"Morality, insofar as it condemns for its own sake, and not out of regard for the concerns, considerations, and contrivances of life, is a specific error with which one ought to have no pity — an idiosyncrasy of degenerates which has caused immeasurable harm.
We others, we immoralists, have, conversely, made room in our hearts for every kind of understanding, comprehending, and approving. We do not easily negate; we make it a point of honor to be affirmers. More and more, our eyes have opened to that economy which needs and knows how to utilize everything that the holy witlessness of the priest, the diseased reason in the priest, rejects — that economy in the law of life which finds an advantage even in the disgusting species of the prigs, the priests, the virtuous. What advantage? But we ourselves, we immoralists, are the answer."
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
We bite off a bit much to chew in a single episode and attempt to at least make contact with most of Nietzsche's ideas of the myth of universal, objective morality and how they relate to Somalian pirates on the streets of NYC - most importantly taking them full circle to the previously discussed methods of social control and adding some of our own spin. This episode lays the foundation for our future discussion of power dynamics, which is the heart of the worldview we're presenting. Episodes 3 and 4 are highly recommended listening prior to this one.
Episode notes:
"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
Gorillas and throwing:
https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0626/Why-gorillas-can-t-throw-fastballs
More on the evolution of throwing:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1571064/
NYC's random violence problem:
Additional reading:
The Nietzsche Podcast's series on the book Beyond Good and Evil:
https://open.spotify.com/show/1OdzTf6CbBqPU0IGxYCL7T?si=acb3feb5e7c647e4
Recommended additional reading (we're going to stop linking Amazon pages because you all know how to search Amazon):
Genealogy of Morality - the precursor to Beyond Good and Evil. Nietzsche's detailed take on the origins and evolution of morality that go way beyond apes throwing rocks.
Beyond Good and Evil - the fully evolved and refined version of Genealogy that most importantly discusses post-morality humanity and how to move... beyond good and evil.
The Antichrist - a specific critique of Christian values and the damage they've done and are still doing to Western society.
