Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 12:32:29 +0200
From: Syphon Soul <haengen-AT-c2i.net>
Subject: Re: What to do?


"Chand B. Rangwani" wrote:

> We talk about what makes an overman, but clearly examples like Brutus and Pericles have
> a reference to a course of action that could be instrumental in society. What action
> can one take in a  world such as the one we live in, where glory and honour are now
> only for personal gratification, and one can only watch helplessly at the futility of
> individual influence? What to do? Be a Unabomber?
>
> Many of us are utterly cynical of the possibility of any good coming from the existing
> social structure. And alternative systems like communism  and benevolent dictatorships
> have gotten people out of the frying pan, into the fire. Nz would have hated democracy,
> a system where `skulls are counted, not brains.'
>
> If the sublimnal joy of becoming comes with internalisation an escape into art, it
> would be just that -  an escape, not the cavalry charge I feel towards life. I live in
> a city with 18 million people and its easy to lose sight of oneself, one's relevance.
>
> Is the only option to greatness, then, to carry a contradiction, many contradictions -
> to act with total intensity and accept the absurdity of wasted passion, howevermuch it
> hurts?
>
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  I would claim, that to put oneself highest, no matter the cost, is goal. To be a leader
of men, one which history can remember as greatness... I claim this to be permanentic, and
thus little more than decay. Oneself is all that is... no matter if one is negative,
primitive and limited. Without oneself, nothing would exist. For with oneself, does not the
world die? All that one has created of others, all conceptions of the world die, and thus,
the world as you know it, dies. The dicipline of greatness must also be mastered. One is
everything, therefore one should not make oneself lesser by menial actions like hate,
depravity and apathy. By doing so, one no longer is overmanning.

  Also, one should grasp infinity, in a manner I am not yet sure I can explain...

  The above, I fear, may seem like a set of rules... they are not... It's just how I manage
to overman...

  I started this discussion to stake out the thoughts on this subject posessed by the
readers of this list... possibly the Nietzschean "elite" of the Internet... to see if there
is a point in my ever ongoing writing. To see if there is ever a point to me attempting to
read, and make myself understood...

  To see if my infantile mind has the power to mayhap once achieve the status of...
philosopher.



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