nenos 25/06/2023
Man is something to be surpassed.
Throughout the course of our lives, we’re coaxed into complacency about how we look at the world. The same roots aiming greatness and clarity, are also inclined to descend further into darkness and rotten aspects, or, in Nietzsche’s words: that’s why I spare their vanity, they’re medicine to my melancholy, their modesty is unmeasurable, they bound me to man with their entertainment. They are also fed from being watched, they believe in their own lies, but deep down, their heart sighs: What am I?
What is the monkey to a man? A laugh or a painful shame? We’re proud of cultures, it makes us feel distinguishable, we despise when judged as contemptuous at such heights. Pleasure in adventure and uncertainty is prehistorical, but, the construction of virtues by conquering fear with eagle’s eye (Zarathustra) was so far, an exception.
The worst enemy which can be found, will always be yourself. Tiredness and renounce doctrines are still the daunting chaos needed in order to flourish light, it’s the eternal return preventing us from knowing ourselves. Thus spoke Zarathustra, or better, Nietzsche’s main philosophy ideas embodied as the Übermensch: Are you the sovereign of senses? The master of virtues? I heard about obedience. He who doesn’t obey himself, obey others, becoming a way of life.
Instead of loving the fellow neighbors advisable from dogmas, love the most distant and think about what really matters at the end. Empires fall, relationships fades, and our lives keeps on acting at the great cosmic Theater. The masters of comedy and tragedy! Maybe Hamlet was right… “What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties! In form and moving, how express and admirable! In apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals!”
Link to my highlights: https://drive.google.com/file/d/16YhfFtyIZLJ9xDnNIPWcgYHUniak8zAi/view?usp=sharing