Leo D.M.J. Aurini - March 08, 2013


What is the Nature of Good？


Episode Stats

Length

14 minutes

Words per Minute

113.331314

Word Count

1,624

Sentence Count

147

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

What does it mean to be a good man? How does it differ from being a bad one? What is the difference between good and bad? And what is the nature of the good man, the decent man, and the nice man?


Transcript

00:00:00.000 You still feel noble, and the others too feel your nobility, though they bear you a grudge and send you evil glances.
00:00:14.320 Know that the nobleman stands in everybody's way.
00:00:17.180 The nobleman stands in the way of the good too, and even if they call him one of the good, they thus want to do away with him.
00:00:24.640 The nobleman wants to create something new and a new virtue.
00:00:28.020 The good want the old, and that the old be preserved.
00:00:32.080 But this is not the danger of the nobleman, that he might become one of the good, but a churl, a mocker, a destroyer.
00:00:39.600 But by my love and hope I beseech you, do not throw away the hero in your soul.
00:00:45.500 Hold holy your highest hope.
00:00:49.580 Thus spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche.
00:00:53.160 The Kauffman Translation.
00:00:58.020 My last video discussed the nature of evil, that evil is simply a perversion of the good.
00:01:09.020 So it behooves me then to ask the question, what is the nature of good?
00:01:15.120 What is the good man, the decent man, the nice man?
00:01:29.540 Nice, from the Latin root nescius.
00:01:33.500 From the verb skire, to know, with nay put in front of it.
00:01:42.000 The know-nothing.
00:01:45.160 The fool.
00:01:47.000 And as happy and go-lucky as any fool might be, they inevitably fall into folly.
00:01:53.800 So this good man, this decent man, this nice man, what does he look like?
00:02:01.740 What does he do?
00:02:04.720 Well, perhaps he's listened well to all of the lectures on political correctness, on respect for others.
00:02:10.960 And so he minds his P's and Q's, and he behaves as is appropriate, respecting the differences of others,
00:02:18.940 while secretly within his own mind, holding the most childlike and insane prejudices against those groups that aren't specifically protected.
00:02:29.600 The foolish man.
00:02:33.220 Perhaps, perhaps he becomes a soldier, as he is told to do.
00:02:37.000 He goes to war to fight in the battle that he's been taught is the correct battle.
00:02:42.960 But he's never a warrior in his heart.
00:02:49.400 The good man.
00:02:51.380 Perhaps he's a man of enormous loins and bestial hungers.
00:02:55.320 If he is an evil man, he pursues those hungers in the wrong way.
00:03:01.040 If he is a good man, he sates his thirst in the way that's approved.
00:03:08.260 Or perhaps, not loins, but a great intellect on this one.
00:03:12.680 In that case, be he evil, he becomes a manipulator, a scam artist, a financier.
00:03:19.640 But if he is good, well, he becomes a technocrat, and he manipulates all the pieces on the chessboard,
00:03:28.100 never questioning whether technocracy is something right in the first place.
00:03:34.600 You see, the good man is a dog.
00:03:41.420 Goodness is what dogs are expected to perform.
00:03:46.200 He is not a wolf.
00:03:47.420 Dogs can be good, or dogs can be bad.
00:03:50.240 A wolf is another thing entirely.
00:03:52.480 And the good man shakes in terror and reacts with violence when he sees the wolf.
00:04:01.520 Obedience to the herd.
00:04:03.900 That is the good man's mantra.
00:04:05.780 You see, once upon a time, a long time ago, we actually understood what virtue was.
00:04:16.420 The Greeks and the Romans, they understood this.
00:04:20.180 They recognized that virtue was fundamentally a combination of two extremes.
00:04:26.520 That it was a middle ground between two things.
00:04:31.000 Between the lust of the loins and the rarefied thought of the mind.
00:04:37.000 In the center, in the chest, with the heart pumping blood, that is where virtue exists.
00:04:45.240 You see it throughout the Greek and Roman culture.
00:04:51.200 Their greatest tragedies weren't about this paltry form of evil that the twisted little good man exhibits.
00:04:58.740 Rather, they were about characters that were imbalanced, whose virtues weren't perfectly aligned,
00:05:06.100 and who destroyed themselves out of their love for life.
00:05:11.660 It's the Greeks that isolated the four virtues.
00:05:20.060 Justice.
00:05:21.460 The virtue of justice.
00:05:24.420 But, how can you have justice without a combination of the two?
00:05:31.440 You see, the loins know nothing but revenge.
00:05:35.460 And the mind has this rarefied, abstract acceptance of all.
00:05:41.200 Whenever you hear a liberal talking about how it was social circumstances that led to this behavior,
00:05:46.960 that is the mind's inability to understand justice.
00:05:51.100 Justice happens in the heart.
00:05:55.820 Temperance.
00:05:57.180 To consume with moderation.
00:05:59.080 To control your behavior.
00:06:02.760 But how can you control behavior without, first of all, a hunger, a thirst that needs to be sated,
00:06:10.420 and a mind that knows when to stop?
00:06:17.320 Courage.
00:06:19.160 Courage.
00:06:20.420 You need something to fight for.
00:06:22.740 Some principle.
00:06:24.200 Beyond just your mere survival.
00:06:26.340 If it was your mere survival, you'd be running from the battle.
00:06:31.000 Courage.
00:06:31.620 Again, this union of opposites in the mind.
00:06:35.440 This celebration of the totality of man.
00:06:39.580 That is what courage is.
00:06:42.860 And finally, prudence.
00:06:46.080 The Tao.
00:06:48.180 Walking with grace.
00:06:50.480 To have prudence is to understand that you are a man.
00:06:56.220 You are a creature of flesh and blood that came out of this earth.
00:07:02.200 But you can also hear the clarion call of the godly.
00:07:07.420 The mandate of heaven.
00:07:09.300 But the good man, the good man, he twists these virtues.
00:07:17.140 He twists and distorts them.
00:07:21.620 Instead of justice, we have peace.
00:07:25.800 Just peace.
00:07:27.180 Nothing to live or die for.
00:07:29.800 No judgment upon any.
00:07:32.140 Instead of temperance, we have abstinence.
00:07:39.620 We have the obese, degenerate, modern man that doesn't eat any animal fats.
00:07:46.520 That eats nothing but what they're told to.
00:07:49.460 That perfect little food pyramid that's killing them with heart attacks.
00:07:53.440 They do what they're told.
00:07:55.100 They don't think for themselves.
00:07:56.460 Instead of courage, instead of tackling opponents that need to be destroyed, we have forbearance.
00:08:17.240 The modern man is courageous because he goes and works at his soul-numbing job to support a family.
00:08:25.380 He is courageous that he takes the slings and arrows and doesn't respond to them.
00:08:32.160 That he contains all of his rage and is obedient.
00:08:37.120 Forbearance is the new courage.
00:08:40.440 Finally, prudence.
00:08:44.620 Prudence has become obedience.
00:08:48.140 Prudence is understanding the way.
00:08:50.220 It is understanding grace.
00:08:52.120 It is walking with the light.
00:08:54.120 The modern man, the nice man, the good man, he is obedient.
00:09:02.040 He does what he is told to do.
00:09:05.300 The good man is a beetle.
00:09:12.080 He walks upon a hard, cracked earth, never knowing what lies inside, with a neck too stiff to stare up at the heavens.
00:09:21.900 He has neither roots nor dreams.
00:09:24.780 The good man is a blood sucker.
00:09:29.200 The good man has loins and head, but he has no chest.
00:09:34.400 He has no heart.
00:09:35.620 Just as much as he doesn't know the earth, he doesn't know what blood is.
00:09:39.380 And if he spots somebody with a chest and a heart and blood pumping through them, violence is the result.
00:09:50.020 He attacks.
00:09:51.000 He needs to drain that blood.
00:09:53.660 They are zombies.
00:09:55.780 They are vampires with no souls and no blood and no home upon the earth.
00:10:03.720 The good man lives for death.
00:10:09.700 Everything the good man does is seeking after sleep and death.
00:10:15.100 The good man pretends to be a teenager his entire life, always seeking after the immediate benefit of a stimulus, of a little bit of joy.
00:10:32.080 Who seeks the self-elimination of the orgasms, putimar, and who might as well be on a heroin drip.
00:10:43.360 Terrified of death, they live their entire lives asleep.
00:10:47.600 There are those with consumption of the soul.
00:10:58.080 Hardly are they born when they begin to die and to long for doctrines of weariness and renunciation.
00:11:03.980 They would like to be dead, and we should welcome their wish.
00:11:07.160 Let us beware of waking the dead and disturbing these living coffins.
00:11:10.580 Because when you open up the coffin, when you disturb the good man from his slumber,
00:11:17.100 he attacks and calls you a villain and turns into that vampiric object monster.
00:11:27.440 I'd like to finish off this video with a poem that a guy that goes by the name of Categories Plus Sheaves was good enough to leave on my blog.
00:11:42.420 It's by Brecht, The Interrogation of the Good.
00:11:45.860 Step forward, we hear that you are a good man.
00:11:51.700 You cannot be bought, but the lightning which strikes the house also cannot be bought.
00:11:56.560 You hold to what you said, but what did you say?
00:12:00.180 You are honest, you say your opinion.
00:12:03.280 Which opinion?
00:12:04.840 You are brave.
00:12:06.800 Against whom?
00:12:08.520 You do not consider your personal advantages.
00:12:12.240 Whose advantages do you consider, then?
00:12:14.580 You are a good friend.
00:12:18.000 Are you also a good friend of the good people?
00:12:22.240 Hearest, then, we know you are our enemy.
00:12:25.160 This is why we shall now put you in front of a wall.
00:12:28.600 But in consideration of your merits and good qualities,
00:12:31.800 we shall put you in front of a good wall,
00:12:33.820 and shoot you with a good bullet from a good gun,
00:12:37.080 and bury you with a good shovel in the good earth.
00:12:44.580 I don't do these videos for the good.
00:12:50.540 I do them for the great.
00:12:55.800 For the noble.
00:12:57.500 For the righteous.
00:12:58.420 The good crawl about in the muck,
00:13:09.380 celebrating their muck,
00:13:11.040 with nothing but schadenfreude,
00:13:12.980 because the light of creation,
00:13:15.280 the light of love,
00:13:16.840 the heart and the chest that C.S. Lewis wrote about,
00:13:21.000 does not exist in them.
00:13:22.380 So they see the great,
00:13:24.920 and they attack.
00:13:26.160 They tear down.
00:13:27.360 Their own jealousy,
00:13:28.440 because they cannot create,
00:13:30.480 drives them to a visceral hatred
00:13:32.920 of anybody who can.
00:13:36.740 Every great thinker in history,
00:13:40.480 scientist, musician,
00:13:43.280 artist, writer, philosopher,
00:13:46.160 every single one of them
00:13:48.640 has written about this herd.
00:13:51.260 How the petty and the deformed
00:13:53.520 always attack their betters.
00:13:55.580 The petty and deformed,
00:13:56.620 who cannot even create their own society,
00:13:59.640 attack the very people that create it for them.
00:14:05.100 The evil are vile little monsters,
00:14:07.460 but they're fairly rare,
00:14:09.480 and quite easy to deal with.
00:14:11.680 Quite frankly,
00:14:13.040 it's the good that terrifies me.
00:14:16.160 Take care of yourselves,
00:14:17.560 you men of the West.
00:14:19.140 Irini out.