Nietzsche and Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The Last Man and The Superman

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In this video we look at the prologue of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, where Nietzsche puts forth his ideal of the Superman and counter-ideal of the Last Man.
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[@paarvatee]

Academy of Ideas thank you!

[@michaelellis4943]

Wow, I figured I would disagree with Nietzsche but this was such a load of garbage. The desire for power, pride and vengeance are not natural states for people. No human is born with those feelings. We want only one thing, to be happy. Somewhere during our lives some of us pick up the idea that happiness is attained through power. Some learn that happiness is linked to ones value, and that value is dependent on others acknowledging it, so they act to defend their pride. (Don't worry guys, human value is inalienable and irreducible) Some learn that a lack of happiness *must* be the result of another persons actions, and so seek to exact revenge for it. The most natural state of humanity can be seen in the behavior of young children, before they have had a chance to "learn" how people "should" act. Nietzsche is one in a long history of justifying and glorifying the most inhuman behaviors we develop. The strong have a right, even a responsibility, to abuse or control the weak. edit - To the presenter, none of my criticism is aimed at you. I thought you gave a very nice summation of the philosophy presented in the book.

[@TaunellE]

I have 2 very old hardback covered in cloth books. I don't know German. But I know these. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen Zarathustra. And a smaller one called Übermensch. They are both in full German. I would like to give them to Yall. As a Thank You.. if you want these I will gladly send them, as a Thank You. ♡

[@drakedrake4485]

AOI thanks for the vids. As a Dyslexic I learn way better this way. I am grateful Zarathustra.

[@matthewronson5218]

It's apparent that you have no true understanding of Christianity here, like something read out of a textbook but not well understood.

[@zsolt100]

"No tree, it is said, can reach heaven unless its roots spring from hell." - Jung

[@donaldmcronald8989]

Diomedes Yep. Jung owes a substantial portion of his philosophical work to my main man, Nietzsche.

[@mpcc2022]

@@donaldmcronald8989 For sure, Nietschze was a Psychoanalyst and an academic gnostic before there ever was Jung or Frued. Nietschze most certainly continued on where Emerson left off.

[@henkverhaeren3759]

Plato was ahead of them with his allegory of the cave

[@delinearevolver]

@@henkverhaeren3759 Hello mate, Nietchze specifically wanted to go pre plato. He was diametrically opposed to the cave analogy.

[@henkverhaeren3759]

@@delinearevolver Sure. Could be mate, but if Nietzsche had crawled out of his genius mental cave, straight into the light of consciousness, then perhaps his final years wouldn't have been so dark for him.

[@danpow851]

Prison of comfort, such a prevalent theme in this world.

[@mikitz]

The pursuit of happiness is the true prison.

[@MatPost]

The intoxicating joy, the joy that diverge our attention from the demise we have.

[@johnnybanana8562]

Glad I realized early on the constant pursuit of material things was pointless. Easier to see things as they really are and live a more peaceful life when you aren't chasing stuff.

[@caelan506]

whats wrong with comfort if your comfortable

[@azaleaslight7243]

@@caelan506 it imprisons you Keeps you in one space There's comfort in the Familiar So you stay in the Familiar Familiar poverty Familiar emotions Familiar family dynamics Familiar Thinking Familiar people Familiar Familiar Familiar keeps you stuck in one space Can't WONT ACCEPT anything or anyone outside of your Own Familiar Comfort zone This includes unfamiliar ideas Unfamiliar beliefs Unfamiliar people Unfamiliar beliefs ANYTHING outside your Familiar comfort zone just makes you too UNCOMFORTABLE so is rejected, put down, dismissed, judged, turned away, hated on, just so you can stay Comfortable, stay in your Familiar comfort zone you Can't accept change because it's takes you out of your Familiar comfort zone, so will do ANYTHING to prevent any changes occurring, you won't like accept anything anyone outside of your Own Familiar Comfort zone, Familiarity also Breeds Contempt for your own Familiarity Which breeds Hate, resentments , bitterness, emptiness within you which you then Express Project out into the world onto others, onto political types, onto organizations, onto neighbors ANYONE outside your own comfort zone of Beliefs Thoughts feelings deeds Everyone around you must conform to you and your comfort zone just so you can stay Comfortable You won't have or accept anyone or anything That's different because that causes you discomfort, & takes you out of your own carefully designed by you suits only you comfort zone ... Ask yourself this ... If being comfortable is so Good Why is it that we now live in the MOST COMFORTABLE SOCIETY that's ever existed but we are also the most fearful miserable depressed anxiety that's ever existed?

[@Mike-ci2pz]

Incorrectly translating Übermensch to being "Superman" doesn't do the idea justice. "Overman" is a more apt description, in English, because it points out the purpose of Übermensch, which is to overcome man's nature. This is very different from the idea of becoming a Superman.

[@GrubKiller436]

@James Morrison Superman is a comic book superhero already, so I think Overman is just right.

[@minisynthmaniac]

I was about to say that...because Zarathustra makes it clear: "Man is something that shall be overcome." Any man. even a superman, would still be "human, all too human". Thus "Overman" is the correct philosophical concept for that which shall come after the last man has blinked his eyes for the last time. "Der Mensch ist Etwas, das überwunden werden soll." (I have also carefully read the original German text.)

[@devilsdabs6663]

Higher man*

[@davodshah8869]

James Morrison you should watch the ubermensch video by Kyle kallgren bhh

[@tomi4m10]

@James Morrison Untermensch sounds even dumber :D

[@spencerallbritton9459]

I think the biggest mistake people make when they first start ingesting Nietzsche’s ideas is that they suddenly identify with the “higher man.” This I think is false and can in fact lead a person to miss a lot of what Nietzsche was trying to get across. Unless you’re one of those unbelievably few people who’re born with extraordinary talent, abilities, or genius, you and I are overwhelmingly likely to be of the herd, at least for right now. We must work hard at educating ourselves and mustering up the courage to pursue our own goals in life and accomplish great things. We are not yet the higher man but we may become him. That’s my view anyway.

[@Frankcohle]

I identify myself as the one zaratustra loves: the one who prepares the world to the arrival of the ubermensch, in his own way; do you judge me to be wrong in this statement, or in my will of living up to it?

[@apollyon4419]

I completely agree with you. Simply understanding the words of Nietzsche does not make you the "higher man". It just means that you have acquired a portion of his knowledge. But since only a minority of people in this world are enough open minded to take his words into consideration thus failing to understand them the person begins to feel special and that is what, in the end, blinds the person. In our pursuit of understanding, gaining wisdom, becoming what he called "higher man", we must constantly keep a certain level of humbleness.

[@julietkilo9716]

Nothing worth doing has ever been easy, dear friend.

[@TheOsamaBahama]

I think giving up on envy and replacing it with admiration and aspiration is the first step towards becoming the higher man.

[@alluneedisawill]

Indeed all we can do in this sense is to prepare the world for the arrival of ubermensch, even being a father to raise an uberman. He argues that we can't be uberman both because we are man and because we have to destroy the man in us and reborn as an uberman. All we can do is to walk on the bridge between animal and ubermensch to get closer to ubermensch. Even in love and marriage our goal has to be giving birth to ubermensch, not to reproduce our humanity. We need to die to reborn as an uberman. Nietzsche things that as long as all the old ways are in existence, there will be no ubermensch. Everything has to be destroyed so the better can be build, fixing and improving is another and a greater block in our way to ubermensch.

[@Veilzlol]

This is prophetic and actually came to pass. I actually verbally said, "What the hell." With Nietzsche's prediction of our societies move towards herd mentality ruled by its own oppression rather than physical rulers. Some of his worries about man's decline are so accurate I feel as if he wrote this book yesterday.

[@svilenangelov3374]

The internet and online culture are also heavily accelerating this process. It will be interesting to see what the future holds for humanity.

[@vezeris]

Svilen Angelov I was thinking this exact same thing dude. Eat well and exercise so you can see what happens on the next episode of "Humans" :)

[@marshall731]

It's amazing. Nietzsche not only foresaw where society would go, but he gave an answer for how to redeem it. And so the responsibility of his ideas falls to us.

[@noahowens6133]

The truth spoke through Nietzsche and now we have all the pieces of the puzzle, Search *_Truth Contest_* and read the top entry called "The Present". The truth as it relates to conscious life has been revealed and it will transform mankind and the world when enough people see it.

[@greasysteve4707]

don't read the truth contest. It offers nothing to you unless you're batshit full stop. It's written to be hypnotic and confusing, makes you feel vulnerable to ideologies that ultimately abuse you. Be careful out there kiddos

[@waterglas21]

Academy of Ideas, you are one of the best channels in youtube, great work keep going!!

[@noahowens6133]

Seeking the truth as it relates to conscious life? Search *_Truth Contest_* and read the top entry called "The Present". Nothing could be more important or more worthwhile.

[@waterglas21]

Truth and the Life yes, reading Nietzsche.

[@rohankotwani9603]

I see what you are trying to do with these videos. Keep it up!

[@demonview6075]

@Svetlana Rozetti u ok?

[@moodist1er]

Especially when he adds his political opinions in on top of terrible interpretations and freemasondicks start falling out of his mouth.

[@eclipse5393]

We live in an era when The Last Man thrives.

[@arkman2237]

godhead I don't believe we have come to that point but we're heading towards the Last man, we're truly living in a time of chaos

[@arkman2237]

Dimitri Vincheov also more like a "brave New world" on roids

[@zol.kirkegaard7338]

Indeed

[@womblesfan8939]

There are many Letzter Mensch, but they really thrive?

[@jeffc1753]

By its very definition, “The Last Man” cannot and will not thrive for long. The question is, how much of life as we know it will be sucked into its death spiral?

[@Achelebachele]

the last man did not "discover"(german: gefunden) happiness, he "created"(german: erfunden) happiness. he sees happiness and content where there is no actual happiness and content, like in a consumer society

[@plznostep98]

An even better translation of "erfunden" would be "invented", as happiness is not a reality but a concept, an idea people aim for

[@marcustulliuscicero9512]

Yes, more on thus spoke zarathustra would be amazing.

[@ishzsbxux]

@Lana JDL wtf

[@kayokk-]

Yes, more, more..specifically more on Zoro, please... thank you

[@scottkraft1062]

@Lana JDL he was the most brilliant person to put pen to paper andcit wasn't for money or fame but for mankind. Ive read four hundred years worth of philosophy and no one comes close to his brilliance. You should read his book beyond good and evil it's one of the easier ones.

[@guapocat203]

This is the most mind blowing series of concepts I’ve ever heard/contemplated. I can see how the wrong hands could twist it into something perverse that holds back mankind. In the right hands, I am humbled almost on a religious level as to what good it could do for mankind and future generations of all walks of life.

[@stark1ll]

I think the final quote is very fitting in this case "But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthword, downword, into the dark, the deep - into evil." Especially when thinking about the nazis and how they twisted his words in hopes of creating the "ubermensch"

[@notbot8830]

Well to build on these ideas, press on to Strauss. And then I suppose one is to put these ideas into practice and some sort of level.

[@nikolaybelorusov5522]

You must be a very educated man, for in order to create content like that you have to read and reread tons of philosophical material

[@kimnieuwenhuizen2584]

Nikolay Belorusov I believe he is in his late 20s - early 30s. I’m excited to think of the places he will go in time.

[@coreycox2345]

Listening and thinking, Analogous to Tower 7 : Ameaning

[@vfpfootball]

Really is good content. How could Nietzsche know all these things. Blows my mind, this is a great channel to learn.

[@sjuvanet]

Mudit Bhutani yeah, i'm pretty sure michael manages most of the video creation process, though. i dont even know his brother's name.

[@shannonsmith7201]

Correct readers are leaders.

[@Game7Mode]

Don't think you can change the world, just find the select few. Only enrich those capable of enrichment.

[@lisalph8922]

True. And don't preach but lead by example.

[@Getyourwishh]

That's what the buddha did

[@deisk2707]

He boosted the chosen one's talent, and the one's talent will change the world.

[@Wormwoodification]

Instantly goes and downloads all of Nietzsche's books.

[@kongtzi2704]

Be my guest😁😘

[@sunilrampuria7906]

Downloading/buying books would've been great if one could also buy the time to read them. -Schopenhauer

[@luisa.espinoza48]

U damn right

[@eclipse5393]

Pretending like you don't have time. You just aren't prioritizing self-improvement.

[@dantess2693]

Kindle is much more convenient than a book - doesn't take up storage space in your home.

[@TinyLoaf96]

THIS CHANNEL IS GOLD. Thank you so much for Your contribution!!

[@illwill2453]

Even my mistakes are greater than my enemy's - the very magnitude of my failings reveals the heights of my potential, my striven after and sought after- successes. Any man unwilling to show me his greatest fault is the man who cannot pass under in order that he may overcome, overcome man and become the Superman. Def: sublimate ref: Hegel.

[@chelseyk1252]

This was sooo good. Reminds me of Jung's concept of the shadow.

[@othyagocarvalho]

Nietzsche's work influenced Jung's...

[@The22Walli]

@@othyagocarvalho and deeply

[@rklein2367]

until you get electricuted like my city ihn yoyur homes and broken intoi slaves....radio cell towers are torturing us all

[@absoluteinfinity1197]

The key to life is to live like that old man. No expectations from society and living by yourself in full harmony and content.

[@rklein2367]

Just you and the state....slaves....no family.....just a race of slaves and gods....the few familiaes taking overe the world by tech breaking the peoples mind with psychological warefare....we are being electricuted in our homes by radio! this is the end if people dont resist

[@luckyleo88]

@@rklein2367 It seems now with the whole covid saga, people are getting over their heads with getting a vaccine shot. Like there's so many other things in this world that could literally kill you before covid does and people are treating the vaccine shot like some kind of holy grail that gives immortality....sad

[@The12thSeahorse]

But isn’t that the same as living as a monk in a monastery sitting on a beautiful high mountain?

[@blake_ridarion]

Love your choice of pictures and paintings. Although as a Finn I was laughing at the choice of the Symposium representing the Last Men! Those men are our country's great artists! The one on the right is Jean Sibelius! Haha I'm sure you know this and chose the painting for it's non contextual appearance. :)

[@theheretic65]

I can't really express to you how much I appreciate you making these videos. Thank you.

[@heilant777]

Excellent analysis and overview! Also, the artwork is chosen exceptionally well.

[@Jack-pm2pz]

I love your videos. Thank you for taking the time to create and post them for free on KZbin.

[@markm1565]

Even Nietzsche's rich poetical writing style alone serves to elevate the soul with its beauty. While not the easiest of thinkers to navigate, reading his work will expand one's consciousness and feed a soul hungry for sustenance of the spirit.

[@aalliaandreadis5109]

He's simple AF

[@LokiBeckonswow]

Please keep doing videos on Thus Spoke Zarathustra! this is helping me so much at the moment, your channel is incredibly helpful in my gaining context for different thinkers and overall history and human development! TY!!!! I also bought your two videos on Jung and The Shadow, also extremely illuminating, I'd love to buy from you some more videos on Zarathustra! :P

[@DigitalDuelist]

Just rewatched this because it popped up in my home feed. This video is not only still important, it's even more relevant given the events of the last 2 years. Cheers!

[@matthewweber1921]

"Happiness is the feeling that power increases, that a resistance is overcome, then the Superman will be the happiest man and, as such, the meaning and justification of existence" (Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra)

[@lucaa.6406]

Matthew Weber that is a really good quote

[@jackmabel6067]

""Happiness is the feeling that power increases, that a resistance is overcome, then the Superman will be the happiest man and, as such, the meaning and justification of existence." Well then, men like Stalin and Hitler must have been very happy dudes!

[@adamblack1]

Keep fighting the good fight! What you're doing is important and I thank you

[@Lucas-cb7sz]

Thank you.

[@thequantartist]

Amazing quality, I will definitely watch more of these!

[@lordvoldemort4242]

Thank you Academy of Ideas. These videos make me so introspective, sometimes I don’t know what to comment because so many ideas are coming at me.

[@c.galindo9639]

Man this is so great and amazing. Nietzsche really has a great philosophy in life through his work

[@RemyDAgostino]

You're a great storyteller. I love this format, with you mixing direct quotations and your own retelling of the story, and I think it works really well with your style of narration. I hope you do more like this one. Thanks again.

[@YoungPod]

Worth every time. Thanks for another great video.

[@jeffcriswell4410]

Fantastic video! Thank you for posting.

[@urakhistvanito]

Christmas is here again

[@terryfoster5316]

István Urbán I agree

[@noahowens6133]

Search *_Truth Contest_* and read the top entry called "The Present".

[@kyrlics6515]

Yup. 2 years later

[@darkwolfyash]

Absolutely loved the book and it put me into a spiritual journey of finding the self. And today, I look up and relate to Zarathustra and his quest as my own. The paths may be different, but the journey is the same..

[@BballkingR]

Best video to date, amazing content explained so simply to give us a shot of the potential awe within oneself. Will be listened to many times like your previous videos on self actualisation. Thank you so much for this delivery of such wisdom!

[@AgamottoOrg]

thank you for posting this!

[@limitless1692]

This is soo deep this is beyond my expectations ...

[@ayotrippin]

"I will teach you the Superman, so you can Superman dat oh. Now watch me YOUUU." - Zarathustra.

[@brianhalljr615]

Underrated comment

[@WEFslayer]

Wonderful stuff! Thank you for putting these videos out. 🙏🙏🙏

[@wadeguidry6675]

The use of the classic paintings as illustrations for these ideas is brilliant!

[@Schopenhauer667]

7:30 This sounds veeery familiar, like its happening right now familiar.

[@Bluudclaat]

Pretty much, shows that the pattern is cyclical/generational.. even personal

[@FloatingOrbProductions]

I appreciate your videos. Thank you.

[@joshmagee1]

Can't get enough of these videos man

[@TropicalRegicide]

So much makes sense to me now. Thank you for this. As always, this is beyond insightful!

[@malikgordon6919]

As soon as I'm finishing my errands I get back in....look at my notifications and see this. Joy to the world.

[@Hiiro576]

Wow Nietzsche predicted redditors

[@zacharyrombakis8852]

Thank you. Due to your excellent introduction, I have come to believe that another reading of Zarathustra might very well expand my horizons. Again, thank you.

[@bicyclist2]

Very interesting and thought provoking. Thank you.

[@rdalldmaster]

Man. That was Deep. Amazing work man

[@wwbenee]

Now you've gotten to about page 30 of 'Also sprach Zarathustra', what about the other 200? ;)

[@slka3272]

Amazing as always!

[@zarathustra8789]

Really good text and excellent choice of pictures. Stumbled upon your channel and subbed it immediately.

[@legosolgefilms]

"it means we're done, this is as good as it gets"

[@jonnykahle525]

The higher man does not desire the likes of the herd.

[@jonnykahle525]

but therefore desire his own likes. thubs up buddy ;)

[@ice451cs]

@@jonnykahle525 did you just reply to your own comment and then say thumbs up buddy? wtf

[@goromaster10]

@@ice451cs that was intentional

[@nathanverster3301]

@@goromaster10 that was smart

[@abhimanyusid]

Awesome work, thank you. Great videos to complement the book

[@deprogramr]

you're awesome! Thanks so much for all of your videos!

[@neothomas487]

This story is an amazing metaphor. Incredibly relative. Those that know, know.

[@bestversion8159]

bahahahahaha - I suppose you're on of those who knows

[@bestversion8159]

@@L3010 congratulations

[@hijiriamv]

So here I am as a "Half Last Man" and a "Half Wannabe Superman". Dancing on the first steppingstone toward the becoming of a superman. With every day the steppingstones getting further and further from eachother. Who knows what could I became if I had the goal to go further and further day by day. Nietzsche was one of the most awesome thinker in the history in my opinion.

[@taofik37]

I swear, your work is something amazing!

[@SamyBarnat]

Amazing videos a huge bravo ;) Please continue.

[@dylanscott567]

I love that I go into the video and I have to google 15 words to understand his material lol. Increases my vocabulary haha

[@zmudilago]

Third, and thankful for this channel.

[@raghavahooja695]

Thank you, Academy of Ideas.

[@doczenith5491]

Great upload thanks

[@jessekapito9911]

I have read the book and truthfully didn't comprehend a lot of it. I knew as soon as I started it that I would have to read it a few times. But this video, and others on KZbin help. Is there any more material you think would be helpful for me to understand it more deeply?

[@jacobv8447]

This video hit me at the appropriate time. And holy shit. Bravo. Beautifully done.

[@praisedownflav9728]

Binging on ur videos. Super interesting and quintessential

[@parneetalag5915]

Love you for this AOI

[@daniel2k22]

Although I've read multiple times all of Nietzsche's works (right now I'm delving into Also Sprach Zarathustra in German), I still find your summaries and mini-lectures extremely useful to review some of the details upon which I hadn't spent much thought. All of your videos are very well done and manage to explore a theme in a way which is both accurate and yet entertaining, easy to follow. I was wondering if you could make a video in which you directly confront various evolutionary theories (Lamarck, Darwin, Nietzsche) in an all encompassing way, that is, from a biological-organic, ontological and individual point of view. Thanks for all of your efforts, keep up the good work! Greetings from Italy

[@marcusaurelius-quinn5737]

Neitchze did not have an evolutionary theory... In fact he did not practice physical sciences

[@threethrushes]

Evolution through natural selection is simply a hypothesis to explain the diversity of biological life on earth. Do not read more into it than that. That said, it has endured for some 150 years and will probably become 'fact' some time before 2200 A.D.

[@justinfalzon6854]

Your content on Nietzsche is epic, bro.

[@skyweimar]

This is certainly one of the most important videos ever posted.

[@urakhistvanito]

I read also sprach zarathustra many times but this video is still interesting

[@luckyleo88]

Good man, I've read it once but found it hard to understand but after reading countless of reviews and videos about it, I will read it again and as many times as possible to have that knowledge ingrained into my brain.

[@redalt100]

"The higher they climb into the height and light, the more strongly their roots strive earthward, downward, into the dark, the depths-into evil." Is that Zarathustra giving up on humanity?

[@Lily-tr9pn]

Its a contradictory analogy...the roots bring food to the tree from dark depths of soil. The taller the tree,the greater its demand for food so deeper the roots. Roots and soil cannot be portrayed as evil.

[@roberttheiss6377]

Thank you for this!

[@michaelsalas721]

Beautiful!!! After listening to this I want to cry!

[@spacesheep69]

Nietzsche needed Beyond Good and Evil to explain Also sprach Zarathustra, and the Genealogy of Morals to explain Beyond Good & Evil You needed 10 minutes

[@zarathustra6796]

Some of those paintings were beautiful.

[@perc3557]

Thank you for the knowledge

[@bhagwan5385]

Man I really enjoy you videos, this Osho favourite book! I had tried reading it before but found it difficult, thanks for this creation

[@jocelynepesantez2915]

My favourite book and author ever. 💯

[@MaggotDiggo1]

A flying eagle with a snake wrapped around its neck.... best tattoo design ever!

[@appahoopjack2514]

In my best voice of Joey Diaz "Don't do it!"

[@alexviljam4891]

damn was thinking the same exact thing

[@transforgoku]

Tattooes are the favorite branding for the -sheep- herd/last man nowadays.

[@1beatman777]

I love your vids man 🙏

[@miumiuchoco]

I appreciate your effort so much to put these videos with great content and easy understanding out! So many people can benefit from it, learn, grow and become better human beings! Thanks so much! I love this channel and already watched so many of your videos :) keep up the good work

[@FlameWarStarter]

Damn. Zarathustra dropped the mic on this one 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@kayokk-]

hahaha. I love the thought of Zarathustra in his long robe dropping the mic. Hilarious :))

[@MaskedMetal01]

very powerful quotes from the book !!

[@frowy1]

Thank you, for helping me endure.

[@simonthom6885]

You gave me a new thought, thank you, you higher one.

[@johnchen7117]

Search for the image of Shiva, and you see him dancing with the serpent. More accurately, the serpent actually follows his dance. Similarly, the guardian god of many Hindu temple shows a serpent coil around the waist obediently. That's the human realm, kill no serpent, for serpent itself is our very own seed as well.

[@rudylabsilica2286]

We have become the generation of the “last men.”

[@OSTReturn]

Such a good video. I have to read again that book it has been a long time...

[@GalenTheWizard]

Thank you ItsAGundam for bringing me here :)

[@mashable8759]

We are living in the last times. Smartphones, social media binge watching Netflix sex crazy people who have devolved into The last man.

[@nicholasrandall3507]

And when it dies, it's body shall enrich the soil, and what grows from such rich soil will have deep roots and stretch to new heights. There can be no birth without death.

[@Bluudclaat]

Isn’t the revelation here that this has ALWAYS been so?

[@117Industries]

@@nicholasrandall3507 Philosophically profound maybe, and poetically expressed. But upon what economy do you build this great new civilisation my friend? There is no hard reset, no plan B. We reset now, socially and culturally, and defy the odds, being the first civilisation to ever achieve such a feat prior to its death, or we face total annihilation. The only legitimate path is to determine those foundations upon which great empires have risen and flourished, and then to establish them, between and against those corrupt structures amidst you. We have to evolve this time round, or else all will die. So, Randall, what is your schema of events, and what plan have you for the reconstitution of society? Upon what bedrock of values and social processes will you shape the next great civilisation to proceed us; under what rubric of morality, in which direction, and to what ends? And how might you establish this economically; and how might you incite the polity to follow; and how might you change the political paradigm of the modern world for the better; and what will be the constitution underwriting those governments which rise, and rule, on foreign pastures; and what roles will exist, fulfilled by which people, and how might you see that the square pegs distribute to the square holes; and what are those weaknesses endemic to our current world, such that it has declined so quickly, and how might you address them, such as to buy our successors greater longevity? Or are you just throwing out anarchistic noise because you haven't really thought this through?

[@nicholasrandall3507]

@@117Industries So, aside from the fact that the Greek and Roman cultures which collapsed before still provide the foundations for modern western government and philosphy? We'll know not to give women the vote. We knew that before, but perhaps now with modern evidence we won't forget as fast. The political paradigm won't change until enough men are suffering that they incite it. There is not yet enough pain. The values will be determined by the survivors. Trying to create a top-down system to force people into a way of life is exactly why society is falling apart. We're not going to "evolve" as a species. We don't face total extinction. We're going to face harsh environmental pressure, and MANY will die. Those that do not will control the future. That is how evolution works. There's 8 billion of us. We could lose 99% of the species and still be nowhere close to extinction. That you think it's all or nothing right now reveals your own hubris.

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@@nicholasrandall3507 They laid the foundations, yes, but how do you propose to integrate those foundations into a contemporary world which is socially, ecologically, and technologically distinct from the world that those Greeks and Romans inhabited? You might object that the reset negates this, by definition. I would counter-object that it doesn't. If you trace the rise and fall of vast civilisations, you will find that various continuities carry forward linearly, in parallel to the cyclic nature of cultural generativity and collapse. The factors behind this continuity, which threads multiple civilisations together in a narrative of continuous progress, and makes sense of some of our socially Darwinian intuitions, are those social, ecological, and technological aspects which are carried forward from one civilisation or empire to the next. Ecological forces play out over time, regardless of human input. But as every civilisation crumbles, another rises, and the gross consumption of human affairs remains on a relatively stable upwards trajectory. Technological means are traded with (and copied by) rising civilisations before the collapse of their predecessor, and as such, many (while not all) technological means are carried forward. Finally, human's social forms are at least partially defined by genetic information, and this information replicates mutationally, and yet only those mutations which survive natural selection and self-selection carry forward. Thus we see a continuous, stable evolution of human form across time. And thus our social forms and needs necessarily change to accommodate such evolution. Giving women the vote wasn't the issue. Allowing solipsistic, self-interested, deceitful narcissists to bully their way into the workforce and the throes of political and academic power was the problem. Voting parity is fine, and can be functionally stable. If you want to know how it is that we blundered this, I recommend 'Sex and Culture', by J.D. Unwin. This is very "Fight Club"-esque, in that it seems to identify male suffrage as the key to societal salvation. It isn't entirely wrong, but it's also vastly more nuanced and complex than that. The acceptance of suffering as a consequence of responsibility, and respecting the primacy of both responsibility and purpose as cornerstones of a functional society, is a much more lucid account of how to break out of male apathy. Any ideas on how you teach men to accept responsibility and how to define their own purpose, and how this might be done in a socially coherent and stable way? The adequate response is not top-down, but top-down, bottom-up, bilateral, internal, external, and transcendent, all at once. So in that regard, should I be interpreting your implication correctly, I think you're on to something. But it isn't precisely 'top-down' governance which is destabilising society. It is rather that parliaments are overrun by self-interested incompetents, and that bipartisan democracies have a limited shelf-life by virtue of their inherent instability. Bipartisan systems use division as their operating rule, and this bipartite division permeates throughout society over time, gradually renting it apart until it either fractures or reflexes elastically. What we are currently seeing in certain chambers of society is just such an elastic reflex. Not so much in parliament or the MSM however, both of whom are obsolete entities. KZbin will replace mainstream media, much to our collective benefit, and our bipartisan paradigms desperately call to be replaced by more stable alternatives, alternatives which are nothing like communism, Marxism, fascism, or socialism, but which have long been pontificated about, if relegated to the fancies of Sci-fi writers and contrarian political commentators. This is not quite how evolution works either. But that aside, if you think that a reset can happen, and that the victors will rise from the ashes as the Phoenix, then I urge you to enrol in a STEM course, preferably Physics or Climate Science, and read some heavy economic material. When you have, get in touch, and I can share with you some compelling literature on economic theory and climatology. But in short, we don't have the coal, oil or gas for a reset. And we have no other means of extracting fuel aside from nuclear fuel technologies (fusion and fission). Renewable energies might be a stepping-stone into lucrative clean energy (fusion), but they are too unstable and impotent to fuel an entire civilisation. And they take too long to return on their investment cost to be useful as a start-up to a rising civilisation. What I'm trying to tell you is that you don't have the energy to achieve your 'rising Phoenix' dream, whether you like it or not. And the fact that 80 million people is still a colossal number is not the relevant factor here. The relevant factor is that a rising civilisation requires a generative population which exponentially grows, and there simply aren't the fuel sources, nor the planetary conditions, required for such a reset. The globe is so close to thermal tipping-point, estimates project that it would take thousands of years for the Earth to return to a stable, healthy equilibrium, if you removed humans altogether. But that's not what you're talking about, is it? You're suggesting a civilisation will rise from the ashes of this one. Fine, but that burns fuel, necessarily, of which we haven't much remaining. And this fuel goes in to the atmosphere which heats it up, which we can't allow much more of lest we kick the planet into a thermal feedback-loop, destroying all life on Earth, ourselves included. And those technologies which might just save us from this catastrophic scenario are only accessible, discoverable, transmissible, transportable, and usable within a functioning, logistically complex, cellularly-connected, digitised, technologically advanced modern world. So no, 80 million people will not solve this problem, nor will any other arbitrarily small or large number. We have one shot, and one shot only. And it is to not f^ck this up, That's it. There is no plan B.

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Some misunderstand that reading Nietzsche can lead you into depression. But it is false. He is one of the greatest motivational authors ever. Marvel and DC comics robbed a lot of ideas from Nietzsche and Carl Jung while creating their heroes and villains.

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It's hard to rob a dead man, much less rob two men of ideas they wished to share. It seems more like their seeds have been sown amongst the last men, ironically enough. Life favors enantiodromia, all good things in time.

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@@InsanitysApex artists steal ideas formulated by other artists all the time. Infact there is a famous book called “Steal like an artist”. Maybe I should have used the word “steal” instead of the more coarse “robbed” & you would have understood the context in which I meant.

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@@hattorihanzo8385 You misunderstood which of us misunderstood. Or perhaps you knew that already. You "steal" people's trust and then tell them what they misunderstand. Have I understood you correctly? I'd hate to rob you of your art without giving credit where it's due...

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@@InsanitysApex ok have fun 👍

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@@hattorihanzo8385 I tried that, but lord knows you stole it all with your passive-aggressiveness. Reading Nietzsche may not be depressing but understanding you is starting to be...

[@richardjohnson5871]

This is the most helpful channel on KZbin. I just became an atheist and I was going through exactly what you described in the previous video on Zarathustra. I just downloaded the book and started to read it. Thank you very much !!. Here hailing you from Jamaica 🇯🇲

[@Kay-t-lynn]

Brother, THANK YOU. I finally found a story of a man with a mind I can relate too, wanting to be as all, in all, as one.

[@callummason6589]

I have a feeling we have been supermen before, so it is attainable. We need to do d our old archetypes and well worn paths.

[@luffydragneel5635]

Hey man can I ask what education did you pursue because you are very good in explaining the analysis behind Nietzsche's writings!

[@FelonyArson]

I bet it was self-education

[@marcusaurelius-quinn5737]

You just stick to your special education and let the thinkers worry about ideas

[@theunorthodoxscholar2203]

Thank you AOI! We are in state of the Last Man! This message needs to told and re-told over again! Keep up the good work!

[@edwardgaines6561]

9:23 Griffith from the manga _Berserk_ basically. Well played, Miura. 😔