06:18.220 himself, Nietzsche, like Blake, would have him ignore all moral rules or codified standards of
02:06:24.420 conduct, whether they be the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the teachings of Jesus
02:06:29.600 as a whole, or anything else, whatever, that can be made into an externally uniformed moral dead
02:06:35.040 hand. William Blake was completely right when he declared, quote, I tell you no virtue can exist
02:06:40.880 but by breaking these Ten Commandments. Jesus was all virtue and lived by impulse, not by rules,
02:06:46.940 unquote. He who lived by rules can only become the Pharisee, the man who lacks the courage and 0.56
02:06:52.620 the honesty to accept and avow and obey himself. There can be no real virtue, no personal worth
02:06:59.460 that is vital and integral with one's own, with one's own innermost being, something more than a
02:07:06.580 mere, quote, skin or cloak, except as one's very self be in one's actions, as the mother is in the
02:07:15.640 child. Let that, Nietzsche urge, be your formula of virtue. Let it be your whole virtue that your
02:07:22.120 innermost being shows in its face in your conduct six one thing more is to be made explicit i need
02:07:31.800 not undertake the quote quote passages where the idea may be found perhaps indeed it is something
02:07:37.360 that a man of insight senses in and distills from his memory of the whole body of nature's writing
02:07:42.580 it is this an undertaking to obey thyself do not confuse the cell which thou art to obey
02:07:49.040 with thy reason. But this admonition, though very definitely to be taken to heart by all
02:07:56.140 intellectuals, is not for a moment to be misunderstood as any counsel to flout the
02:08:00.940 rational faculty in favor of beggarism and willfulness. Those who have followed my story
02:08:06.100 thus far must recognize the great respect that I pay to the scientific evidence of any issue
02:08:12.680 and the emphasis that I have placed on accumulating a sufficient body of knowledge to form a solid
02:08:18.340 basis for any important decision and though all my intense probing of the mystical experience
02:08:23.780 i have seen to it that reason and all that go goes with it facts analysts deduction discrimination
02:08:30.980 and endorsement or veto are given their day in court where the invisible judge the self
02:08:36.520 which is the concentrated center of life impulse desire and will listens with its many ears before
02:08:43.880 it retires into its sanctum of inner stillness to review the matter in its entirely and to render a
02:08:49.520 verdict reason is thus an insipid indispensable check-in aid for reason of itself is not alive
02:08:57.000 everything is dead and nothing stirs until the impulse comes in nothing stirs until one or more
02:09:02.640 of the moving powers that reside in itself begin to assert themselves and even a reason's veto
02:09:08.740 cannot be accepted as final on occasion under exceptional circumstances self may decide to
02:09:14.200 override the reason sabido on a basis of its own uh my aside here um so simpson is 100 right with
02:09:24.980 this although he it doesn't seem he had the language yet to describe it uh like uh basically
02:09:31.720 all like psychometrics and like modern research into like human like neuroscience confirms that
02:09:40.320 like uh the most powerful reasoning part of your brain is like like subconscious and sublingual
02:09:48.860 like you're the total compute power in your head like uh is not visible to you like the part that's
02:09:56.260 like linguistic and like able to form like coherent language arguments you know the part
02:10:02.920 that like manipulates english english or other languages is like 50 000 years old whereas like
02:10:09.220 your ability to like throw a ball or make like complex strategic judgment is like millions and
02:10:14.560 millions of years old and so like the highest like most potent like greatest reasoning part of your
02:10:21.780 brain the most uh part that's intuition but like higher than intuition and higher than reason and
02:10:28.200 higher than arguments and higher than like logic you know the the part of you that makes like your
02:10:34.000 most powerful judgments is like the highest judging part of your brain is like pre-lingual
02:10:44.440 and you can't expect it to like come to you with like fully formed arguments or like night
02:10:50.360 neat sentences are expressible, persuasive arguments, because that's not how it expresses
02:10:56.580 itself. It expresses itself as a feeling. A feeling, yeah. Yeah, Nietzsche says that
02:11:02.720 the instinct is the greatest intelligence that has ever been discovered or something like that.
02:11:08.420 It's like, the instinct is the most intelligent intelligence. And yeah, reason is post hoc. It's
02:11:15.240 like often it's just rationalization and it's like in a way reason tends to be like the the
02:11:26.100 excuses that you offer yourself before the tribunal so it's the way that you like try to get
02:11:32.720 other people to approve of your behaviors and I think that the higher your rank the more noble
02:11:39.640 you are the less you feel compelled to excuse yourself or to come up with excuses to explain
02:11:46.860 yourself to rationalize your behavior and like the lower your rank is the more afraid you are
02:11:53.120 of being punished the more compelled you feel to have your reasons like to prove something about
02:12:00.000 the rectitude of your choices but like I think one of the hallmark distinctions between the noble
02:12:07.000 type and the slave type is that the noble feels free to feel his feelings and act in accordance 0.95
02:12:13.500 with his feelings and the slave type is one in whom the feeling always has to be retarded or 0.95
02:12:20.460 suppressed or subjected in some way to the will of somebody else like that in my mind that's kind 0.87
02:12:27.480 of the working definition of the difference between the types it's like the noble person
02:12:32.180 doesn't have to distort their feelings to please other people and the slave does so the noble type
02:12:40.040 is the one who's able to more readily trust their feelings because the feeling doesn't have to be
02:12:44.660 mediated through language and through like explanation and justification where the slave
02:12:51.060 type is divorced from him his his true self as simpson is naming it in this section like
02:12:58.400 your true self is your deep instinctual gut feelings and then to like go to beat a dead
02:13:06.380 horse at this point because I say this about everything but like the value of your instinct
02:13:11.480 also depends on your health right it's not that everybody's instincts are excellent and perfect
02:13:17.960 and should be followed at all times if you're a sickly weak or like deranged person then your
02:13:25.320 instinct also will be sickly weak and deranged and in that case often the better thing that you
02:13:31.380 can do for yourself is to subordinate yourself to somebody whose instinct is healthy to somebody
02:13:37.440 whose will is stronger than yours and whose vision is clearer than yours and who is better able to
02:13:43.920 command not only you but themselves and um that's what's like the most impossible thing to do
02:13:51.500 in the age of the rabble, the roused rabble, you know, the age of the mob. It's like everyone
02:13:57.680 thinks they need to be their own boss. And for most people, most people are not able to command
02:14:04.340 themselves. And most people's instincts are sick, just like their bodies are sick, just like their
02:14:09.860 minds are sick. So that is who they really are, right? Like your gut is your true self,
02:14:18.480 but they don't necessarily deserve obedience like somebody else's gut feelings actually might be
02:14:26.740 better than yours if you're like lower in caste or like sickly in constitution yeah the number one
02:14:35.880 thing to watch to watch for and like someone you choose to follow is um like when you ask like why
02:14:45.120 are they making a certain decision or why are they doing a certain certain thing like uh you know
02:14:50.960 they'll give you a reason or something but like but like any like person worthy to follow will
02:14:58.360 ultimately be like will ultimately say to you it feels right yeah this i like this idea this felt
02:15:05.500 right yeah i made a judgment it feels good in my guts yeah exactly whereas like someone who's
02:15:10.820 completely unworthy to follow will always manage to direct responsibility somewhere else will
02:15:17.340 always will always manage to like put it on a like procedure or on a um or someone else's suggestion
02:15:25.780 or like someone who's always outsourcing yeah they're outsourcing they're like they're citing
02:15:33.140 sources they're outsourcing responsibility and authority to somebody else like that is
02:15:38.280 immediately a confession that they do not feel capable of commanding themselves because they're
02:15:43.680 looking for someone else to justify their behavior. So if they're telling you out of their own mouth
02:15:49.020 that they can't command themselves, there's very little reason for you to obey them. The only
02:15:53.640 person worthy of obeying is somebody who is capable of commanding themselves. Yeah. And this is
02:16:01.220 like uh the thing is you see that or you see them like screw up and they have like and oh the
02:16:10.940 they nearly have a way to outsource source responsibility you know yeah know that when
02:16:17.800 they're making decisions for you they aren't making decisions what's best best for like the
02:16:22.820 cause or you or like what you're doing they're making decisions based on like what will allow
02:16:27.840 them to outsource responsibility for that decision exactly exactly yes yeah and Nietzsche
02:16:34.680 says that in Zarathustra Zarathustra says that right like commanding is actually the heaviest
02:16:39.060 responsibility because you have to like pay you have to pay the consequences of your own mistakes
02:16:45.840 you even have to be the judge of your own mistakes and the mistakes that you lead other people into
02:16:51.000 and like so you also don't want to follow or obey somebody who can't admit that they're wrong
02:16:56.280 because again like be always trying to blame someone else is just the other side of the coin
02:17:02.020 of drawing your responsibility like your authority from somebody else which means again 0.97
02:17:08.140 you can't obey yourself if you can't say oops i fucked up like i'm gonna fix it 0.86
02:17:13.460 then you also can't you also are not self-sourcing your own authority and you're not commanding 0.98
02:17:21.700 yourself exactly no um and there are other activities of the rational faculty against
02:17:31.400 which the self needs to be even even more on its guard it generally tends to become the servant of
02:17:38.440 the little self and very expert at pulling forth reasons for why a man ought to do when in fact he
02:17:46.080 wants to do only for the sake of such paltry things as security comfort name and influence
02:17:52.800 by which he is tied to his past what he has been instead of being lured and driven towards his
02:18:00.000 future what he has in him to become his destiny anyone in whom life is a great expansive propelling
02:18:07.720 force therefore has need to beware of reason as a greater strainer and paralyzer a potential
02:18:13.700 straitjacket. Bike realized this as clearly as Nietzsche did. Near to the beginning of his,
02:18:19.640 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, he had this famous passage. Those who restrain desire do so
02:18:26.220 because theirs is weak enough to be restrained, and the strainer of reason usurps its place
02:18:31.420 and governs the unwilling. And being restrained, it by degrees becomes passive till it is only the
02:18:38.820 shadow of desire. This reason can become the great deadener, the great killer of the divine
02:18:44.580 possibilities in men. He who is resolved to become what he is must early learn to free himself from
02:18:51.480 all undue respect for precedent and from all concern for consistency. What one does today
02:18:58.160 requires no reconciliation with what one did a year ago or even yesterday. Each set of circumstances
02:19:04.940 is a new and must be faced as if it had never been faced before but perhaps the rational faculty is
02:19:10.960 to as an aside like that's like what it means to be a captain of your own life that like you're
02:19:17.000 actually like making decisions you're unfollowing like a checklist which a lot of people fall into
02:19:24.100 you know this like deontological like trap of life that you unwittingly turn yourself into an
02:19:31.380 automaton of the philosophers who've like made moral arguments to you when it's like no you're
02:19:36.700 a lie the point of living is to like actually make judgment calls and like make choices for yourself
02:19:43.700 yeah but perhaps a rational faculty is to be guarded against most of all especially among
02:19:49.920 intellectuals for its tendency to shape dress up organize and press upon our conscious
02:19:55.880 The patterns of conduct, even a whole series of correlated patterns as ideas, theories, and ideals
02:20:01.940 into which we try to force our living impulses and desires.
02:20:06.200 But our living impulses and desires have their own form of expression which belongs to them
02:20:11.700 and which they take spontaneously.
02:20:14.460 And when we try to force them into the dead mold of any pattern perceived by the mind, they die.
02:20:21.380 Ideas and ideals are only abstractions.
02:20:24.000 they have their place but they are without roots in our innermost being and an attempt to live by
02:20:30.280 them to live not by what one deeply feels but by what one merely thinks can only be withdrawal
02:20:38.420 from life and invasion and denial of life it will always be artificial force and a last analysis
02:20:46.320 false a last analysis false a putting on of something one really is not one could be sure
02:20:54.200 of touching the strains of vitality if one undertook to live by one's bowels that is if
02:20:59.460 one allowed oneself to put through motions by one's head but all this can be no more than
02:21:07.420 general warning in the last analysis the problem of each man who wants really to live is individual
02:21:13.800 and personal he must find his way to the vital quick within him that is core to himself
02:21:19.640 and live in most the most instant intimate and instant obedience to it as for nietzsche himself
02:21:27.220 hour he said that his most terrible mistress was that which spoke unto him without voice
02:21:32.780 in the hour of his abysmal stillness listen for that word and what has been vouchsafed unto you
02:21:40.120 heed it very evidently however this is an experience that very few men in mankind's
02:21:47.680 present stage of development can ever know most of all it is alien to those whom nietzsche called
02:21:54.080 the good and the just for to have gained the social approval that these labels imply they
02:21:59.600 must have shaped their conduct to the external stereotype and largely alien requirements of the
02:22:05.140 prevailing moral code and convictions they must have made themselves compliant submissive and
02:22:10.820 obedient but Nietzsche's words quote he who obeyeth in the sense that is of conforming
02:22:18.480 does not listen to himself nay by having more and more turned away from the behest of his own soul
02:22:27.920 he has put his soul to sleep it must in the end even put it to death until in effect he has
02:22:35.060 no soul and his conduct is quite unillumined and unguided by any light from an innermost being of
02:22:44.180 his own. An MPC. Such are the people who say and feel in their hearts, we already know what is good
02:22:53.560 and just. We possess it also. Woe to those who seek thereafter. And it was precisely these people
02:23:01.460 whom Nietzsche pronounced, quote,
02:23:03.100 the greatest danger to the whole human future, unquote.
02:23:06.480 He declared much as Jesus had before him that, quote,
02:23:10.340 whatever harm the wicked may do,
02:23:12.220 the harm of the good is the harmfulest harm.
02:23:14.520 And whatever harm the world malingers may do, 0.95
02:23:19.740 the harm of the good is the harmfulest harm, end quote. 1.00
02:23:25.960 For they are the Pharisees, and Pharisees must they be.
02:23:29.260 moreover him who devises his own virtue goes away of his own which is unfolded from within himself
02:23:37.580 him must the pharisees ever crucify for he makes the very earth they stand on rock by asking what 0.52
02:23:44.520 is good and breaks up old tables and old values by setting up a new good which is above and beyond 0.99
02:23:50.440 the old jesus had only to say quote moses and the prophets told you so and so but i tell you
02:23:57.180 otherwise end quote and quote except that your rightful righteousness shall exceed the righteousness
02:24:03.880 of the scribes and pharisees end quote and and after that the good and just went out and put
02:24:12.020 their heads together to destroy him to them must such a man ever seen their most deadly foe and a
02:24:18.620 veritable demon and ever they will they cry quote give us barabbas rather than this jesus better 0.92
02:24:25.360 the malefactor who only breaks our laws in the innovator who does not only break it but supplants
02:24:31.840 it end quote yeah and yeah oh that that was like a one of simpson's like uh that wasn't a source
02:24:46.300 quotation that was like him uh summarizing and yet yeah assert Nietzsche quote all that is called
02:24:55.060 evil by the good must come together in order that one truth may be born the daring mentor
02:25:00.920 the prolonged distress the cruel nay the tedium the tedium the cutting into the quick how seldom
02:25:09.240 do these come together out of such sea however is truth produced end quote there is yet one more
02:25:17.920 body of counsel to be presented here and with this i may well conclude my attempt to summarize
02:25:23.640 Nietzsche's admonitions to those who'd feign become bridges to Superman. It might perhaps
02:25:29.320 be epitomized in the three words, don't resist evil. Just what was the meaning that Jesus put
02:25:35.740 into these same words or the body of his experience that dictated their utterance
02:25:41.140 is now impossible to know. In the context given to the injunction in the Gospel of Matthew,
02:25:46.960 it is a matter of turning the other cheek. But overcoming evil with good and heaving coals of
02:25:52.660 fire on one's enemy head, which is commonly interpreted to mean maybe nothing but the most
02:25:58.340 refined and exquisite revenge. And as there is considerable reason to believe that all such was
02:26:04.060 at the utmost removed from Jesus' spirit, it may be that the substance of his teaching at this
02:26:09.660 point and the motive behind him were much closer to Nietzsche's counsel than is
02:26:13.900 at once apparent. But at any rate, with Nietzsche, the object was to help higher men to avoid
02:26:21.240 allowing their creative powers to be diverted into and frittered away and wasted by mere negative
02:26:26.920 resistance to evil. Necessary as it might be for other non-creative men to attack evil with all
02:26:33.800 the powers at their command, such struggle was something in which the truly creative man must
02:26:39.020 see his very dire peril. Somehow he must prevent his being drawn into it. He must never seek an
02:26:45.160 air and altitude and a fellowship in which the pressure of evil upon him will not so much as
02:26:51.080 require his resistance he must undertake to provide himself with every circumstances that
02:26:56.700 will favor the happy fruition of his pregnancy the fulfillment of his destiny
02:27:01.060 i am not quite sure how i feel about that in light of yeah i will reason matters it makes sense
02:27:08.680 uh it makes sense to me i think that like nietzsche says elsewhere that there are
02:27:14.180 um three natural casts and the highest cast is this like intellectual spiritual type
02:27:20.840 and the second highest cast is the like war warrior type we talked about this last episode
02:27:26.240 it's like yeah the warriors i'm not sure that's true uh this is like where i i'm like i think i
02:27:35.460 disagree with misha like just outright that like i have i've encountered enough like intellectuals
02:27:45.180 thinkers and whatnot um like uh like as much as we might like uncle ted's manifesto like
02:27:54.100 fairly objectively he would probably have had more of an impact if he put that much thought
02:28:00.380 and consideration into the actual campaign of attack like uh like or if he'd been able to
02:28:08.140 recruit people to do the heart the fighting work for him like he probably he that's kind of a case
02:28:15.720 in point because I don't think he really was primarily a warrior type he was primarily an
02:28:22.320 intellectual and that's why his energy flowed more easily into manifesto writing like the trick is
02:28:29.460 how do you get people with that type of intellect to have warriors at their disposal to carry out
02:28:35.460 the vision to do the fighting to shed the blood you know and bomb the buildings or whatever like
02:28:40.920 finally i i fundamentally disagree with like the supposition that um
02:28:46.840 that like socrates or aristotle or like or like jesus or even like great philosophers like nietzsche
02:28:57.380 are of a higher order than like alexander or caesar and napoleon or hitler i don't think that
02:29:04.800 Nietzsche would say that Socrates is of a higher order than Alexander.
02:29:09.080 No, you wouldn't choose Socrates.
02:29:11.100 You might choose another that he admires.
02:29:13.820 But, like, fundamentally, like, maybe I'm a Marxist in this respect,
02:29:18.680 which is ironic because Marx did not become a great man of history in this respect.
02:29:22.660 But, like, it's not enough to, like, describe ideas or, like, to come up with them.
02:29:31.000 You have to actually, like, enact them.
02:29:33.040 well it's not enough you're right it's insufficient but it's necessary and what
02:29:38.720 Nietzsche's talking about and Simpson's alluding to here is that like what are the conditions
02:29:42.840 that allow people to actually write these ideas down in a way that is transmissible
02:29:47.880 and communicable to the people that then can be heartened by that message and go and carry out
02:29:54.840 the work you can't write what a manifesto on a battlefield i'm not sure i i agree with that i
02:30:04.840 i think that like the deed the the act of the deed often communicates more so than the manifesto
02:30:14.820 but only if it gets written down only if it's something that's communicable to other people
02:30:20.860 Otherwise, it's just a beautiful sacrifice to the gods, but it's nothing that can be used to hearten other people.
02:30:26.920 Like, there has to be the Homer.
02:30:30.220 Like, there's no Achilles without Homer, and Homer was not Achilles.
02:30:34.400 Homer could not have written the Iliad if he was Achilles.
02:30:38.880 I disagree that the act itself is unintelligible.
02:30:44.460 If you actually, like, thought through what you were—
02:30:47.860 But you couldn't have heard about it.
02:30:50.860 Unless somebody wrote it down.
02:30:52.600 You couldn't have heard about it unless somebody went through the effort of communicating it, which is not just easier or automatic.
02:31:01.300 But the thing is, the act of the person writing it down, like, that's almost forced by the deed itself.
02:31:08.060 Like, you know, there are a million things someone could do.
02:31:14.840 like uh you know you know the act of assassinating jfk forced it to be written about it's not like
02:31:22.600 uh it's not like there's any world in which it wasn't recorded uh by necessity yeah but it's
02:31:30.340 like there's all these different ways to tell a story right if you let like the hollywood
02:31:34.740 storytellers get a hold of what achilles did at troy it's gonna come out like a christian
02:31:41.020 morality tales so it's like you have to have people of a high enough quality of soul that
02:31:46.300 they can interpret the story in such a way that it isn't just being perverted into another servant
02:31:53.000 of the prevailing morality like you have to have these people who have the clarity of mind and like
02:31:58.240 the capacity for isolation in the sense that Nietzsche has described it in Simpsons talking
02:32:04.040 about where they can like get this you know 10,000 foot view of the event that allows them to tell
02:32:10.520 the story like storytelling is a craft and it can very easily be devolved into just propaganda
02:32:16.140 spewing which is why you know we have like streaming devices with bajillions of different 0.97
02:32:22.040 television programs on them and all of them are absolute shit because nobody knows how to tell a 0.99
02:32:28.200 good story like it's just all these garbage people like taking in the event and just vomiting up the 0.99
02:32:35.580 prevailing morality like they have they can't even see what happened without interpreting it
02:32:41.600 through the lens of the prevailing morality so you actually have to have a philosopher who's
02:32:45.940 able to separate himself from the marketplace like zarathustra does in the parable like he has to go
02:32:52.320 up on the mountain and go into his own solitude and gain this elevated perspective of history itself
02:32:59.400 in order to be able to present the story in such a way that it enheartens the warriors
02:33:04.820 to fight for what is beautiful instead of enlisting mercenaries into the propaganda battles of the
02:33:12.460 maggots yeah so this is this is where like i am very much a partisan of caesar that like the great
02:33:21.460 man has to not only has to like do great things and then like write his own story of it that like
02:33:29.900 uh like caesar not only like conquered gaul he also wrote the propaganda campaign and like the
02:33:35.680 military analysis of his conquest of gaul and like it's flawed and is like you know the author
02:33:43.180 of the downfall of the british empire as he was uh this is the one thing winston churchill did
02:33:48.680 that like locks him into history no matter what happens is that he wrote like 30 volumes across
02:33:57.160 his life on like every matter that like he will forever be like one of the necessary sources that
02:34:04.120 you have to read in spite of the fact that he's lying uh but this is these two men are just a
02:34:09.280 case in point because of all the warriors battle chieftains generals like chiefs of state military
02:34:18.040 victors like of all of those men you can name two that did it actually a good job of like sharing
02:34:24.440 their perspective on the event in a way that has been transmissible through the ages oh no that's
02:34:30.200 just like the two most famous like uh like obviously hitler his early campaign wrote
02:34:36.600 i'm just saying it's not typical of the warrior type to also be a poet it's not typical for them
02:34:44.960 to have both that
02:34:46.900 battle ferocity and
02:34:48.740 the clarity of vision
02:34:50.560 to interpret that into a story
02:34:52.840 that
02:34:53.220 tells the truth about the event
02:34:56.900 In the
02:34:58.960 18th, 19th, and early
02:35:00.960 20th century, it was very
02:35:02.880 difficult, as attested by my
02:35:04.960 massive collection of military memoirs
02:35:07.960 but
02:35:08.200 I will
02:35:11.160 have to go into a
02:35:12.640 greater... Nausea Tung wrote a
02:35:14.960 a shocking man i have his like military writings on my wall as well but uh but back to nietzsche
02:35:22.060 and uh simpson but again let nietzsche speak for himself in his genealogy of morals written next
02:35:28.500 to last year of his real life mental life he notes how every sort of revengeful human misery
02:35:35.200 presses into the consciousness of happy and healthy people and resists their right to be happy
02:35:40.560 even making them ashamed to be happy in the face of this and as a warning to all those of decidedly
02:35:47.820 superior giftedness that they should not allow themselves to make a virtue and a mission out of 1.00
02:35:52.820 trying to alleviate the handicaps and miseries of the sick the broken the retarded defective or 1.00
02:35:57.900 disabled Nietzsche exclaimed quote but there could not possibly be a greater and more fatal 0.97
02:36:06.580 misunderstanding that when the happy the well-constituted the strong in body and soul
02:36:11.420 begin in this way to doubt their right to happiness away with this perverted world away
02:36:18.140 with this shameful innervation of feeling that the sick should not make the healthy sick and that it
02:36:24.600 is what such an innervation we come to this ought to be our supreme object on earth but for this it
02:36:31.640 is above all essential that the health should remain separate, that the healthy should remain
02:36:37.000 separated from the sick, that they should guard themselves even from the look of the sick, that
02:36:41.820 they should not even associate with the sick, or might it be perchance their mission to be nurses
02:36:46.920 and doctors, that they cannot in a worse way misunderstand and slander their mission. The
02:36:53.140 higher must not degrade itself to be the tool of the lower. The pathos of distance must also to
02:36:59.080 all eternity keep their mission separate the right of the happy to exist the prior
02:37:03.560 right of bells with all the with a full tone over the discordant crack belt is verily a thousand
02:37:09.560 times greater they alone are the sureties of the future future they alone are under
02:37:15.400 bounden duty to the future man what they can what they should do that could the sick never do 0.75
02:37:23.620 and never should do but in order that they may be able to do what only they ought to do how can
02:37:30.060 they possibly be free to play the doctor the comforter the savior of the sick and therefore
02:37:34.940 good air good air in a way at any rate from the neighborhood of all the mad houses and hospitals
02:37:40.960 of culture and therefore good company our own company of solitude if it must be so but at any
02:37:47.720 away from the evil fumes of inner corruption
02:37:50.600 and the secret worm-eateness of the sick.
02:37:54.420 End quote.
02:37:55.680 But there is yet another, even more illuminating passage,
02:37:59.720 taken from one of his earlier books,
02:38:02.600 which I consider to be one of the most profoundly wise
02:38:05.120 and infinitely precious pieces of counsel
02:38:07.320 that any creative man can lay to heart,
02:38:09.820 especially in a day of decay like our own.
02:38:12.780 It is entitled,
02:38:13.940 Not to be a Soldier of Culture Without Necessity,
02:38:17.720 It reads as follows, quote, at last people are learning what it costs us so dear not
02:38:25.680 to know in our youth, that we must first do superior actions and secondly seek the superior
02:38:31.040 wherever and under whatever name it is to be found, that we must at once go out of the
02:38:37.220 way of all badness and mediocrity without fighting it, and that even doubt as to excellence
02:38:43.620 of the thing, such as quickly arises in one of practiced hate, should rank as an argument against
02:38:50.140 it, and a reason for completely avoiding it. We must not shrink from the danger of occasionally
02:38:55.440 making a mistake and confounding the less successful good with the bad and imperfect.
02:39:00.640 Only he who can do nothing better should attack the world's evils, as a soldier of culture,
02:39:06.980 emphasis added. For those who should support culture and spread its teachings,
02:39:11.800 ruin themselves as they go about armed and by precaution night watches and bad dreams turn
02:39:17.660 the peace of their domestic and artistic life into sinister unrest so did you get that dear
02:39:24.940 reader he just attacked all of you for being like culture warriors and uh for participating into in
02:39:31.780 the culture wars as opposed to like creating like arts and uh and objects and doing great deeds of
02:39:40.240 your own you're sitting here uh critiquing uh various cultural artifacts you know critiquing
02:39:50.940 uh as we're talking about this uh uh chris for nolan's odyssey abomination is about to come 0.87
02:39:59.220 and all why do you even know about that all the world is dead said on denouncing this uh 0.91
02:40:07.040 this bizarre like urpus full humiliation ritual with uh black helena shroy and uh and uh the 0.61
02:40:15.460 transgender formerly ellen page currently elliot played page playing achilles it's like uh 0.64
02:40:24.500 for all the time and effort that has been put into like criticizing and saying don't watch this
02:40:30.760 don't watch this we have to make sure this fails you know you can actually produce like a really
02:40:35.820 good like animated odyssey adaptation you know you know from the collective effort you know
02:40:42.800 you could have crowd force or like used ai to produce something cool yeah one of my teachers
02:40:50.620 my one of my great spiritual teachers says very simply once you get the message hang up the phone
02:40:57.040 it's like friends they are just propagandizing brainwashing demoralizing trying to degrade and
02:41:06.840 destroy and humiliate you that's all a movie is made to do today like we have gotten that message
02:41:13.220 since what every movie since 2010 20 like 2008 every movie for the last two decades has been 0.99
02:41:22.920 intent in every way shape and form on making you feel like shit and showing you that the worst and 0.94
02:41:29.880 ugliest people in our culture have the highest value like have you got the message yet like 0.99
02:41:35.280 hang up the phone it's just like you don't need to be involved with Hollywood you don't need to
02:41:40.980 be like like one of the best things Nietzsche says is where you cannot say yes just turn away
02:41:47.000 just look away because you become you become vulgar by even engaging with that kind of
02:41:55.420 vulgarity yes uh this is where like the real job of the critic isn't to like criticize like bad
02:42:03.220 popular things it's to like hunt down obscure good things that were like abandoned uh absolutely
02:42:10.600 absolutely dear reader if you want like a good adaptation of like the odyssey uh go watch the
02:42:18.280 beast of war the 1987 uh tank film about russian soldiers lost in afghanistan that is an you will
02:42:28.080 be spellbound by that that movie it's incredible and it has this wonderful 80s cheese because uh
02:42:35.180 because they chose to cast the Russians
02:42:38.520 as, like, Americans with American accents,
02:42:42.020 so it, like, weirdly predicts the American invasion of Afghanistan.
02:42:46.320 But you have, like, this Soviet tank crew
02:42:49.480 lost and being hunted by Mujahideen, 0.94
02:42:51.940 and they're all, like, doing... 0.98
02:42:54.600 It's like you're watching the cast of aliens in a tank.
02:42:59.620 You know, they're all going,
02:43:00.640 Game over, man, game over.
02:43:02.500 It's incredible.
02:43:03.360 uh yeah and and barring that like I think that's absolutely that's the honesty you should watch
02:43:10.660 and that's such a valuable function to like point those things out and bring what is good
02:43:16.040 to people's attention and like use whatever voice and platform you have to like say yes you know
02:43:21.320 that's one of the big binaries if there are any and Nietzsche's writing is the difference between
02:43:26.600 yes saying and no saying like and the more yes saying you can do the higher your type the freer
02:43:33.720 your spirit like the more elevated your soul so like find the things that you can say yes to say
02:43:39.720 yes to them lovingly heartily loudly like and then if you can't find those things make them
02:43:46.300 like make the movies that you wish even if you have to write like you can book you can write a
02:43:51.820 book like you don't even have to have a production facility to do that or like I you know there's AI
02:43:58.560 there's like so many ways and it doesn't have to be perfect it doesn't have to be something that
02:44:02.660 everybody wants to watch or that like even gets a lot of recognition because that's not what being
02:44:08.000 creative is really about right it's like about taking what you love and bringing it into form
02:44:13.660 exactly yeah I won't say what I'm thinking because there's one artist out there what
02:44:21.760 and they'll scream at me probably you can just make your dream project an ai web comic
02:44:26.920 which like you know artists will scream at you but like if you have a vision and you can't draw
02:44:34.320 and you can't recruit someone who draws you know you'd still make your vision a reality
02:44:39.140 yeah it's like it's baby steps it's like if you didn't inherit you didn't inherit the power that
02:44:46.640 Hollywood has okay fine like you have to start somewhere just do what you can start with what
02:44:51.640 you can and like that's that's a way better for your soul for the future of humanity for anything
02:44:58.680 good that you might care about like it's a way better investment of your time to create something
02:45:03.580 imperfect that comes from your love and to spend all of your time hating things that are ugly and
02:45:09.480 staring at them like they literally it's like that is the strategy of the the demons is to like
02:45:17.920 get in your face and make you stare at them and they suck your soul out of your eyes that way
02:45:24.440 it's science that I'm explaining to you right now they the demons the demons in the tv machine 0.92
02:45:32.380 and inside of your phone suck your soul out of your eyes when you look at ugly things
02:45:37.480 oh very much so but perhaps so continuing with Nietzsche but perhaps the falling passage sorry
02:45:46.880 simpson but perhaps the falling passage from the new year's resolution with which Nietzsche
02:45:51.420 entered upon the year 9th 1882 when he was 38 years old most fully reveals the entirely positive
02:45:58.740 direction in which his spirit willed to move and which he believed essential to the rearing of all
02:46:04.140 hire men. Quote, I also need to tell what I have wished for myself today, and what though first
02:46:11.860 crossed my mind this year, as though a thought which ought to be the basis and pledge and
02:46:17.400 sweetening of all my future life. I want more and more to perceive the necessary character
02:46:22.240 in things as the beautiful. I shall thus be one of those who beautify things. Amor fati,
02:46:28.960 let that henceforth be my love i do not want to wage war with the ugly i do not want to accuse i
02:46:35.440 do not want even to accuse the accusers walking aside let that be my sole negation and all in
02:46:42.480 all to sum up i wish to be at any time hereafter only a yaysayer end quote i may say of course
02:46:50.060 be pointed it may of course be pointed out and with complete justice that nicho was a long way
02:46:55.140 from holding to this resolution for the rest of his life nevertheless it is certain that the
02:47:00.920 resolution was not a pretty pretty but passing notion that he merely toyed with rather do we
02:47:06.720 hear touch the quick of his innermost being one of the most poignant issues of his entire life
02:47:12.800 behind this resolution was the persistent inextricable yearning of his soul one of those
02:47:19.880 unfinished fights where to the end of the tide of battle rolls now now forward now backwards
02:47:26.720 in his autobiography Nietzsche confesses that quote the loathing of mankind of the rabble was
02:47:33.800 always my greatest danger end quote it may come as a shock as utterly incongruous and possible
02:47:39.700 that any man of real nobility could feel such an emotion as loathing especially loathing towards
02:47:45.940 other human beings. But Walter Pater once said, quote, the way to perfection is through a series
02:47:52.060 of disgust, end quote. And must not he who strives towards the stars struggle long with the feeling
02:47:58.580 of a loathing for the swamp that denies him footing and constantly sucks him down? Is not
02:48:03.840 this very loathing an expression of his will to free himself from his past, to break its hold
02:48:08.320 upon him, and to rise above it? And Nietzsche did will to shake off his past and rise above it,
02:48:13.140 to free himself from the chrysalis and take to wings.
02:48:16.920 And he knew that this could not be accomplished
02:48:19.760 until his disgust at man's usual smallness and meanness
02:48:24.560 had been left behind.
02:48:27.180 As we have seen, his Zarathustra,
02:48:29.480 who was so largely the projection of Nietzsche's own soul,
02:48:33.200 is described as one in whose mouth no loathing lurked,
02:48:39.660 as the surmounter of the great disgust.
02:48:43.140 And if it be true that a man is revealed less by what he is than by what he would be,
02:48:49.080 then I beg you, listen to what follows and hear it unveil the pathos of Nietzsche's very soul.
02:48:55.700 All loathing did I once vow to renounce.
02:48:59.340 Then did ye, those whom he hath referred to as his enemies,
02:49:04.420 change my nigh ones and nearest ones into ulcerations.
02:49:08.440 Ah, whither did my noblest vow then flee?
02:49:11.160 end quote the chapter from which this is taken entitled the grave song one of the most moving
02:49:18.440 all of zarathustra and one of the most intimately revealing of nature should be read in its entirety
02:49:23.700 and again quote i however am a blesser and a yay sir if thou but fear around me now pure
02:49:32.420 thou luminous heavens thou bis of light into all bises do i then carry my benit beneficent yay
02:49:39.620 say a blester have i become in the yaysayer and therefore strove i long and was a striver that i
02:49:46.580 might one day give my hands free for blessing this however is my blessing to stand above everything
02:49:52.680 as its own heaven its round roof its azure bell and its eternal security and blesses he who thus
02:50:00.440 blesseth for all things are baptized at the font of eternity and beyond good and evil end quote
02:50:07.340 let the little critics have their point much of the time let us even say most of the time
02:50:14.180 Nietzsche did not hold to this resolution yet it is no less evidence that Jesus also
02:50:19.620 that Jesus also fell short of his abound ideals and violated his own teaching and indeed who has
02:50:26.800 not moreover I'm late lest the extenuating circumstances of which there were many poignant
02:50:33.700 in the experience of my own has forced me to recognize in the face of all theory and idealizing
02:50:38.160 that sometimes in order to make oneself quite clear, it seems necessary to say no as well as
02:50:44.560 yes. To declare not only what one's meaning is, but also what it is a denial, what is the denial
02:50:51.800 of it, and expose and attack its enemies. Often seems that before one can very well hold oneself
02:50:59.100 singly and severely to the positive and constructive and build it is necessary to raise the old and
02:51:06.040 clear the ground in order to get room for so much as one's foundation but in my judgment it is better
02:51:13.280 to attempt no defense let it be admitted that Nietzsche's work would have been even greater than
02:51:19.540 it was and more of it of enduring value if he could more steadily have lived up to his own ideal
02:51:26.100 firm salt and held to that new year's resolution or if it must be conceded that what he did had
02:51:32.920 to be done by somebody and that he fulfilled his task with magnificent restitute and strength
02:51:37.900 they let it be conceded also that he was but a moses who viewed the promised land from a mount
02:51:43.780 top but always from afar and never entered it nietzsche himself there's evidence of this
02:51:49.300 would have been very ready to admit as much he was but a way shore cry in the wilderness
02:51:54.800 a light in the night he was building the bridge to superman i was a wayfair on the bridge but yet
02:52:01.560 one that must at times falter and stumble superman he was not that he knew full well it was precisely
02:52:09.220 because his reach exceeded his grasp because he could see better than he could do and farther
02:52:16.280 than he could go that he created his zarathustra who thus became essentially the personification
02:52:22.040 of his vision and the voice of his innermost soul of his love his dream and his hope there had thus
02:52:28.700 far been no one out of our entire human past who in his eyes qualified as superman the superman was 0.94
02:52:35.700 yet to come not however as the jews has waited for their messiah but to be the object of the 0.96
02:52:41.200 concentrated search and struggle of the loftiest of human spirits and nietzsche better than any 0.81
02:52:46.600 other man that i've come upon to all the way there too and made it clear the stars to sear by
02:52:52.380 the pitfalls to be on the one scarred against this regime the regiment to be followed by
02:52:59.740 to acquire the requisite strength and any of us who may have been gifted with creative powers and
02:53:05.520 who feels the necessity to set his own feet in the direction of superman for mankind's sake as
02:53:11.620 much as for his own, will do well, instead of reproaching Nietzsche that he fell short of his
02:53:17.180 own ideals, to give close heed to his counsel. For it was the expression of a sensitiveness of
02:53:23.040 insight, a range of vision, and a depth and integrity of experience such as never before
02:53:28.140 perhaps in like combination been achieved. And one of the most precious parts of it all
02:53:33.480 is this advice to go out of the way of all evil, lest that within us which we meant to be and which
02:53:41.180 could become a swelling river sweeping on to give life and power wherever when to lose itself in the
02:53:47.100 desert sands a mere resistance with some such counsel as this which i have ventured to conjure
02:53:54.340 up before you would nietzsche have sketched the skeletal structure of the morality that he would
02:54:00.080 give to the small part of each oncoming generation who were to be reared to direct an ascending life
02:54:07.600 of a healthy society. Let me briefly review it. 1. Learn to hear the voice in which,
02:54:18.220 out of thy deepest stillness, thine innermost self would speak to thee. And when thou hast
02:54:23.020 heard it, believe it, in it, trust it. 2. Through discipline, bring all the
02:54:28.580 recalcitrant elements within thee to do the will of thine innermost self, until thou has become a
02:54:34.560 holy yea to life, a new beginning, a self-rolling wheel, a creating one. Three, and love thyself
02:54:41.440 with thine entire love and with all the reverence thou hast in thee. Four, love it and hold to it,
02:54:48.060 even when it commands thee to do what will give others pain, even when it may cause others injury.
02:54:54.020 Thy love cannot be true nor safe until it is above all that pity. Learn to be hard. Five,
02:55:00.600 obey thyself make sure that is thyself but then simply accept it do not try to change it or to
02:55:08.020 improve it but rest in it rest in what you are as men heretofore have been taught to rest in
02:55:14.940 the will of god put aside all considerations of advantage or disadvantage and likewise all claims
02:55:21.860 of right or wrong in those of reason six resist not evil go out of the way of all evil seek the
02:55:29.620 out circumstances in which thine innermost self can unfold in thy life in all its fullness without
02:55:34.960 having to struggle for breath in foul air or to meet the pressure of alien influences until at
02:55:40.900 last thou becometh what that are and thy holy yea to life is spoken with full voice and now seems to
02:55:46.900 be carved from one integral block which is hard sweet and fragrant it strikes me that any person
02:55:55.360 insight upon reading these words must often be reminded of the teaching of jesus for me this is
02:56:01.880 no surprise this is not surprising for i am inclined to think that where the two men's words
02:56:08.380 relate to the same field of experience that they may very largely agree unfortunately they are the
02:56:14.920 two most misunderstood great men of whom i know consequently it is in large part the falsification
02:56:20.960 of Jesus that clashes with the misunderstanding and extortion of Nietzsche. To my mind, Jesus was
02:56:27.660 as terrible as he was tender, and Nietzsche was not less tender than he was severe. Perhaps you
02:56:34.080 think that Jesus was more considerate of others than Nietzsche, but we must not forget Jesus'
02:56:38.900 injunction to regard family loyalties which seem to me the severest that have ever crossed the
02:56:44.720 lips of man. On the other hand, perhaps, I've never encountered consideration of the feelings
02:56:50.140 of other people quite so exquisite is Nietzsche showed when he enjoyed that we should avoid
02:56:54.700 abashing anyone. That is to avoid causing any personal humility, humiliation, or loss of
02:57:01.060 self-possession. Or do you think that Jesus was more concerned for the masses? I can only say,
02:57:07.340 I can only ask, where is your evidence? It seems to me he never slowed his pace for the week
02:57:12.840 or lowered his hurdles to make it easier for the sheep to enter his fold. He always went ahead as 0.80
02:57:18.760 far as he could and as fast as he headed in him let those come after him who were able and as for 0.70
02:57:25.220 those who had neither ears to hear no eye nor eyes to see that is those you could not bearford
02:57:31.140 did he not at one time compare them to swine and dogs and say of them again and again that they
02:57:38.220 were like trees that were good only to be cut down and burned apparently as far as his purpose
02:57:45.500 was concerned, there were only obstacles in the way. And if anyone still thinks that Jesus was
02:57:51.960 humble, I would ask him what evidence of it he can point to. I myself cannot recall one thing
02:57:58.260 Jesus ever said or did that I should call humble. William Blake understood him aright. It's shown
02:58:04.980 in a passage from one of his poems I quote in my last chapter. Having raised the question,
02:58:09.900 was jesus humble he declared that of course jesus followed that the course jesus followed was a
02:58:16.120 matter of humble to god haughty to man and he clenches the matter by making god pronounce
02:58:22.580 if thou humblest thys so humblest thou humblest me thou also dwells in eternity and in the stillest
02:58:31.500 hour that deeply moving chapter of the zarathustra nietzsche makes precisely the same point
02:58:38.240 nor is their combination nor in their combination of tenderness and hardness and their refusal to
02:58:45.380 adjust their pace to the pace of the crowd in the placing of their humility and indeed with
02:58:49.800 due allowance for difference in terms in a fundamental understanding of the inner life man
02:58:54.440 i think the two men may have been very much the same moreover both for mystics that nietzsche for
02:59:01.940 all he said again many kinds of mysticism said against many kinds of mysticism there's a century
02:59:09.740 was essentially a mystic himself seems to me beyond question there was recognized for instance
02:59:17.740 by my friend Ms. Emily S. Hamblin perhaps the first person in America to write on Nietzsche
02:59:23.400 and also Ananda K. Kumarswamy one of the outstanding interpreters out of the
02:59:30.540 of the east to the west
02:59:32.620 and a man with
02:59:34.020 wide knowledge of things mystical
02:59:36.600 in his The Dance of Siva
02:59:38.800 he declared that
02:59:40.240 Nietzsche was in the direct line of European
02:59:42.920 mysticism along with Blake
02:59:44.840 and Whitman
02:59:45.740 that's
02:59:48.220 that is a very
02:59:50.840 interesting trio to draw
02:59:52.400 yeah I don't care
02:59:54.140 I just want to state for the record
02:59:56.840 that I don't care what that guy says
02:59:58.500 whatever suni hooni whatever you just said yes who cares what he says this is one of the things
03:00:06.500 that is like almost impossible for us to like like understand now that like the this fell
03:00:16.320 bound way uh 20th century intellectuals look at indian intellectuals and i think it's just because
03:00:23.360 like the barrier to get out of India was so high that like like you'd encounter like five of them
03:00:31.180 we were getting the best and the brightest then yeah you're getting like the you know one in a
03:00:38.340 billion and so you encounter them and it's like yeah yeah that that's an impressive mystic because
03:00:45.340 he's the one that got out then you see these like Americans are like oh I need to go see the
03:00:50.460 spiritual land of india and it's like either they immediately like turned around or like they they
03:00:58.060 disappeared into layers of cope that like their illusion was immediately shattered it was just
03:01:03.360 like that one guy but uh i still don't care what he said no that is that is a good instinct
03:01:12.920 And indeed, uh, Simpson isn't really revisiting him
03:01:17.500 Indeed, Nietzsche's mysticism is more congenial to me
03:01:21.800 than we can deduce concerning that of Jesus
03:01:24.260 As my reader will recall, the collapse of my Franciscan venture
03:01:28.160 was followed by a period of disillusionment
03:01:30.880 I felt that I had been led into a dead end by my obedience
03:01:34.340 to that still, small voice within me, which I had called God
03:01:37.800 As a result, my faith in this kind of leading had been shaken
03:01:41.700 i found it necessary to look behind the scene i said to myself recollecting my past experience
03:01:47.480 something spoke within me that i called god what grounded i for calling it god
03:01:52.600 i came to believe that i had no ground and though in time i was able to believe again in the
03:01:58.500 validity of the mystical experience and once again undertook to devote myself to an obedience
03:02:03.820 to my still small voice as implicit and literal as before i thenceforward looked upon it from a
03:02:10.580 psychological point of view. What spoke in me at any given time was a synthesis of all
03:02:19.820 my highest perceptive faculties. It represented the highest wisdom in regard to the situation
03:02:26.740 that before me that was able to reach my consciousness at that stage of my development.
03:02:32.400 But I was no longer able to put behind it that omniscience, omnipotence, and the lake that most
03:02:38.980 people connect with the idea of God. Indeed, from that day to this, I have remained utterly
03:02:43.620 agnostic about all absolutes and ultimates. I know nothing about the moral order of the universe.
03:02:50.640 I admit that I do not. I have no means by which to explore the universe and to get beyond the
03:02:55.380 content of my own consciousness. I have come to feel that this belief in a metaphysical God,
03:03:00.200 that is, a common belief in God, has no solid foundation. If I find within myself a wisdom
03:03:05.500 and a strength by which I am able to walk without dependence upon these crotches 0.99
03:03:09.020 that I once found so necessary. 0.68
03:03:11.720 And likewise, Nietzsche, in referring to his mystical experience,
03:03:14.680 limits himself to what Professor Luba referred to as its raw stop
03:03:20.620 and says only that then was there spoken unto me without voices.
03:03:26.500 He holds himself close to what, if anything, he knows.
03:03:29.700 For me, this is solid ground.
03:03:31.380 Here I am at home with Nietzsche, as I am not with Jesus.
03:03:35.500 finally and by no means least jesus and nietzsche are alike and that both went to a kind of
03:03:42.840 crucifixion the suffering that nietzsche bore during the last 10 years of his thinking life
03:03:47.860 together with his final mental breakdown in some ways constitutes the crucifixion more terrible
03:03:52.720 than the more literal one of jesus in any case i find the price that both both paid the final
03:03:59.360 seal they put upon their conviction that the message they had delivered was true and at the
03:04:04.320 same time an evidence of the measure of their devotion to humankind i know well that man's
03:04:09.520 willingness to suffer proves nothing as the worth of his cause and yet i confess let it be written
03:04:14.920 down as my weakness if that is what it be that i am not moved moved to my debts until i have seen
03:04:23.660 a man lay down his all blake i believe died singing and therein i feel the triumph of his
03:04:28.780 spirit and yet i wonder if he would have had quite so much breath for singing if he had thrown
03:04:34.220 himself more abandoned into the thick of the fight. He had made himself more fully one with
03:04:40.260 the soul of struggling humanity. But Nietzsche wrote, As deeply as man looketh into life,
03:04:46.080 so deeply does he look into suffering. He cried to the potentially higher man,
03:04:52.640 whose ears he hoped to catch, Ye do not yet suffer enough for me, for ye suffer for yourselves,
03:04:59.620 ye have not yet suffered from men, ye would lie if ye spake otherwise. None of you suffereth from
03:05:07.200 what I have suffered. He foresaw all the pressure that could be and would be brought to bear upon
03:05:12.820 them to yield, but he called upon them that they should rather despair than submit.
03:05:19.080 And thoroughly I love you, because ye know not today how to live, ye higher men, for thus do ye
03:05:26.020 ye live best. He knew that higher men must always have it worse and harder. Thus only groweth man
03:05:33.060 aloft to the height where the lightning striketh and shattereth him. Like Jesus, Nietzsche knew
03:05:39.160 that he was a firstling and that a firstling is ever sacrifice. He felt long loneliness and the
03:05:46.540 burden of his task breaking him. But he went on. He saw the lightning poise over his head.
03:05:51.680 we went on until it struck all through his greatest book his there through sure one
03:05:57.340 runs the call to surrender oneself to one's highest love i love those who know not how to
03:06:03.600 live except as downgoers for they are the overgoers what matters about thyself speak
03:06:09.820 thy word and succumb loving and perishing these have rhymed from eternity ready must thou be to
03:06:17.420 burn thyself in thine own flame and i love him who seek it to create beyond himself
03:06:22.920 and thus succometh i love those who do not wish to reserve themselves the downgoing ones i do i
03:06:31.440 love with my entire love and i love him whose soul is lavish with who wanted no thanks and
03:06:38.980 doth not give back for he always bestowed and desired not to keep for himself and i love those
03:06:45.200 who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices
03:06:50.700 but sacrifice themselves to the earth that the earth of the superman may hereafter arrive
03:06:56.120 i love all were like heavy drops falling one one by one out of the dark cloud that low earth over
03:07:04.280 man they hurled the cometh coming of the lightning and succumbing succumb is herald the lightning
03:07:10.100 however, is the Superman. And it is men of this kind that I love too. To them go without my entire
03:07:18.540 love. To my heart I kneel before them in long silence, but above all before Nietzsche. Yes,
03:07:25.620 I came at last to the place where I had to put Nietzsche before Jesus, and I maintain in my last
03:07:30.940 chapter, Jesus lived too long ago. His force is now too largely lost in quivils over his words,
03:07:37.320 what they mean, whether he meant them literally, what he obviously said, whether he would say the
03:07:43.160 same thing if he were confronted by the world today. Moreover, his hard sayings, and it is
03:07:48.320 of them that we are in direct need, have so long been overgrown by an utterly false conception of
03:07:54.200 Jesus that they are almost completely ignored. Most people do not even know they exist. To be
03:07:59.820 sure, they are read, but that has only made it worse for their reading. Reading has usually been
03:08:06.120 a mumbling utterly devoid of any comprehension of what the words mean if only once in a while
03:08:13.980 the words would explode in the reader's face but they don't the droning has gone on long ago they
03:08:20.220 became little better than dead duds i doubt if anything can ever make them again the fire and
03:08:25.720 sword and light and lightning that they were when jesus spoke them but nietzsche's words are still
03:08:31.220 lie. They do not yet become buried or had their charge drawn. They cut, pierce, dig, blast, pry
03:08:37.960 open windows and doors, flood whole landscapes with light, paint rainbows, and dance on sunbeams.
03:08:44.140 No one can read them and forget them, or lightly set them aside. Moreover, his teachings are not
03:08:51.120 so fragmentary as that of Jesus. It is no mere handful of sayings. The same problem is approached
03:08:58.000 from many sides and again and again through 16 volumes.
03:09:01.780 The words pile up into arrows and ever-occurring road signs,
03:09:05.520 the directions of which no man with eyes in his head can mistake.
03:09:09.580 Moreover, the world in which Nietzsche set up his signposts
03:09:13.640 is a much larger one than which Jesus seems to have wrestled with.
03:09:17.980 Above all, it is our own world, a world of science, industrialism,
03:09:21.600 organized labor, cities, banks, democracy, socialism, nationalism,
03:09:25.260 the octopus state, mechanized warfare, a world of evolution and progress, of anthropology,
03:09:31.940 genetics, psychology, sociology, books, newspapers, and universities, all but radios, movies,
03:09:38.160 and television.
03:09:39.280 This is a world whose problems we must somehow solve or perish.
03:09:43.740 But for Jesus, this world did not even exist.
03:09:46.320 It had not come into being.
03:09:48.240 Indeed, so far as I can see, he did not concern himself even with the world.
03:09:53.900 That was all about him
03:09:56.120 Slavery, poverty, prostitution 1.00
03:09:57.980 A conquered Palestine 0.97
03:09:59.080 Caesar, war 0.98
03:10:00.660 There's no call to social reform
03:10:04.020 There's not a word about advancing the kingdom of God
03:10:06.720 Apparently he saw the world as a collection of individuals
03:10:10.100 And he confined himself to the inner light
03:10:12.200 Of individuals and their relation to one another
03:10:15.340 That the quality of life
03:10:18.080 In our individual men and women
03:10:20.020 Must determine the health of our society 0.90
03:10:21.920 As the health of an organ
03:10:23.400 Humanism must depend on the state of the cells that compose it.
03:10:27.540 I will at once concede, and at the same time, that it constitutes the very core of our problem,
03:10:33.700 but I have become convinced that this is by no means our whole problem.
03:10:37.520 It is possible for people so to ignore the differential birth rates and laws of genetics in general
03:10:43.880 that they breed out of existence the people of that capacity to think, to feel, and to inspire
03:10:49.420 who alone can make anything of the inner life man. 1.00
03:10:53.000 And of what conceivable use is any high teaching to a race of near morons? 0.98
03:10:58.360 Apparently, Jesus was so intent on his task with individuals and with the present, 0.99
03:11:03.700 they never precede this problem or reckon with the future.
03:11:06.960 Nietzsche, however, faced a whole range of modern problems with a completeness
03:11:10.620 and a rigor unmatched in my knowledge in any other man.
03:11:14.020 He not only gave an answer to the problem of the inner life of the superior individual,
03:11:18.540 the chief problem that Jesus undertook to face,
03:11:20.720 but he also pointed out with unmistakable clearness and moving earnestness what steps
03:11:26.140 must be taken to make the appearance of such a person both possible and more frequent indeed
03:11:32.040 he is at one point out of he at once pointed out how our vaunted modernism was but a steady
03:11:40.220 slipping into decadence and gave us a means by which the bed bedwhorping and debauching a man
03:11:47.660 might be arrested and hold people taken in hand disciplined broomed and set on its way to heights
03:11:54.420 of strength and beauty and majesty never before known and there we must leave him he he stakes his
03:12:02.560 all on his conviction that his teaching contained the way to life both for the individual and for
03:12:08.540 society what will come thereof it is yet too soon to say he believed that it would as he put it
03:12:15.260 break history in half, even as Jesus broken in half, that he was the second one in the point
03:12:21.940 of time, as to recognize that Jesus was the first. But whether his foresight was as clear
03:12:27.900 as his insight yet remains to be discovered. Sometimes I fear that mild-mindedness has too
03:12:33.800 largely possessed even the best of us. Even those who must do most of our thinking and leading,
03:12:40.620 We have become too smug, too comfortable, too soft and sentimental
03:12:44.140 to be equal to the stern measures that alone could arrest our dissent and yet save us.
03:12:51.160 Where shall we now find the necessary iron,
03:12:53.540 the honesty and the capacity both to suffer and to initiate measures that will bring suffering to others?
03:13:01.040 But more than any other man I know, Nietzsche has shown the way to light.
03:13:04.280 The chief question before us, do we have the will thereto?
03:13:10.040 and that is the chapter uh we did it yes i i really expected that to be three parts
03:13:18.540 but uh we just muscled through uh yeah we'll i want to interject about um nietzsche's mysticism
03:13:27.600 that i think he is a mystic and not all mystics are created equal he is a devotee and disciple
03:13:39.400 of the god Dionysus and I think that Dionysus is a god of mystery like you're initiated into
03:13:45.260 that mystery through intoxication you know and I think Nietzsche talks about that in so many
03:13:49.860 different ways like the feeling of being high the like the art and creativity itself is a it's it's
03:13:57.680 a type of intoxication so even creating values is like arises from this kind of intoxicated state
03:14:05.360 like this induction into the mysteries of Dionysus but I think there's all kinds of mysticism that is 0.83
03:14:12.140 low caste and he speaks against like the mysticism that would say that your soul is immortal so like
03:14:19.220 he thinks that Christianity kind of grew out of these earlier Greek mystic mystery religions
03:14:27.260 that taught people that their soul was immortal and he says that Christianity is fundamentally
03:14:32.880 the belief that your soul is like your personal ego is immortal and will live forever so he's not
03:14:39.460 that type of a mystic at all but you know they're like religions can also be ranked on a hierarchy
03:14:46.500 and the religion of Dionysus like the religion of saying yes to life and of the ascending life
03:14:54.840 and of the feeling of being high basically like on a lot of different things but most of all on
03:15:02.120 yourself is a mystical type of religion. And I do think that Nietzsche was a disciple of that
03:15:10.100 mysticism. And I do think that his Zarathustra was a prophet of that mysticism. And I also think
03:15:16.940 there's a future for religion like that. But it's not a religion of the masses. It's a religion for
03:15:23.760 the very few hmm very true have you read the Buckeye uh Euripides yeah yeah yeah the uh play
03:15:37.880 of die of Dionysus uh yeah that might be that may be a fun bonus rating at some
03:15:44.980 at some point for us I think it would be
03:15:48.920 be uh interesting for all listeners and it would be relatively quick but uh
03:15:56.120 but i will have if it's that no mysticism or mystics i've i've never quite understood
03:16:05.380 what the word mystic or mysticism even means like uh it seems that like the things included
03:16:13.160 within the category are like more discordant from each other than uh than the things that
03:16:20.220 outside the category while you just like it may seem to be a word used to describe like things that
03:16:28.220 uh are just weird essentially the category yeah i mean it's it's mystery like it's a mystery like
03:16:37.980 it's it's occult it's something hidden it's not something that is just known like you have to be
03:16:43.140 get like the you have to solve the mystery in a sense by being initiated through this series of
03:16:50.840 trials into a new quality of consciousness like and you know it's it's just like you can drink
03:16:59.240 you can be intoxicated like on spring Nietzsche says this spring is one of the strongest intoxicants
03:17:05.460 which is like this really pure and beautiful feeling of highness or you could be like some 1.00
03:17:10.980 homeless dude like shot up with heroin like half asleep under a bridge in a pile of your own shit 0.97
03:17:17.460 like there are different qualities of being intoxicated there are different qualities of 0.99
03:17:22.880 mysticism too so of course there's going to be like very vulgar ways of getting high that are
03:17:30.220 labeled as like mystery religions but there's also very like elevated wholesome clean beautiful ways
03:17:37.520 of being intoxicated and I think that that's what he associated with the Dionysian mysteries which
03:17:44.420 were like the mystery of tragedy the mystery of the fundamental tragedy of life that like
03:17:52.520 that what is beautiful and strong and best turned out is also the most endangered like it's the best
03:18:00.140 men that die the youngest and like don't leave issue it's the best men who get lost along the
03:18:06.820 way because they are separate from the herd and making their own path and it's very easy to lose
03:18:12.180 your way in that endeavor and like very many good men come to ruin because they they undertake that
03:18:18.960 quest you know and they go through that series of trials and the trials often best them and they
03:18:24.380 don't have like a helping hand to to guide them or to show them like they can't rely on these
03:18:31.480 pre-established values and they're the great attempters you know the great experimenters and
03:18:37.740 like so often those experiments explode and like kill them in the process so that's I think that's
03:18:44.380 what he loves about the Dionysian mysteries because of course all the tragic plays like
03:18:49.960 the one you mentioned from Euripides like those plays were all written as a sacrament to the god
03:18:56.800 Dionysus like that's how that tradition started in Greece is it evolved out of the sort of ritual
03:19:03.540 worship of the god Dionysus and these plays are meant like I think Sopoches being the best like
03:19:10.840 the exemplar of the beautiful tragedy but they're meant to show how in spite of everything like the
03:19:18.100 gods just bring these really beautiful men like Oedipus Rex for example to ruin over things that
03:19:25.440 like are not moral issues but just fate and that's the great tragedy of life you know like
03:19:34.000 life is not a morality play it's just it's just fate and fate often ruins the very best of men
03:19:42.460 before they have a chance to fully fluoresce like even alexander right is a really beautiful
03:19:48.760 example of that like he conquered the world what else might he have done but he died at 32
03:19:55.260 this is uh this is where the life of caesar augustus is insane because
03:20:05.780 he actually technically beat alexander uh like he he conquered the world even younger
03:20:13.980 and, like, measured up very tightly.
03:20:20.400 And then he went on to write, like, these epic poems.
03:20:27.040 His uncle Caesar had written an epic poem on Hercules, which is lost.
03:20:32.300 And Caesar Augustus wrote, like, several of these,
03:20:36.160 restructured all of Roman society,
03:20:38.700 wrote his autobiography,
03:20:42.260 wrote so much bloody stuff like there are so many things we know that caesar augustus wrote
03:20:47.640 and all that is lost to history tragic yes it's another biography you cannot
03:20:56.180 read and part of me wonders if he didn't say something that made he didn't say several things
03:21:03.540 that made all the like because he's the roman emperor who's most interacting with judea
03:21:11.160 like before tiberius uh actually i'm pretty sure augustus is on the throne when christ is
03:21:17.500 born and then tiberius is caesar when christ dies um so pardon me wonders if there isn't
03:21:26.140 like some some lost clue that changes everything about christianity that's buried in the uh
03:21:34.540 the autobiography of caesar augustus like a throwaway line line that he didn't even care
03:21:41.240 about that made them reach made them destroy the entire work i would almost guarantee you that
03:21:47.360 that's the case because it's perfectly in keeping with the tragic nature of reality which includes
03:21:52.540 that like the like nietzsche says in the section that simpson was quoting about nietzsche's
03:21:58.960 comments on darwinism he says in that same section the weak always prevail because they are
03:22:06.780 they are the more in number and they are the more clever and like that's also one of the fundamental 0.90
03:22:12.880 tragedies of life is that like rome is overthrown by the jews by christianity by like you read 0.99
03:22:21.260 earlier, like the veritable sewage of that society like overthrows it. And there's, yeah, 0.99
03:22:29.300 these beautiful secrets and these like wisdoms that are lost to history. And yet the most banal
03:22:36.560 and vulgar literature from the ancient world is in everybody's bed stand across all of America
03:22:45.280 and europe you speaking you know the new testament like that is the most vulgar literature to come
03:22:51.440 out of to ever be written in greek and like everybody's read it and yet we have things
03:22:57.440 written by someone so beautiful as augustus that we'll never get to see life is tragic
03:23:04.060 well according to like everyone who like read him and wrote about about him like uh
03:23:12.600 it's actually funny because he's a nagging moralist like uh he's exactly like uh a patriarchal
03:23:20.800 like school master because he's like living to his 70 and he keeps on expecting to die like any
03:23:26.820 year because it's like eternally sickly but then just keeps out living like he lives it he out
03:23:32.260 lives like five of his heirs like he's appointing like successors and stuff that because expecting
03:23:41.700 to die like 25 or he's tricking people into thinking he's going to die at 25 and uh and
03:23:50.480 he just keeps on outliving them and like like uh so like he's he's like writing about the need for
03:23:58.780 like more true-born roman babies that like the romans need to stop it with its contraceptive 0.98
03:24:04.560 bullshit and uh and have have kids and he'll like nag people and he like coming up with the rewards 0.97
03:24:11.840 and he actually he actually expands uh the best of virgins that uh okay if your daughter isn't 1.00
03:24:18.880 married off and like having kids tick tock i'm going to condemn her to be a virgin for life
03:24:23.280 oh like you know via lottery lottery he's trying like tick tock people tick tock yeah and uh like
03:24:33.060 apparently he was like absolutely moralizing about everything uh i recommend everyone uh watch
03:24:39.420 watch um uh i claudius the series or read the book by robert graves that like
03:24:48.420 really does capture the character of like elderly augustus they conquered the world at like
03:24:57.200 like in his 20s and what does he do with his old age now that he's conquered the world 0.97
03:25:02.420 nag i'm gonna nag people so hard like this world well which is the real dream 0.97
03:25:11.480 to lose when writing about nietzsche says like every man spends at least half of his life in 0.92
03:25:18.120 a decadent state like that is the other part of the great tragedy of life's that even 0.98
03:25:22.740 like the only way to not become the sickly old nag is to be achilles and die when you're 29 or 30 1.00
03:25:30.660 like otherwise everyone sort of it's because it's a function of health so as you 1.00
03:25:38.300 degrade and decay towards death you're necessarily becoming you're literally decadent like that's
03:25:45.520 what the word means right you're decaying and your morality grows out of your physical health
03:25:51.520 so if you are decadent in health you will be decadent in your morality as well or in your
03:25:57.060 behaviors but like imagine that being the ultimate chad being the guy you like conquer the world
03:26:04.740 earlier than alisander in spite of like being incredibly sickly to you the entire time you 0.63
03:26:11.340 know doing it handicapped with one hand arm behind your back what am i going to do now that i conquer 0.81
03:26:17.240 the world i'm going to be the biggest chad i can possibly be but isn't that the case like don't you
03:26:26.420 i mean i haven't been on the internet for a while but when i was on x like that is the
03:26:30.900 the ecology of the right wing you know like there are these young men who are fluorescing in their
03:26:37.320 youth and just like exuberant about their life and they have this kind of aggressive like devil
03:26:42.300 may care attitude that is very counter-culture it's very against what the right has or the
03:26:48.740 left rather has propagandized them into thinking and then you have these like old conservative
03:26:54.920 types who have like aged out of the sexual marketplace and are just spending their
03:26:59.860 senescence nagging the young men who are allegedly on their side politically
03:27:05.520 and uh wonderful stuff anyway i'm gonna stop recording dear listeners uh tune in tune in
03:27:16.020 next time for the next gilly simpson uh chapter five chapter five an added faculty of perception
03:27:24.140 We're going to be getting more mystical before we finally get around to Simpson shutting out and telling you everything about far-right American politics as of 1978 that somehow anticipates everything we're still discussing today.
03:27:41.520 uh are you are you appreciating that this is 1978 that like uh that that simpson has somehow
03:27:50.360 anticipated every discussion uh we nietzsche scholars the online right everyone was going
03:27:58.380 to be having for the next 50 years like yeah he just says the nietzsche says that right the
03:28:05.280 greatest events like take the long the sound of the greatest events take the longest to reach our
03:28:10.180 ears and like these these great events arrive on doves feet like it takes such a long time
03:28:16.560 for them to be recognized very much so anyway dear listeners out there they glorious
03:28:40.180 You feel that bass line moving through the soul, just like Ja did in the days of old.
03:28:48.400 In them old ancient times, Ja was the source, through him we got morality and force. 0.75
03:28:55.880 But then came the man, on top of the hill, the mustache man, he came here to kill. 0.98
03:29:02.980 Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, sick in the head 0.97
03:29:06.500 He announced to us all that Ja was dead 0.99
03:29:11.400 Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, sick in the head
03:29:18.820 Announced it to us all that Ja was dead 0.92
03:29:26.040 Morality was whatever you wanted it to be
03:29:31.680 Now we all ubermensch, now we all free
03:29:35.140 There are castles everywhere for those with lies to see 1.00
03:29:39.720 Now the village, them stupid, lost in the fray 1.00
03:29:45.480 The herd, them follow that Christianity 1.00
03:29:48.380 Slave morality, they worshiping the weak and gay 1.00
03:29:52.440 They must be ended if we are to one day 1.00
03:29:56.340 Man, they trap between the beast and the jaw
03:29:59.720 One day we'll go on ascend to the highest of them all
03:30:03.320 But getting in the way, Babylon has said
03:30:06.980 Nobody go on be strong, you all be weak instead 0.99
03:30:10.540 Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche, sick in the head 0.93
03:30:16.300 Announced it to us all that Jawa's dead 1.00
03:30:23.460 Morality was whatever you wanted it to be 1.00
03:30:29.180 Now we all ubermensch, now we all pray.
03:30:33.120 There are castles everywhere for those with eyes to see.
03:30:38.420 Yeah, eternally recurring round and around.
03:30:43.500 Round and round, I go round and round.
03:30:47.000 Never, never stopping, it never, never ends.
03:30:50.160 I do and I die and I do it all again. 1.00
03:30:54.220 Idols, they fall, they crumble in the dust. 1.00
03:30:57.460 False gods, they fade 0.99
03:30:59.260 No longer jaw, we trust
03:31:01.100 Nietzsche, them shout
03:31:02.900 Build your own way, me a Aryan 0.71
03:31:06.060 Boy, I'll live that life night and day 1.00
03:31:08.940 Self-overcome, climb up the hill
03:31:12.680 Bend the steel rod, test the iron will
03:31:16.260 Like the snake shed skin
03:31:18.080 We transform soul
03:31:19.960 Rise from the ashes and let your spirit grow
03:31:23.480 Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Nietzsche
03:31:25.480 Genius in the air 1.00
03:31:28.620 Announced it to us all that Jawa's day 1.00
03:31:35.360 Morality was whatever you wanted it to be 0.98
03:31:41.400 Now we all move a bench, now we are free
03:31:44.920 There are castles everywhere for those with eyes to see
03:31:49.820 There are castles everywhere for those with eyes to see
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