Sunday, October 21, 2007

Weary of Man

The current state of our country is one where the noble man in all his glory has turned into the great men of the past. We do not heed the warnings or the lessons so aptly displayed by monuments and lore that we've inherited from history. Instead we ignore these features as all of those former noble men would do and reveal ourselves as "evil". Through our swelled feeling of superiority and righteousness we stomp around the world with our delusion of entitlement and force the hand of the "bad' and uneducated man who does not have the might for such vicious fight. So we, as those great civilizations of yesterday, murder, rape, perform mass extinctions and genocide around all of our peripheries. Diluting reality as we become the "barbarians" the "vandals" who uphold the tragedies of the past through the actions of our present.
"But who would not find it a hundred times better to fear if he could at the same time be allowed to admire, rather than not fear and no longer be able to rid himself of the disgusting sight of the failures, the stunted, the emaciated, the poisoned? Is not that our fate?" (F. Nietzsche). But it is through our admiration that we forget to fear, and this wild beast spring out from within. His immense hatred proves only that we are the inferiors as we no longer epitomize domesticated man. How could we, when our intolerance leaves our hands drenched in the blood of those whom we felt the need to destroy? ”With our fear of mankind we also have lost our love for mankind, our reverence for mankind, our hopes for mankind, even our will to be mankind. A glimpse at man nowadays makes us tired—what is today’s nihilism, if it is not that? . . . We are weary of man.” (F.Nietzsche)

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