tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post6680953561516534599..comments2024-02-23T13:15:42.158+13:00Comments on Dissecting Leftism: JRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00829082699850674281noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4138458.post-10150853744375004232012-08-27T22:36:46.282+12:002012-08-27T22:36:46.282+12:00Herd mind insight from an opinionated writer:
&qu...Herd mind insight from an opinionated writer:<br /><br />"Wilt thou be solitary, my brother? Wilt thou seek the way alone? Tarry yet a while and hearken unto thee. ‘He that seeketh may go astray. All solitude is sin,’ saith the herd. And long wast thou thyself of the herd. The voice of the herd yet lingereth within thee. And when thou woudst say, ‘I have no longer a common conscience with you’, it shall be grief and pain unto you. Lo, this pain was itself born of that common conscience. And the last flicker of that conscience shineth in thine affliction. But wilt thou tread the way of thine affliction, which is the way unto thyself? Show me, then, thy right and thy power so to do!" – Friedrich Nietzsche (“Thus Spake Zarathrusta” 1891)<br /><br />"All the sick and sickly instinctively strive after a herd organization as a means of shaking off their dull displeasure and feeling of weakness.... The strong are as naturally inclined to separate as the weak are to congregate; if the former unite together, it is only with the aim of an aggressive collective action and collective satisfaction of their will to power, and with much resistance from the individual conscience; the latter, on the contrary, enjoy precisely this coming together – their instinct is just as much satisfied by this as the instinct of the born “masters” (that is, the solitary, beast-of-pray species of man) is fundamentally irritated and disquieted by organization." – Frederich Nietzsche (“On the Geneology of Morals” 1887)<br /><br />-=NYC=-Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com