nenos 25/06/2023
“Being in full nature is enjoyable because it’s free of judgment and opinions”
Take a moment to look beyond the Vitruvian Man. Human beings are very far away from being the measure of all things, it’s not hard to feel the grooves and sinuosity of our true nature from a not-so-distant past flourish inside our brain from time to time. So, to speak, Nietzsche opens up Pandora’s box to infer about gifts from early primitive states. Beforehand, we have uncanny thoughts, misconceptions, convictions, vanity, ego, the repugnant presumption, oneiric hallucinations, beliefs and illusions.
Predisposition to be illogical and unfair seems like the unsolvable disharmony of existence. Take a closer look in ancient history. Few hundred years ago, we knew nothing about the laws of nature, there was no notion about causality, there was no natural occurrence, and every unexplained aspect was attributed to divine forces. To this day, as a collective we have no objective, from time totime we contemplate misfit creatures shifting the nostalgia and equilibrium, reducing their own life towards an objective, taking us to higher stages with the sweet scent of knowledge.
I despise the term “a product of his time”. As Nietzsche says: do not mistake the tree of life with the tree of knowledge. Mustn’t not forget fruitions from Renaissance like the beauty of discipline, self-mastery, adequacy to an end, common interests through interaction, legislate your opinions, the triumph of education, the flame of veracity and aversion to appearance. To be coerced by morality, becomes a habit, later on, free obedience and finally almost instinct.
Then, natural habits become tied to pleasure, that’s the meaning of so-called virtues. Crude as it is, a ghost formed by our passions, an honest name to do whatever we want without
consequences.
Link to my highlights: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NrFLUV8lufaLY7rclM1qxgcKPOjhAImI/view?usp=sharing