Nietzsche the Cryptic

In Freudian terms, man is an animal bound by himself. A prisoner that locked himself up. Freud actually believed that man cannot escape this prison, without knowing of course, and taking heed, the statement made by Friedrich W. Nietzsche decades earlier in The Birth of Tragedy or was it Thus Spoke Zarathustra – “Man is embittered, but can be made happy again, if only his demons die in hell, and he ascends to the Angels and God in Heaven.” Nietzsche felt sorrow towards man, because he was a person that related to the world more than towards himself. He was also sarcastic towards the one thing he related most to, because he realized even though he himself was alienated from himself, he did notice the "neurosis" which Freud spoke of decades later about religion being the only answer for man to subsist his stay in reality or as he puts it; Hell. That if man were to survive he should not rise higher than God or the Gods in Hellenic terms, and become the creator and destroyer of reality, because he will lose all faith in himself, and all things imaginable due to boredom, and the conviction of being truly alone among the stars which a catastrophe can surely destroy.

These are merely calculations that man as a societal concept has to embrace, where he will not die alone but as a nationalistic piece of shit dying for their great leaders and beautiful saviors. Their ideas and ideals. Their views on captivity and slavery. The embellishment of their past ways and future goals. The notion that they are beauty and sexy. That for they're women they're pretty. For they bleed they suffer. All things meant to embrace what Freud stated as the downfall of society. The notion that a President is as important as the next man, because the next man votes the President in. Without his doing of course. As if the "President" mind-fucked the voter and conspired against him and his pocket, infinitely, to garner the vote which makes him 1. immortal, 2. rich, 3. perfect. When he's not! Basically we do what we do, because someone is constantly telling us how ugly, poor, dumb, and unsophisticated we are. Magazines, anti-"social-media", television, deskjobs, consumption habits etc. Democracy enslaved us all to common trivialities which we all relate to or have to relate to: 1. "food", 2. ideas, 3. ways.

In itself the basic point is simple. Some write literally whilst others write metaphorically. Fiction and non-fiction. Prediction and acceptance. Life and death. We can only assume what philosophers like Nietzsche meant to say is that within man is an idea and that idea is what makes man man, but also that idea is what can make him not being man anymore. We call it "instinct" or lack thereof.

Supposedly Nietzsche also proclaimed that caves may contain mountains, just as mountains may contain caves. He didn't live in a dream world, but always longed for one, which he believed could not exist when the world is real as it was to him. Basically Nietzschean philosophy states that Nietzsche proclaimed the end of meaning, while trying to classify all forms of hierarchy and bureaucracy as demented sources not of lack of meaning, but the creation of it. That knowledge is the power our lords have over us, and that while we submit to knowledge we are doomed to obey their direct commands, such as to wage war or to supply crops for our granaries. He speculated that man will not refuse to obey, he will be forced to obey.

He lived a quiet life, so was not of some sorts enmeshed with the outside world as he would have liked to be. When we think back of the time of primitive living we see a world destined for the end of existence. Infinite boredom, and extended hours working (without the help of technology) to get simple tasks done, forgetting coincidentally (with our modern self-righteous wisdom) that we are already sharing a world with those who may seem primitive to us, though funnily enough, they are also human, and also alive, in this same world, able to sustain and nourish themselves, even better, than ourselves.

Nietzsche realized that news of any sorts is merely gossip, so he longed for some fresh inspiration from his friends that ultimately bored him to such an extent that he classified them all as ignorant fools that only know how to talk and not to think. Of course they thought him foolish for making such statements, but what Nietzsche actually wanted, was for them to create a reality for him that he does not know, yet instead only held onto a “safe” reality which they cannot and do not want to escape. That is why substance abuse is running rife in our society today for to escape to another world only temporarily is better than living in the real world permanently. Whether that is wise or not, is besides the point, though Nietzsche knew that the escape towards freedom is more of an escape towards captivity, for an animal beset by laziness, and apathy, and comfort is destined to prefer enslavement than liberation.

He was not an activist or a revolutionary, though he has inspired many to escape the search for luxury to supplement it with a stoic mindset and goal. Some may argue that Nietzsche was enforcing a code of conduct upon people, making him a control-freak. Though he was not, and he did not believe freedom was to have the option of infinite choices at hand, but rather having the inclination to not relate to the world as a humanist, even if it may be considered a noble effort by some. He has actually envisioned the drive by society to cast the philosophers out of their lives and minds to not be shown what not to do, what not to say, and what not to believe. Though some may perceive Nietzsche as a provocative guy arguing with the lot of them, which was actually the opposite. He just shook his head in disbelief and wondered what may have come from it if he lost his cool. His ire. His desire. For peace, and understanding.