Only to the extent that history serves life will we serve it.
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4 comments:
Honestly, it should apply universally. If government doesn't serve life, we should not serve government. If the media doesn't serve life, we should not serve the media. If economics don't serve life, we should not serve economics. Et cetera.
The core notion is one of the classic Christian values that most so-called Christians either ignore or outright reject. "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." If something isn't making the world a better place... then why the hell are we doing it?
The answer, of course, is greed. It all always comes back to greed. The vice that will doom this species - that may have already doomed us without our realizing - is our habit of tolerating evil so long as it profits the men on top of society.
If Nietzsche writings don't serve life, why quote and spread them ? Nietzsche never helped to make the world a better place, on the contrary. His times, his writings, his thoughts, are among the darkest and most evil in History. He never served life.
I'm with Mario here. There is no compassion in Nietzsche.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Even an egotist and misanthrope like Nietzsche could occasionally arrive at correct insights. For example, for all his bluster about Übermenschen, he was horrified by the rise of antisemitism in what would become Germany. And for all his obsession with heroic individuals who tower over others, he seemed drawn to depictions of such idealized figures being utterly defeated - see Zarathustra, and the irony of his great monument being erased by time.
He was also distrusting of authority, nationalism, etc. He rejected Prussian militarism and served as a medic rather than a soldier, and even renounced his Prussian citizenship and remained stateless for the rest of his life.
I would compare him and his view very strongly to modern day libertarians. They're wrong about a great many things, and their overall philosophy repulses me, but there are aspects of their views that are admittedly quite insightful. Sometimes even weird Romanticists who mostly entertain absurd and grandiose ideas of the universe can stumble upon elements of truth and wisdom.
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