The Iggblog

I started reading “Thus spoke Zarathustra.” Its one of his more celebrated works, ext to “will to power.” I just wanted to have some Nietzsche under my philosophical belt. I started reading it with a little doubt. Usually the most talked about thinkers have a lot of bunk to cut through. His stiff is a little abstract in this book, but there is a lot of good in there. Specifically, I read a passage on good and evil that was very similar to modern ideas:

“No people could live without first esteeming; but if they want to preserve themselves, then they must not esteem as their neighbor esteems. Much that was good to one people was scorn and infamy to another; thus I found it. Much I found called evil here, and decked out with purple honors there. Never did one neighbor understand the other: ever was his soul amazed at the neighbor’s delusion and wickedness.
A tablet of the good hangs over every people. Behold, it is the tablet of their overcomings; behold it is the voice of their will to power.
Praiseworthy is whatever seems difficult to people; whatever seems indispensable and difficult is called good; and whatever liverates even out of the deepest need, the rarest, the most difficult – tht is called holy.
Whatever makes them shine, to the awe and envy of their neighbors, that is to them the high, the first, the measure, the meaning of all things.”

That’s exactly the same principle as “The Lucifer Principle” explains it. There have been a lot of really astute and out there observations. MY opinion of the guy is changing. He’s still a little whacko in some areas, but theres a lot of good knowledge to be gleamed.

-IggDawg