Friday 8 January 2010

Nietzsche versus compulsion

Nietzsche was forever fighting the attitude of compulsion in pervailing moral blind spots such as the compulsion not to lie, the compulsion to embrace an ideology and stick with it, the compulsion towards action (The Russian soldier), the compulsion to remain in marriage (compulsion to commit to "love") and so on. In all of this he was metaphorically "taming the spirits" of the R-complex mind, which is driven towards ritual and compulsion.
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