"On The Thousand and One Goals"

(14-07-24)

I won't pretend to understand the writings of Nietzsche, but that's why we think about things, and write about them despite not understanding them; to learn, yes? Yes indeed!

I recently read an interesting section from the first part of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". To be honest, I read it at random. Somehow, this random choice winded up leading me down an intriguing hole of thought.

Launching into the part that caught my attention, Zarathustra asserts:

"To honour father and mother, and from the root of the soul to do their will"—this table of surmounting hung another people over them, and became powerful and permanent thereby.

Looking at this quote, I see a phenomena that I think about a lot, which is the nature of social "rules", along with their contrasting shifting and stasis over time. I'm no anarchst, but to live in a world with none of these "rules"; I wonder what that would be like? After all, it's not as though we chose these rules, but rather that we choose to live under them, whether or not that choice is coerced.

That, or you may choose a hut in the woods. If so, more power to you.

To abruptly end, these are my thoughts for now. Maybe I'll flesh this out more in the future.