One morning this week, students
and staff discovered that several projectors and a printer had been stolen from
our otherwise trustworthy, and safe school. Many were shocked and wondered who
could have done this, but also wondered how they could have done this.
This got me to thinking about
Nietzsche's story of the lambs and hawks, and Noble and Slave mode. (put link
here) Granted this example of the stolen
projectors don’t go hand and hand perfectly, but bear with me because it does
show how only the “little people” think and ask questions like this.
While in class we discussed this
story and related it to everyday actions of a big businessman and the little
guy. The businessman uses his strengths (intelligence, cunning, tricky, people
person personality, and more) to swindle and trick the little guy out of his
hard earned money. He used his strengths as strengths. And while he sees
nothing wrong with this, the little guy is left asking how and why someone
could do this to them. In class we determined that only the little guy ask these questions.
Using this example, we could
compare it to Nietzsche’s Noble Mode, and Slave Mode of Valuation. The little
guy would fall under Slave Mode for this case because there is no doubt that
they view the businessman, his enemy, as evil, that the little guy is in fact
good, think that the businessman should not use his strengths as strengths in
this sense and views the businessman’s action as evil (evil comes to mind
first, then good).
The businessman would fall under
Noble Mode because they think their actions were good (Noble Mode people always
think of the good first, and evil as an afterthought), and that the little guy,
his enemy, is in fact, good.
I agree with this example. The business man certainly would use his strengths to make a sale and have no thought of how the customer felt about how the sale went, as long as the sale happened. The business man would fall under the noble mode of valuation.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this blog twice, I didn't really see how you tied the projector being stolen to businessman. Maybe you can elaborate a little bit more on how that ties together? I would like to see that, but I agree with everything else you said about the businessman showing his strengths and the little guy seeing this as evil. I wonder if the little guy could ever climb out of the Slave mode into the Noble mode and still consider it to be evil or if he would change his perspective since he is on the other side of the spectrum.
ReplyDeleteSorry to say, I agree with Cervando's comment. I dontbsee how you actually linked the stolen projector. The only thing I could've made the link to is us students being the little guys asking questions such as why we deserved to have the project or stolen from us, stunting our process to learn using PowerPoints, or active internet use. And the big businessmen being the "strong" theives who cleverly stole the projectors right under our noses. Hopefully I interpreted your post correctly.
ReplyDeleteYou did interpret it correctly, I was trying to use the stolen projectors as an example, just you worded it better. :)
DeleteI agree with the examples in this blog. Its almost a case of being selfish when it come to a business man and making a sale. Moat time a business man isn't worried about the good of the customer only what good would could come to himself for making the sale. Thieves are the same way, they don't care about the people they're stealing from or how they would feel when they found out their things were stolen they only care about what they want and what they plan to do with those things.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the businessman at sometimes can be selfish to make a sale, and so were the thieves.
ReplyDeleteI agree, the businessman at sometimes can be selfish to make a sale, and so were the thieves.
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