ALTERNATIVE OUTLIERS

I have been (trying) to read Nietzsche for a a while. I knew about Beyond Good and Evil, but I started with his first book; Human, all too human. It is hard to understand, at least to me.

I came across Jonathan Bi's great books lectures where he breaks down the greatest books and their philosophy in 90 minutes and listened to his breakdown of The Genealogy of Morality by Nietzsche. The critique Nietzsche makes in this book about Christianity, slave and master psychology and how today's morality has been internalised has really played with my mind.

https://www.johnathanbi.com/p/nietzsches-guide-to-greatness-the

Nietzsche says that there are two types of people. Slaves and masters. Since slaves cannot be masters because they do not have the hunger, the drive and they are simply made to be the herd, they elevate morally their own lives with arguments such as chastity and poverty being morally good and the accumulation of goods, being ruthless in life and business and being extremely focused on your own goals to be morally wrong.

He basically means that a small portion of the population have bigger aspirations and they learn to give away their true nature in order to fit into these created correctness by people who are just different. Another of his examples is on Buddha. "all life is suffering". You might not agree with that statement—as Jonathan says, you might be "sane" and not have this nihilistic view of life. But if your "will" is to match your life and mindset to Buddha, you will end up changing your nature to match his.

If you feel you are made for more and that society tries to box you in and put you down, do not give up your nature. You are indeed made for more.

all these lecture brought to mind to me Aesop's fable—the fox and the grapes:

A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.

The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it. The first time he jumped he missed it by a long way. So he walked off a short distance and took a running leap at it, only to fall short once more. Again and again he tried, but in vain.

Now he sat down and looked at the grapes in disgust.

"What a fool I am," he said. "Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for."

And off he walked very, very scornfully.

Where are your sour grapes?

stay curious, Karam