The summary of the class this week is that
WE ARE ALL WEAK. We follow the rules, we do as we are told, we behave, well most of us. I never thought about it as being a slave, but the more you think about it the more you see why you are indeed a slave. We don't go against the "Man," we know not to fight the "Power" and why? Because my momma told me not to. We are good kids, good slaves. The more and more I think about it, it makes me mad. The history books told me that we had abolished slavery, but apparently that was a lie.
The nobel and strong is our government and most of us are the well trained slaves that follow every command because we don't want to get in trouble.
I am not strong, and sad enough, I will continue to be weak, a slave if you must. I will hide behind the laws and rules that protect me because without them I might not be here.
Nietzsche, this goes out to you!
I kind of got the feeling that Nietzche was not against the creation of morals; rather, he was cautious of the complacence and the blind obedience to authority that formed along with morals. Quite frankly, Rome tried to create a perfect human emperor with only the strong and beautiful and do you know what that got them? Caligula. Also known as the emperor who waged war against Poseidon and ordered his army to stab the ocean.
ReplyDeleteWe never saw our selves as being weak. So when we studied Nietzsche and saw his take on how we got morals, we were opened up to a new perspective. I feel that we don't want to accept the fact that we all are weak and a slave to our weakness because of course no one wants to be known as being weak. We have always been taught to stay weak but we never called it that. Some calls it "being the bigger person" which is really just being weak. We have been taught to be weak all our lives so we really don't know what being strong really is.
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