‘If people do like to create pain onto others, but with the degree of pain in the world and the evil we see…What happens when you frustrate this desire? What happens when you can’t enslave other people, you can’t kill other people and take their possessions? You can’t oppress other people because we will stop you. What Nietzsche says…is that when people are frustrated in their desire to cause pain to others, the consequence of that is they decide to start imposing pain on themselves. And this pain they impose on themselves is called ‘conscience’. Nietzsche says that people that can’t bite other people, they bite themselves. When they begin to torture themselves; they find the last possible outlet to impose pain on the world……People are predatory animals and when they can’t bite other people, they will bite themselves. When they torture themselves, they find the last possible outlet for this desire to impose pain on the world. They can’t do it to other people, they’ll do it to themselves.’….
31: 30 min – ‘(Nietzsche) describes his procedure as philosophising with a hammer…it very easily shades over to intellectual vandalism. It may be that everything that can be broken, ought not to be broken. And it is not entirely clear that the anti-Christ offers us more as a moral alternative than the Christian ethics. His willingness to ask questions about it is what makes Nietzsche enduring significance to our culture. For all the madness, for the all the evil that’s built into it, it’s probably the most significant moral development, since oh, I don’t know ‘The Enlightenment’. In terms of its artistic qualities, I think that Nietzsche is probably in the same league as Plato. As a a great poet – philosopher Nietzsche and Plato are the two greatest figures who combined art and philosophy’.
An interesting and enlightening commentary on the inherent cruelty that exists in humans, and how it became a significant aspect of Christianity. As a former Catholic turned Atheist, I’m both dismayed and horrified by the depths of cruelty and intolerance that exists within Catholicism and many religions.
I always love reading your interpretations. This is one of the best presentations I’ve seen about Nietzsche. Of course, the cruelty inherent in fanatical (understood) religions is apparent. That goes unsaid, but if you take that Judeo-Christian bedrock out from underneath society, then you can get what we saw in the Soviet Union, China (under Mao) and Latin America in recent times. The works of Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Carl Jung & Peterson are forewarnings and it’s happening again but this time on a global scale orchestrated by the United Nations (the WE grand reset) and Power elites. We are in deep guano friend.