Nietzsche only makes sense if you already understand his conceptual hierarchy. It's not a hierarchy of power or logic or rational thinking. Rather, the structure he accedes to embrace roughly correlates with different component parts of the neurological structure.
For instance, when Nietzsche states in GAY SCIENCE that the last thing he'd like to see is the imposition of a system of universal justice, one should not imagine that he is hostile to the object of his sentence, the universal justice as such. That would be to give his views a meaning of hostility to fairness and consideration. Rather, his opposition is to the imposition of a middle brow human conception of "justice for all". One should oppose the rule by the majority who would impose their moral conceptions of the world on everybody else, even on those who wish to live differently from them.
Well, nowadays we do have that rule of law by the majority. Every single citizen is also a consumer, which means that he or she is also a policeman. They demand you comply with all their detailed their expectations when you had NO prior notion of what their detailed personal expectations would be like.
Welcome to the system of universal tyranny, which Nietzsche tried to warn us against. If you think like the majority and are fairly bumbling but compliant, the universal policemen might let you off the hook -- so long as you also show them your servility. They like that. People they can't understand, though, are the victims of their ire. As Nietzsche said, the underlying meaning of morality is that it forces servility and compliance to the needs of others. Just by thinking differently you can call forth the indignation of all too many who wish to be served more fully -- by someone they understand -- and catered to in all sorts of specific ways.
It's universal justice for the majority who enjoy their sense of being empowered to dominate. For the minority, for those whose thinking deviates from wanting merely to belong, this is a system tailored for capricious people. It's the tyranny of the mindset of majority who create avenues to wield their power in a petty moral sense.
For instance, when Nietzsche states in GAY SCIENCE that the last thing he'd like to see is the imposition of a system of universal justice, one should not imagine that he is hostile to the object of his sentence, the universal justice as such. That would be to give his views a meaning of hostility to fairness and consideration. Rather, his opposition is to the imposition of a middle brow human conception of "justice for all". One should oppose the rule by the majority who would impose their moral conceptions of the world on everybody else, even on those who wish to live differently from them.
Well, nowadays we do have that rule of law by the majority. Every single citizen is also a consumer, which means that he or she is also a policeman. They demand you comply with all their detailed their expectations when you had NO prior notion of what their detailed personal expectations would be like.
Welcome to the system of universal tyranny, which Nietzsche tried to warn us against. If you think like the majority and are fairly bumbling but compliant, the universal policemen might let you off the hook -- so long as you also show them your servility. They like that. People they can't understand, though, are the victims of their ire. As Nietzsche said, the underlying meaning of morality is that it forces servility and compliance to the needs of others. Just by thinking differently you can call forth the indignation of all too many who wish to be served more fully -- by someone they understand -- and catered to in all sorts of specific ways.
It's universal justice for the majority who enjoy their sense of being empowered to dominate. For the minority, for those whose thinking deviates from wanting merely to belong, this is a system tailored for capricious people. It's the tyranny of the mindset of majority who create avenues to wield their power in a petty moral sense.
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