The Will to Power
Yes, I said it, Nietzsche was right!
The drive to control is an outgrowth of the will to power - the fundamental backbone of life - the drive to expand, to grow, consume. It is the Will to LIVE. Without it, the life withers away, or commits suicide (intentionally or not).
Why has nothing changed in the course of human history? Mostly because no one will admit that the above is true. Like alcoholism, first you have to admit you have a problem. Only then can you work on it.
When human animals admit that the drive to live outweighs everything else, drives everything, and that part of life is to kill/consume other life, then we can begin to be truly "human" - to see through the veil of words and organizations...to make decisions based on thought (which is human), that is, to drive, instead of to be decided by this drive, to be driven.
Then it becomes no mystery as to why the things that seem like they should be so good, can turn so bad - all the social paradigms we've created - society, religion, government, science...
Until this happens, the human animal will continue to be a herd animal. Trained to be obsessed with surfaces, while those whose drive and luck is more forceful pull the strings.
PS - If you don't know anything about Nietzsche or his thought, don't break bad on it. He was not a misogynist, Nazi, Communist, etc. Don't believe the propaganda your scaredy-cat advisers have fed you...they don't know anything about it either.
Go read Beyond Good and Evil. Then read The Antichrist. Then The Gay Science. Then Daybreak. Then read Beyond Good and Evil again. Then read The Will to Power. Try to get the Walter Kauffman translations - he has good footnotes that help to understand what's going on.
Yes, I said it, Nietzsche was right!
The drive to control is an outgrowth of the will to power - the fundamental backbone of life - the drive to expand, to grow, consume. It is the Will to LIVE. Without it, the life withers away, or commits suicide (intentionally or not).
Why has nothing changed in the course of human history? Mostly because no one will admit that the above is true. Like alcoholism, first you have to admit you have a problem. Only then can you work on it.
When human animals admit that the drive to live outweighs everything else, drives everything, and that part of life is to kill/consume other life, then we can begin to be truly "human" - to see through the veil of words and organizations...to make decisions based on thought (which is human), that is, to drive, instead of to be decided by this drive, to be driven.
Then it becomes no mystery as to why the things that seem like they should be so good, can turn so bad - all the social paradigms we've created - society, religion, government, science...
Until this happens, the human animal will continue to be a herd animal. Trained to be obsessed with surfaces, while those whose drive and luck is more forceful pull the strings.
PS - If you don't know anything about Nietzsche or his thought, don't break bad on it. He was not a misogynist, Nazi, Communist, etc. Don't believe the propaganda your scaredy-cat advisers have fed you...they don't know anything about it either.
Go read Beyond Good and Evil. Then read The Antichrist. Then The Gay Science. Then Daybreak. Then read Beyond Good and Evil again. Then read The Will to Power. Try to get the Walter Kauffman translations - he has good footnotes that help to understand what's going on.
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