And overall, the West should return to the roots of the Occident:
μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ...
‘Wrath, o goddess sing...’ —In the beginning of Western literature: Homer. —Do I look wrathful to you? —Be I thus accursed? —Be it so, I will reign in Hell...I admit: I am “evil”*! (← Timelord2067, please quote and archive, with your usual vague and ridiculous insinuation of having caught me saying something that I didn’t damn well mean. Thanks.)
* This admission is qualified below. But first, I have a public service announcement as part of my antiheroic campaign to beat up on idiots till they ignore-list me:
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You don’t yet have me on your ignore list? Sissy! I double-dare you! LOL.
—Unfortunately, this incitement is the only means that I have to protect my precious posts from the filthy eyes of ill-bred dolts who do not deserve to see them. I could also simply stop posting; but that would be a disservice to wiser minds, whom I should not deprive merely to avoid casting pearls before swine. Wherefore this social filter:
If you are not reading it, then it is not for you.
Too bad.
—ahem. I’ll just wait right here, whilst the unmitigated savages add me to their ignore lists. For they should not be allowed to read what I am about to write.Quote from: Nietzsche
Everyone being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.
PSA: If you dislike my posts, then please don’t read my writing! Thank you.
Ah, that’s better! Now that everyone is gone, I can get to my point.
THIS SPACE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT NULL.
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...you are either feared or hated.
Both: for I am “evil”.
With paragraph breaks added, and my annotations in bracketed red text:
Quote from: Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (Jenseits von Gut und Bose), #260.
Here is the seat of the origin of the famous antithesis “good” and “evil”:—power and dangerousness are assumed to reside in the evil, a certain dreadfulness, subtlety, and strength, which do not admit of being despised.
According to slave-morality, therefore, the “evil” man arouses fear; according to master-morality, it is precisely the “good” man who arouses fear and seeks to arouse it, while the bad man is regarded as the despicable being. [despicable = dishonest, lowlife scum: liars and cheaters, cowards and traitors, etc.]
The contrast attains its maximum when, in accordance with the logical consequences of slave-morality, a shade of depreciation—it may be slight and well-intentioned—at last attaches itself to the “good” man of this morality; because, according to the servile mode of thought, the good man must in any case be the safe man: he is good-natured, easily deceived, perhaps a little stupid, un bonhomme. Everywhere that slave-morality gains the ascendancy, language shows a tendency to approximate the significations of the words “good” and “stupid.”
According to slave-morality, therefore, the “evil” man arouses fear; according to master-morality, it is precisely the “good” man who arouses fear and seeks to arouse it, while the bad man is regarded as the despicable being. [despicable = dishonest, lowlife scum: liars and cheaters, cowards and traitors, etc.]
The contrast attains its maximum when, in accordance with the logical consequences of slave-morality, a shade of depreciation—it may be slight and well-intentioned—at last attaches itself to the “good” man of this morality; because, according to the servile mode of thought, the good man must in any case be the safe man: he is good-natured, easily deceived, perhaps a little stupid, un bonhomme. Everywhere that slave-morality gains the ascendancy, language shows a tendency to approximate the significations of the words “good” and “stupid.”
I am not safe.
Hunh. Username checks out.
[...] Fear nothing.I am untamed and untameable.
Quote from: Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, “The Improvers of Mankind”, 2.
To call the taming of an animal “improving” it, sounds to our ears almost like a joke. He who knows what goes on in menageries, doubts very much whether an animal is improved in such places. It is certainly weakened, it is made less dangerous, and by means of the depressing influence of fear, pain, wounds, and hunger, it is converted into a sick animal. And the same holds good of the tamed man whom the priest has “improved.”
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Wherefore in the perceptions of natural born slaves, I am evil!
Muahahaha!
Homer sang of epic evil!
The Homeric heroes inspired fear. In better times, they inspired fear and love. But if they lived today, would they be loved, or hated?
Achilles was the archetypal warrior. He slew his enemies without mercy. He forcibly seized Briseis as his war prize, after he killed a bunch of her familial relations (but he is said to have treated her well, for he loved her also). According to some of the legends about him, he once killed a man with a single punch for insulting him.
According to the servile mode of thought, Achilles was “evil”. By modern democratic standards, Achilles would be declared an “antihero”. Yet Achilles is the Western archetype of a hero—straight from the epic foundation of Western literature, the Iliad!
Of course, such a noble warrior as Achilles would never have done any low scum crimes; despicable acts would have been simply beneath him. His father was a king; and according to his myth, his mother was a minor goddess. He was a man of honour.
Uh-oh, the NSA found me.
Quote from: Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals, I.11.
The method of this man is quite contrary to that of the aristocratic man, who conceives the root idea “good” spontaneously and straight away, that is to say, out of himself, and from that material then creates for himself a concept of “bad”! This “bad” of aristocratic origin and that “evil” out of the cauldron of unsatisfied hatred—the former an imitation, an “extra,” an additional nuance; the latter, on the other hand, the original, the beginning, the essential act in the conception of a slave-morality...
...these men who in their relations with each other find so many new ways of manifesting consideration, self-control, delicacy, loyalty, pride, and friendship, these men are in reference to what is outside their circle (where the foreign element, a foreign country, begins), not much better than beasts of prey, which have been let loose. They enjoy there freedom from all social control, they feel that in the wilderness they can give vent with impunity to that tension which is produced by enclosure and imprisonment in the peace of society, they revert to the innocence of the beast-of-prey conscience, like jubilant monsters, who perhaps come from a ghostly bout of murder, arson, rape, and torture, with bravado and a moral equanimity, as though merely some wild student's prank had been played, perfectly convinced that the poets have now an ample theme to sing and celebrate.... ...all these aristocratic races... the Roman, Arabic, German, and Japanese nobility, the Homeric heroes, the Scandinavian Vikings... a consciousness of this very barbarianism, and even a pride in it, manifests itself even in their highest civilisation (for example, when Pericles says to his Athenians in that celebrated funeral oration, “Our audacity has forced a way over every land and sea, rearing everywhere imperishable memorials of itself for good and for evil”).
...these men who in their relations with each other find so many new ways of manifesting consideration, self-control, delicacy, loyalty, pride, and friendship, these men are in reference to what is outside their circle (where the foreign element, a foreign country, begins), not much better than beasts of prey, which have been let loose. They enjoy there freedom from all social control, they feel that in the wilderness they can give vent with impunity to that tension which is produced by enclosure and imprisonment in the peace of society, they revert to the innocence of the beast-of-prey conscience, like jubilant monsters, who perhaps come from a ghostly bout of murder, arson, rape, and torture, with bravado and a moral equanimity, as though merely some wild student's prank had been played, perfectly convinced that the poets have now an ample theme to sing and celebrate.... ...all these aristocratic races... the Roman, Arabic, German, and Japanese nobility, the Homeric heroes, the Scandinavian Vikings... a consciousness of this very barbarianism, and even a pride in it, manifests itself even in their highest civilisation (for example, when Pericles says to his Athenians in that celebrated funeral oration, “Our audacity has forced a way over every land and sea, rearing everywhere imperishable memorials of itself for good and for evil”).
Quote from: Nietzsche, The Antichrist, #2.
The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity. And one should help them to it.
What is more harmful than any vice?— Practical sympathy for the botched and the weak— Christianity...
What is more harmful than any vice?— Practical sympathy for the botched and the weak— Christianity...
“Antiheroic” enough for you insapient talking monkeys? ;-)
When you vote, just remember: Only I would run a political campaign by quoting the anti-democratic Nietzsche, and taunting the voters.