Übermensch Explained & How to Use It - Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (The Overman)

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One of the most fascinating ideas in philosophy is the Übermensch. Translated as the “overman” or “superman,” it’s a concept created by the philosopher Frederich Nietzsche significantly a psychologically superior person of the future individuals of today should strive to become.
Although the Ubermensch is just briefly mentioned at the start of Nietzsche’s greatest work “Thus Spoke Zarathustra,” this idea of an exemplary human we ought to strive to become appears throughout his work and can be seen as a core pillar of Nietzsche’s philosophy.
This video will cover what one interpretation of what the overman is, how Nietzsche meant for you to apply this idea to your own life, and my thoughts on how relevant and essential the overman is today.
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0:00 Introduction
0:46 Initial Concept
1:37 Overcoming Nihilism
3:13 The Last Man
4:06 Nietzsche the Psychologist
4:40 Importance of Suffering & Envy
6:10 The Übermensch as a Tool
6:24 Becoming an Übermensch
7:07 Is it Still Important?

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@erik878 2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes the superman is in plain sight, and you hate him as his flesh and blood walks by, or you follow him like a star in the night

@gabrielbay9739 2 жыл бұрын

Life is not about being happy, life is about following our feelings and creating a story. Like in a movie, if the main character does everything right and he is always happy, then the movie is not catchy. Instead, like a good movie, we should let ourselves be lead by our feelings and our emotions, because that will take us to the life we truly want to live. We are truly alive not once we are happy, but once we feel the widest arrange of emotions, from fear, to sadness, to happiness, because like a good movie, feelings are what make us alive. That is what life is about "emotions" (hence: the difference between a robot machine and a human) Make your life about creating a story, finding the things you oppose to, fight them and create a heroic and winning adventure where you are at the top, dont be afraid of conflict, because accepting the conflicts, confronting them and end up winning is what life is about. Life is about a purpose, a story, about all emotions, and not just the seek of momentary presume , my deer fellows, that's what life is about.

@fun-with-purpose1436 Жыл бұрын

Deer is an animal, it’s Dear Fellows. If man follows his emotions, without reason or forethought, then he finds himself in Chaos. Keep in mind, the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

@cametofade Жыл бұрын

Watch season 3 of the sinner and you’ll see the great flaw in being led by feelings and emotions. It can be a dangerous slippery slope that slowly becomes you being your own god

@gabrielbay9739 Жыл бұрын

@@cametofade is it on netflix?

@cametofade Жыл бұрын

@@gabrielbay9739 it is indeed on Netflix.

@MrZZooh 3 жыл бұрын

I find it ironic that the Ubermensch and nihilism come from the same place. Nihilism is usually associated with giving up on all wordly goals while the Ubermensch is the exact opposite.

@johngoldsworthy7135 2 жыл бұрын

The tragic paradox ie Dionysus

@helgewirth9900 2 жыл бұрын

@Stratos I I guess Übermensch ist the absolute Opposit of Nihilism. He is the Nihilismkiller. You are Nihilist only if you are not able to be Ü.

@ADayInTime99 2 жыл бұрын

@Samuel Jackson Absolutely epic observation Samuel, my thoughts exactly, philosophy towards a solution won't provide the best solution, it will always be flawed, and within the constraints of one's perspective.

@pandem0nium862 2 жыл бұрын

The duality of man personified.

@torshops Жыл бұрын

well one is his example of good the other bad... not that strange

@redpillfitness1 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video, thank you. I'm obsessed with this concept of using the Ubermensche as my ideal toward excellence!

@justaguy2365 Жыл бұрын

Same!! Good luck!

@adamserrecchia3784 3 жыл бұрын

Good Stuff as always Ben✔️👾✅

@yooltorshul 3 жыл бұрын

More videosnof Nietzsche please thanks

@aljohnmadrilejos8914 Жыл бұрын

Hello! May I ask if the ubermensch is Nietzsche's philosophy of living authentically? Thank you

@jeffjgarrett269 2 жыл бұрын

I want more videos about Nietzsche and nihilism

@TwoDudesPhilosophy 4 ай бұрын

Hey there! I watched your video on the Ubermensch and found it intriguing. I've actually delved deeper into this concept in a video I recently created. I'd love to hear your thoughts and insights on my take as well.

@0318kent 9 ай бұрын

What is the picture at the beginning?

@mpaso111 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this video, really helped.

@geoffbuj1647 Жыл бұрын

What is the picture of that beautiful monster called?

@adarsh_3007 3 жыл бұрын

"Napoleon- 1799-1804" ?? Probably a typo

@ilyjax 2 жыл бұрын

No, Napoleon just lived in the Fastlane where time goes 10X faster.

@sethgaston8347 8 ай бұрын

No WAYYY!!! The Red Dragon!! I was just reading the Thomas Harris novel a couple of months ago. I felt like the main serial killer Dolerhide was a great example of someone who strove to be an Overman (he even has quotes about how he’s a higher man, and an embodiment of a Guess Star and Neutron Star), while also showing the side effect of being extremely competitive and dis functional . The protag is a great foil, as he’s constantly rejected and failing at exuding his masculinity. In the end the metaphor is finalized as Dolerhide disables the protag, and his wife slays Dolerhide instead of him. Great book, kinda gross though 😆

@EddieLovettClips 7 ай бұрын

Zarathustra is not 30 years old when he descends from the mountain. He was 30 when he went to live there and he lived in solitude for 10 years so he’s 40 when he comes down to bestow his wisdom to the people

@WakaWaka2468 Жыл бұрын

5:58 Why does it say 1799 to 1804 for Napoelon?

@justinedse8435 9 ай бұрын

Cause it's right

@Music_Creativity_Science 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, we are "overmen and women", but in another way. We are actually developing as a force in the star system, soon ready to break out (physically and mentally) from our imaginary prison. Modern philosophical anthropology is an incredibly interesting topic imo. In my COMMUNITY section: "The human evolution process, an essay with modern philosophical anthropology as a basis" I reflect on the modern human species and its relation to energy transformation and space exploration. My basic question is, should the modern human species still be called an animal, or is it now (soon) so different concerning its behaviour that it doesn't make sense anymore ? An animal has a brain mainly to control its body functions, a modern human is more and more developing towards a brain in focus which needs a body to survive, air and food. This brain is constructed to not accept total randomness and luck for surviving in the solar system, it can by transforming energy (then being able to deflect medium sized asteroids, survive in severe ice ages etc) and spreading out in the star system, willfully affect its own probability for survival. Then it has abandoned the main principle in the animal world, randomness and luck concerning survival in the long run. There can't, philosophically, be any greater difference than existing or not.

@Diamondraw4Real 2 жыл бұрын

We are no longer animals, if we ever were. God took out from the loins of Adam's progeny their descendents and they witnessed that they believe in Him.

@Music_Creativity_Science 2 жыл бұрын

@@Diamondraw4RealIt's ok to believe that ofc, that some entity created something out of nothing. From my point of view a supernatural being does not, and has not, existed. Instead, I find it more likely that a NATURAL thought structure formed in an EVOLUTIONARY way prior to the Big Bang, and willfully transformed (not created) its surrounding forms of energy and itself into a developing physical universe with its physical laws and constants. We can then ourselves now be seen as an extension (a new version of) the Transformer, and now ourselves transform matter into new forms of complementary intelligence (computers, robots etc). This view on, and explanation of, the development of the universe can be called evolutionary Pandeism (no supernatural entities involved, as in traditional theism, deism and pandeism). Both our views create a purpose/meaning with our existence, but my Transformer is (was) not perfect as your God is portrayed. And that is what I see around me, a fantastic universe, but not perfect (quite a lot of evil, quite a lot of suffering, a possible asteriod/comet which can kill all human life on earth, etc).

@captbron4985 2 жыл бұрын

I think I see more meaning to life, when there is no meaning. When there is no meaning, I can create any purpose I want. Instead of "the meaning of your life is such and such" Now the meaning of my Life is infinite. It opens Everything when you become the point of reference for everything. Let the Herd share their ways of measuring & judging. Which is delusional but as long as they leave you out of it. However, if they force you into their religions such as bowing down to the legal STATUES of a state which exists only on paper.... Similar to Spider-Man. If they do this know that you do not owe them anything including allegiance to their moral codes which like they're legal STATUES are based on Pure Fiction. Allow yourself to do what you need to to move forward because ultimately the only thing going on here is everything is power everything is energy. Keep it simple

@ubeerman 6 ай бұрын

Minor correction. Zarathustra was 30 when he went into the mountains, and stayed for 10 years before descending back again. This would make him 40 when he left the mountain.

@ianbuick8946 7 ай бұрын

Good to talk idealism and philosophy, everyone must go back to their life and face the challenge. Looks how Ubermensch you're when you have to take a slap to the face or be like Christ said "turn the other the cheek"? "A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit."

@DominumAnimum 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a casual Bible reader but even I understand that Christianity doesn't reject suffering and in fact advocates for it. It makes a clear distinction between worldly suffering and Righteous suffering. Righteous suffering is trial by fire by which we are refined and made pure, as fire is needed to purify gold. It is only through Righteous suffering can we be like Christ, who is our own Ubermensch - our ideal Man incarnate. Esoteric knowledge explains the dualistic nature of life in that we can see envy and admiration are polar opposites of the same pole and where envy breeds contempt and greed, admiration inspires and enlivens. Where envy is the nature of the lower, animalistic man and can only be beneficial to survival, admiration is the order of the Higher Man imbuing us with hope and vitality to ennobles us to seek a higher meaning. The simple fact is Christianity isn't paradoxical; the very nature of life is paradoxical. “We rise by kneeling; we conquer by surrendering; we gain by giving up."

@pascaldepester6976 11 ай бұрын

Other foreshadows of the Übermensch were Julius Caesar and Cesare Borgia. To me, some of the most beautiful descriptions Nietzsche gave of the Übermensch are: "Der römische Cäsar mit Christi Seele" and "Der Bogen mit der grossen Spannung".

@sethgaston8347 8 ай бұрын

“Cesare Borgia as Pope” If only…

@Diamondraw4Real 2 жыл бұрын

Did Nietzche really experience the valleys many others do? He's really good at writing about it, probably saw others who had suffered (and had studies in ppl like Napoleon). But would he see greater meaning in suffering if he had suffered more himself. Seems like it's easy for the larger part of humanity to go from thoughtfulness and anxiety about the meaning of life to not caring anymore. The more you have to grind to make a living, the more busy or the more caught up in materialism the less attuned to consciousness and less thoughtful you may become. Idkb

@elitebeing21 2 жыл бұрын

He had syphilies. He understood suffering. Read about his personap life.

@toby7442 2 жыл бұрын

He was in profound and deep suffering, throughout almost all of his life, and especially during the writing of Zarathustra and the twilight of his life.

@sethgaston8347 8 ай бұрын

His ailments were far beyond just his syphilis. His entire life he suffered from seizures and bloody coughing fits. He’d be bedridden for days at a time. He goes into very gruesome detail on his health in Ecce Homo. His streaks of pain were interrupted by a great bliss when he was healthy.

@adaptercrash Жыл бұрын

Something about sleeping for 20 minutes and he just knows everything it's a schedule or existence and spending time outside 12 hours a day but you don't get paid for it I use to for Year's

@havebadday7850 11 ай бұрын

The chad philosopher

@warrenstrife4818 Жыл бұрын

I was taught that the ubermensch and overman were antithetical concepts, yet I keep hearing people equating the two things

@brandon7024 Жыл бұрын

they're equated because the 'overman' is just one of the possible English translations of 'ubermensch.' 'uber' = 'above' or 'over' 'mensch' = man ubermensch = overman same concept, different language. you may want to have a word with whoever taught you they were antithetical 😂, try to sell them a bridge while you're at it.

@gabrielpadilla7839 Жыл бұрын

maybe the meaning of life i to create meaning?

@BOEHHO89 Ай бұрын

I would like to have Nietzsche and Ayn Rand to have a conversation .

@bell6257 Жыл бұрын

Bridges.

@bell6257 Жыл бұрын

Bridges for the future.

@bell6257 Жыл бұрын

Now I understand. Thanks kindly.

@globalnomad1221 2 жыл бұрын

we are called to be more, most are lost to the land man mentality and slave morality....he saw it all from 1880...

@scottfarrar3463 9 ай бұрын

I think this is a deeply flawed understanding of the ubermensch. The ubermensch is a result of understanding and living the "eternal recurrence of the same", not some tool to be used. One does not "do" trancendence but rather falls into a transcendant state having no other choice based on the understanding.

@igorszopinski1822 Жыл бұрын

Look closer at Zarathustra. What you say about researches saying living in the moment in addition to a higher purpose is what Nietzsche was also saying. He says “better things have I always done when I learned to enjoy myself more”. So your interpretation is not correct.

@xBurzurkurx 8 ай бұрын

Lol how does no one understand Zarathustra's story? Not even Nietzsche? There's an animated infographic of Zoroastrianism and I encourage everyone to go watch it. One day Zarathustra was washing himself and lamenting over how corrupt his society was and if this was all there was to this world when all of a sudden a being which can only be described as a bright spot of energy or light appears to Zarathustra, hovering above the waters he is having a wash in. It identifies itself as the Creator of all things and that all things created were good, but he has a rival that seeks to bring back Creation into chaos, disease, and everything bad. The Zoroastrians called the Creator Ahura Mazda and the evil one Angra Mainyu. Ahura Mazda (God) then tells Zoroaster to not lament though, because Ahura Mazda (God) will be sending a Saoshyant (Literally translated; Savior) for all mankind. Ahura Mazda explains some astrological signs that will occur at the time of the 'Great King's' birth. Thus Zoroastrianism becomes a religion, and lo and behold, they're really good at astronomy. At some point they start recognizing signs in the heavens that were according to the signs foretold by Ahura Mazda. 3 Magi's/Zoroastrians (they are the magi/mages of the real world, the word is derivative from the Zoroastrians) then set out and follow the path of the signs when they stumble upon a manger in the middle of nowhere with a woman giving birth to a child. They had brought gifts since this child would be a King, so as to honor and tribute him, because this child, according to Ahura Mazda is the Saoshyant.... Yes, the nativity scene. Y'all know how sin entered the world through Eve and Adam, with Adam being the first human created. You guys know the Hebrew for Adam? "Ha-adam" which literally translates to 'The Man'. Anyone named Adam today, your name simply means "Man". When you study the Bible you run into this concept called 'typologies'. Enoch is a type of Adam. And David is a type of Enoch and Adam. And Elijah is a type of David, Enoch, and Adam, meanwhile all of them being a type of Christ, just like there are many types of anti-christ's but only one Anti-Christ that will be on top, Jesus Christ is The Christ ontop of all types of Christs. The Bible mentions how the serpent and man will constantly attack each other until 'the snake crusher' is born which will be a promised child from the seed of the woman (Eve), which is why Jesus' genealogy is brought up again and again because the ancient Israelties knew that meant, that if that were true, this is the snake crusher and the Messiah. "What does it mean to overcome the man?" To be an Ubermensch? I suppose. The Bible calls it the believers inheriting the job and position as sons of the Most High because the current ones screwed up and created us a world of garbage and taught us to destroy ourselves more efficiently than we already could on our own. During Christ's 1000 year-reign the believers now will replace the role of not just earthly kingship, but of principalities and movements of governments like the highest elite, except we will have our glorified body's that will be "like the angels" and we will rule nations with iron rods. Couldn't make this shit up if anyone wanted to. Oh, Nietzsche... even the wise are blind.

@noxiousgamer8366 2 жыл бұрын

also have a look to the KHUDI of iqbal

@jasoncoomer1226 7 ай бұрын

The Ubermensch... *The creation from a physically weak man who lived through books about brave men that actually lived a heros life that he never dared to attempt* *The creation from a man who Simped after one woman his entire life after being brushed aside by her* *The creation of a man who would boast endlessly in front of others to cover for his insecurities as a man* The Ubermensch was but the idea of a perfect man through the eyes of a broken man. He was a genius but his ideas are tainted because they arrived through his own false view of what is and was of what a real man is.

@WakeRunSleep 8 ай бұрын

Ironically, the idealism of the Ubermensch is very religious

@kalel6757 Жыл бұрын

"The herd"

@ivanzamudio5333 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like the mustache crippled forgot the great Spanish conquistadors real me. That risk it all and workout fear of the unknown.

@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish Ай бұрын

Sadly the last man is growing larger n is gaining momentum

@adr1620 Жыл бұрын

🗿🗿

@r.s.dissendissen6752 Жыл бұрын

HAAAAAHAAAAAH!;. IS IT STRANGE ??! YUUUUU LIVE IN A DREAM!??

@josepherliz206 Жыл бұрын

nietsche revelled in his analysis of the childish religion of Christianity, a simple task that many already knew. However when he tried to move on his analysis of Buddhist thought, a place beyond his capabilities, he seemed to at best to have guesed at the meanings of Buddhist views, something that he was wholefully unable to understand, and worked his egotistical theory thereon. Truly a father of the self centred century that was to follow.

@haSHAH1 2 жыл бұрын

cos im N I E T Z S C H E

@bobolishis7 2 жыл бұрын

So our savior in ourselves is everyone's detriment? When two bleeping war lords were used as an example it is hard to see otherwise. I could hardly care if ornery overlord one wants to be a Uberlamelord. Uberdumb I just do me and watch for people who feed off it. Together we love. Be poly, be involved and not over anything. Life is just a gift, not special or otherwise, why waste time with meaning? There are people for you to see and for them to see you. An unlimited amount of these moments in one finite life time. Don't see yourself enlightened, be at peace.

@DinaricUbermensch Жыл бұрын

I am Ubermensch, Dinaric race 💪

@bsfoxo3329 Жыл бұрын

The only race that could call itself that is the so called aryan one.

@DinaricUbermensch Жыл бұрын

@Urueh Dinaric people are superhuman, many Balkan heroes belonged to that race, the Romans were of the Dinaric race and that was the greatest empire to ever exist. I fail to see how schopenhauer is correct, lets use black people as an example, black people are respected way less than Europeans in Europe, they look subhuman compared to white Europeans, even the women of their own race reject the blacks because they are ugly as hell. If you were to put a black person next to someone Ubermensch looking like Henry Cavill, the women would 100% choose Henry Cavill because he looks superior.

@antlures845 2 жыл бұрын

I find it odd how few point out that he failed to achieve what he pointed to.

@kallianpublico7517 3 жыл бұрын

The beginning of the presentation gives an impression akin to Evolution. The overman laughs at man like man laughs at the ape? But as we now know Evolution is based on genes, the "will" has no place in the "science" of biology. So what delusion did Nietszche espouse...Linnaeism? The theory that the will effects our bodies and therefore our offspring bodies? Certainly man's will has given us science, philosophy, religion, literature. Which would be the sign of Nietszche's Overman, a more intelligent being or a genetically enhanced being? He was born in a time ignorant of genetics, though it believed in something called eugenics. Who exactly would meet the criteria to be called an Overman? A politician, like Churchill or the "blonde beast" Donald Trump? A thinker like Nikola Tesla or Jennifer Doudna? Certainly not an athlete. What did Nietszche have in mind? I suspect he had in mind the copper haired giant in the short story "Twilight" , by John W. Campbell. What is there to overcome? Biology, social order, conventional thinking, space and time? Perhaps thought itself, or would that be Nietszche's ultimate "nihilism": the abyss that looks back.

@Diamondraw4Real 2 жыл бұрын

We have those things to overcome and arrogance

@kallianpublico7517 2 жыл бұрын

@@Diamondraw4Real Overcoming arrogance? That would not be on Nietszche's program, would it? It sounds too much like having a bad conscience. Guilt is for Nietszche's flawed conception of Christianity.

@intellectual421 2 жыл бұрын

Well there is no definition of overman my friend. The will you talk is a non human force which created biological matter like us. That process or that force which was not human created and caused evolution to happen but that thing that will is not human. It is a force of nature. Also nietzsche was not a eugenist. You are in a deep delusion to bellieve that

@kallianpublico7517 2 жыл бұрын

@@intellectual421 Is eugenics the holistic approach to genetics? Lamarck proposed an alternative to Darwinian Evolution. Sorry I wrote Linnaeus instead of Lamarck in my previous post, I meant Lamarck. Dog breeders and horse breeders have altered the appearance of dogs and horses for millenia. Their method involved breeding of different lines within a species. It didn't involve genes. Lamarck thought that acquired abilities could be passed down through sex, but not through careful selection of sexual partners (as animal breeders do), but I'm not sure. Lamarck's theory of evolution involved will instead of genes. The difference between Lamarck and eugenicists and dog breeders is that Lamarck emphasized the intrinsic will of the individual. Eugenicists and animal breeders impose "their" will on their subjects to achieve their results. Lamarckians, I think, rely solely on individual intention and improvement to reach a threshold of honing their own offspring's carried abilities. Where Nietszche falls in this debate about the overman comes where? Towards Lamarck I think. Instead of Darwinian Evolution with its geologic pace, Lamarckian self-improvement and its imposed teaching. I don't think Nietszche approved of eugenics - too sexually outre. Not that he was religious, just squeamish, nerdy, about sex: human sex. Though I could be wrong.

@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER 2 жыл бұрын

@@kallianpublico7517 That is simply due to your misunderstanding of what it means to be the ubermench. Arrogance is weakness. Weakness an ubermensch and those trying to reach that level, cannot have.

@prieststeve2153 Жыл бұрын

gay

@attri2292 19 күн бұрын

Zarathustra is not prophet he is a sage a saint not a prophet, get your head out of Abrahamic religion

@almilligan7317 3 ай бұрын

Jesus is the Ubermensch.

@attri2292 19 күн бұрын

You are an ape if you think that

@TheLegendaryMickey 2 жыл бұрын

you lost me when you started discussing the falsehood of religion everything else in the video was ok.

@sirprize5191 2 жыл бұрын

lol

@lpslancelot05 2 жыл бұрын

Falsehood of religion? They go hand in hand.

@sendmommyhelp Жыл бұрын

religion is false. or you're trying to say smth else?

@amalksuresh286 Жыл бұрын

"God is dead. Science killed it"

@davidwooderson5926 Жыл бұрын

When my youngest, my son joined the army, I felt like there was nothing else. I got divorced when my kids were very young. My ex cheated for years and I found out my daughter was not actually mine. I raised her as she were mine since she considered me her father. She didn’t deserve to be abandoned because her mom was a Ho. My kids started off living with her but after a couple years they were living with me. She was as bad a parent as she was a husband. Once they were gone my daughter living in Texas my son in the army and me at home in Philly. I am just waiting for the end. Hoping some days it will come sooner than later. I can’t even get back into my hobbies I had before my kids needed every waking moment, whether it was for school, sports or any of their other activities. The only thing that seems to occupy my mind is dying . I was raised Catholic and went to Catholic school for 12 yrs but lost my faith along the way. Enlightened I guess. Now what? Why am I so obsessed with the end? I’m 52 and ‘my mind thinks I’m 82 and there’s nothing else.

@jameswitt108 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your story sir. I'm in a dark place right now but I'll use your strength as an inspiration to keep pushing.

@lestergreen2828 Жыл бұрын

I feel you. I’m only 21 and I think about what I’m going to do the rest of my life a lot. My best suggestion would be to keep a good relationship with your kids and see if you can do anything for them. For me, being close with my mom (my dad passed away) and my siblings is the most important thing because no matter what I’m going through, they’re always in my life. I wish u the best of luck.

@HowlinWilf13 Жыл бұрын

Perhaps you need to make the change from camel to lion? Rather than thinking of your life as no longer having any purpose, work on seeing it as being free of former burdens and full of possibility. Allow your own identity to emerge, and give expression to yourself - change what sort of clothes you wear, find an interesting evening-class, try dating (or give up dating for a while), take up a hobby or develop an interest (and commit yourself to getting good at it), read a book you would never have imagined yourself reading (and then another one, and another one), go walking in nice landscapes (do the same walk in different seasons/weather conditions), paint your living room, get a dog (its amazing the people you meet through dog-walking in city parks!), grow a beard (or shave for the first time in 20 years), etc. You'll soon find out the things that you enjoy doing and that make you feel happier.

@trevywevy802 11 ай бұрын

Buy a boat

@sethgaston8347 8 ай бұрын

Don’t believe that certain things are only fit for young men. The way I live and what I strive for, are the same things you should strive for. Capturing love and fighting dragons. You know where beauty is, it’s inescapable in this day and age. And the dragon, is world governments. They will be your enemy so long as you strive for anything above average. Do what you know you must do. And do not fear death!