ashdod_mogger
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Several hidden illnesses struck humanity at roughly the same time, among them humility, compassion, and pity. The ascetic, the beggar, and the wretched were suddenly elevated to the rank of saints and divine beings. Anger and pride are now presented as sins punishable by death. The god Thor, terror of the giants, and Hercules, slayer of the Hydra, have fallen from greatness, and in their place stands the poor son of a carpenter from Nazareth, who died a lowly death on the cross.
This transformation runs counter to every driving force in life. It is a “will to nothingness,” and it denies our very life impulse, which underlies all of nature: the will to power. Once we have turned strength and bravery into sin, we are now forced to turn the will to power inward. Since we are not allowed to dominate, our will consumes itself in the form of “guilt” and “conscience.”
Humanity “tears [and] persecutes” itself, “gnaws, abuses, and harms” itself, because we repress everything that is human. We resemble a wild wolf, bound and muzzled, “rubbing its body against the bars of its cage until it bleeds.” In Nietzsche’s view, this illness is fatal.
We must return to affirm all the primal aspects of life. We must restore nobility and power. We must live again with boldness and without shame. This is the will to power.
This transformation runs counter to every driving force in life. It is a “will to nothingness,” and it denies our very life impulse, which underlies all of nature: the will to power. Once we have turned strength and bravery into sin, we are now forced to turn the will to power inward. Since we are not allowed to dominate, our will consumes itself in the form of “guilt” and “conscience.”
Humanity “tears [and] persecutes” itself, “gnaws, abuses, and harms” itself, because we repress everything that is human. We resemble a wild wolf, bound and muzzled, “rubbing its body against the bars of its cage until it bleeds.” In Nietzsche’s view, this illness is fatal.
We must return to affirm all the primal aspects of life. We must restore nobility and power. We must live again with boldness and without shame. This is the will to power.