Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Bills, bills and more bills. Yeash.I know they're a fact of life, but when rent, credit cards, phone bill, water bill and tv license all come in in at one time and effectively wipe out a whole months earnings, it's not very funny. Good job the tv lisence is annual, water is bi-annual, and phone is quarterly, coz if I got hit with that lot on a monthly basis, I'd be in trouble.
A year or so ago, I attempted to read Neitzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, having a passing interest in philpsophy, but found the thing entirely unreadable. Now, a couple of weeks ago, Andrea gave me a collection of small books that cover the basics of several of the major philosophers, including Nietzsche, so last night, I read that one.
Heh... small wonder I struggled with his stuff. Now I understand why.
I had been expecting something that made sense, and had some kind of natural flow, or direction, but it seems it was his 'style' to write in 'sound bites'... a collection of relatively unrelated revelations that though supposedly the work of a genius, didn't really create a whole... as such.
Having now fairly got my head around what it is he was saying, I find I now disagree with much of what he was saying.
His concept of 'The Superman' ,to me, is just plain bollox, and while I totally agree that "God is dead", I think he's missing the point with "The will to Power".
Yes... much of what people do is based on the urge to gain power, in whatever form that may take, however distorted it may become... but I believe even this is the will to a different thing... again, often in a distorted fashion.... it's 'the will to sex'.
Yeah, that may sound freudian, but personally, I believe it to be the case.
Anyways... this isn't really the place for me to go off on some heavy duty philisophical ramble, especially as it would require vastly too much space to detail my own thinking on the nature of things.
I've been toying with the idea of writing a book on the subject since my early 20s, and maybe one day I actually will, but I still haven't ironed out enough of my basic ideas, some of which certainly wouldn't stand up to too close a scrutiny just yet.
One day.
Steve 9:37 AM [+]
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